Joben Crate Company

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"Crates?!!? I hate 'em. Worst thing that ever happened to the universe. And did you know that there are people mass producing them? I could not believe it."
―Riyan Kiner to a spacer[1]

The Joben Crate Company was a Corellian manufacturing company near Coronet that produced crates. It was owned by Talan Joben.[1]

History

"I just said...someone has attacked my company and destroyed my precious crates. That's what happened."
―Talan Joben, to a spacer[1]
The crate manufacturing site after the attack

The crate manufacturing site after the attack

By the time of the Battle of Yavin, the Joben Crate Company manufactured crates that were sold throughout the galaxy.[1]

In 1 ABY,[2] the company was attacked and many of their crate manufacturing machines as well as most crates were destroyed. A spacer investigated this attack for Corellia Times reporter Vani Korr to find out if this was the work of the machine-hating Meatlumps. The spacer found a datapad among the destroyed machines with a message saying that bombs had been planted in Joben-brand crates and placed near hotels on several planets. The adventurer located all the bombs just in time and also found evidence that led to the culprit of these terrorist attempts: the insane retired adventurer Riyan Kiner, who had targeted the company because of his boundless hate of crates.[1]

Behind the scenes

The Joben Crate Company appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[3] The Joben Crate Company was added to the game with the update dubbed "Chapter 10: The Search for the Meatlump King," released on June 19, 2008.[4]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "The Meatlumps Hideout, Part 1" on Corellia
  2. ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  3. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  4. ↑ Gal-icon Chapter 10: The Search for the Meatlump King on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)

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