Cygnus Star Empire

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"Outside the region, the small Cygnus Star Empire lies along on the Oktos Route in the Mid Rim, just coreward of Hutt Space. A handful of marginal worlds only a few parsecs apart, this Empire is believed to have once been the heart of a generous bribe made by the Hutt Clan-General, Kossak, that led several of Xim's allies to defect. Like their cousins in the Tion Cluster, the people there still use Tionese for special occasions."
―Extract from a history of the Tionese language first published in the Imperial Period[1]

The Cygnus Star Empire was an interplanetary state that straddled the Oktos Route in the Mid Rim and lay immediately coreward of Hutt Space.

History

The Star Empire was located on the Oktos Route in the Mid Rim. The region consisted of a handful of systems a few parsecs wide. Due to its closeness to Hutt Space, just coreward of the region, it was believed to have originally been a bribe offered to several of Xim's allies by the Hutt warlord Kossak during the Xim Wars.

The Cygnus Spaceworks ship manufacturers were headquartered within the empire's domain, and the region was known to use Tionese lettering, much like the Cluster itself.

Behind the scenes

The Cygnus Star Empire apparently originates in the fan-made work Book of Imperial Shuttle Plans: Cygnus Spaceworks, published almost two decades before the name was referenced in Legends material. In Imperial Shuttle Plans, the Cygnus Star Empire was associated with Cygnus Spaceworks and a Cygnus system. The Spaceworks was later referenced in Legends, in the Star Wars Technical Journal and the video game Star Wars: TIE Fighter. A "human Star Empire" was mentioned in the unlicensed 1998 InQuest Gamer #39 article "Terminators: Five Movie Monsters to Torment Your PCs" by Kenneth Hite.[2]

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ HyperspaceIcon The Written Word on Hyperspace (article) (content obsolete and backup link not available)
  2. ↑ InQuest 39 - "Terminators: Five Movie Monsters to Torment Your PCs"