Douglas system

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The Douglas system was a part of the Centrality sector in the Slice portion of the Outer Rim Territories. It was situated at the endpoint of the Falko Run hyperlane, which linked it to the Paulking system.[1] The third orbital position in the star system was occupied by[2] the terrestrial[3] planet Douglas III. The Douglas system was named after the famous hunter Mendel Douglas, who traversed Douglas III[2] at some point by 3 BBY[4] in order to hunt down the planet's elusive jackelope creature, but he never returned from the expedition.[2]

Behind the scenes

The Douglas system was first mentioned in "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder Where We Are," a 1990 roleplaying game source article published in the thirteenth issue of the Voyages SF magazine,[5] based on the mention of Douglas III in Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu, the 1983 first entry in the The Lando Calrissian Adventures trilogy of novels written by L. Neil Smith.[6] "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder Where We Are" placed the system in the Jospro sector.[5] The article is considered noncanonical with respect to the Star Wars Legends continuity.[7]

In 1998, Douglas III, and therefore the Douglas system, made its first appearance in the video game Star Wars: Rebellion, which also placed it in the Jospro sector.[3] The Wizards of the Coast roleplaying game source article "A Campaign Guide to the Centrality"—authored by Michael Kogge and published in the fifth issue of the Star Wars Gamer magazine[2] on July 24, 2001[8]—marked the first time the name of the Douglas system was featured in a Star Wars source canonical with respect to Legends.[2] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the system in grid square U-8.[1]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 The Essential Atlas
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 SWGamer-icon "A Campaign Guide to the Centrality" — Star Wars Gamer 5
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars: Rebellion
  4. ↑ The Essential Reader's Companion dates the events of The Lando Calrissian Adventures novel trilogy, of which Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu is the first installment, between 3 BBY and 2 BBY. Since by the time of the events of Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu Douglas III had already been named and since SWGamer-icon "A Campaign Guide to the Centrality" — Star Wars Gamer 5 establishes that that name honored Mendel Douglas, who had visited the planet, Douglas's visit to Douglas III must have occurred at some point by 3 BBY.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Voyages "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder Where We Are" — Voyages SF 13
  6. ↑ Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
  7. ↑ Email from Jason Fry on July 9, 2012 — Used with permission. Lucasfilm treats material from the various unlicensed roleplaying game magazines as non-canonical with respect to the Star Wars Legends continuity, with the only exceptions being the existence of those worlds and star systems that are referenced in The Essential Atlas and its StarWars.com Online Companion, and any other details that were referenced in, and thus canonized by, an official source.
  8. ↑ StarWars.com Gamer #5. A Domain of Evil it is. on StarWars.com (original site is defunct)
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