Cygnus B system

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The Cygnus B system,[3] also referred to as the Cygnus system,[2] was located in the Esaga sector,[1] a part of the Slice portion of[2] the Mid Rim.[1] The system shared its name with the starship manufacturer Cygnus Spaceworks. That company was based in the Cygnus Star Empire, a small collection of worlds situated along the Mid Rim's Oktos Route hyperlane that were believed by the xenolinguist Doctor Milanda Vorgan to have been ceded as a bribe by the Hutt Clan-General Kossak Inijic Ar'durv to the allies of[4] the Hutt Empire's[2] enemy Xim the Despot during the conflict between Xim and the Hutts[4] twenty-five millennia before the Battle of Yavin.[2]

The Cygnus B system was home to giant algae-beds—immobile, sentient life-forms that were classified as a super-brain.[3] By 0 BBY,[5] Luke Skywalker, a young man from[6] the Outer Rim Territories planet[2] Tatooine, had seen pictures of the giant algae-beds from the Cygnus B system.[6]

Behind the scenes

The Cygnus B system was created by John Chesterman for "Cantina Communications," a one-page vignette included in the sixteenth issue of the Star Wars Official Poster Monthly magazine, published in 1979 by Paradise Press.[6] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas provided a shortened designation for the system and placed it in grid square R-11.[2]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 StarWars.com Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 The Essential Atlas
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 StarWars.com Welcome to the Star Wars Jungle on StarWars.com (backup link) (original link is obsolete)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 HyperspaceIcon The Written Word on Hyperspace (article) (content obsolete and backup link not available)
  5. ↑ The events of "Cantina Communications" take place during Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi's visit to Mos Eisley, which is depicted in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and dated to 0 BBY by The New Essential Chronology.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Cantina Communications" — Star Wars Official Poster Monthly 16
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