Athio Seven Hundred

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"You know, you could watch podracing with me instead, I won't tell the Jedi Council. The Athio Seven Hundred is coming up."
―Anakin Skywalker, to Obi-Wan Kenobi via comlink[4]

The Athio Seven Hundred was a podrace[4] held in the vicinity of[2] the Outer Rim Territories' Athio system[3] and was held during or after 22 BBY. That year,[1] Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi—who was on a mission on the planet Cato Neimoidia—revealed to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker via comlink that he had been working with the information broker Dexter Jettster. Skywalker replied that Kenobi should instead spend his free time watching podracing with him, noting that the Athio Seven Hundred was soon and promising not to tell the Jedi Council.[4]

Behind the scenes

The Athio Seven Hundred was mentioned in the 2022 novel Brotherhood, written by Mike Chen.[4]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Brotherhood, during which Anakin Skywalker states that the Athio Seven Hundred is "coming up," to 22 BBY.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Essential Atlas and Galactic Cartography: Official Discussion (post by jasonfry) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (October 12, 2008): "I'd call Gendrah-Narvin and Erhynradd star systems -- I err on the side of star systems unless there's evidence to the contrary. (In reply to: "Jason, is Gendrah-Narvin a city country, star, or planet?")" (backup link) Jason Fry, co-author of The Essential Atlas and a number of maps in the current Star Wars canon (see a list here), and his Atlas co-author Daniel Wallace, stated their intention to create the approximate locations for numerous events based on context implied from their names. Given this principle, this article makes a similar basic assumption for Athio Seven Hundred in relation to the Athio system.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Brotherhood