Giju system

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The Giju system was a star system located in Herglic Space within the Colonies and the Interior. It contained the planet Giju and was part of the Giju Run, the Herglic Alley, and the Rimma Trade Route. In 0 ABY, three members of Red Squadron escorted a transport carrying a group of underground Alliance to Restore the Republic leaders off Giju and through the Giju system. The rebels engaged Imperial TIE fighters in combat before they and the transport successfully escaped the system.

Description

The Giju system was a star system in Herglic Space within the Colonies[1] and the Interior.[2] It fell within grid square L-13 of the Standard Galactic Grid.[1] The system acted as a terminal for the Giju Run hyperspace route, which connected the Giju system to[4] the Bardotta system.[6] The Giju system was also part of the Herglic Alley route, which connected it to the Byblos system,[5] on the Corellian Run. The Rimma Trade Route,[6] a super-hyperroute,[7] connected the Giju ststem to Dentaal system and the Ghorman system.[6]

History

Due to the Herglic Alley's connection between the Rimma Trade Route and the Corellian Run, numerous travelers ended up at Giju during journeys across the galaxy.[8] By 10 BBY,[9] the pirate queen Maz Kanata had marked the Giju system as a location of interest on a map in the book known as the Smuggler's Guide.[5]

In 0 ABY,[10] a transport carrying a group of underground Alliance to Restore the Republic leaders left Giju in order to evacuate those on board ahead of agents of the Galactic Empire. The transport was escorted through the Giju system by three members of the rebel Red Squadron of X-wing starfighters. When the group encountered a patrol of TIE fighters amidst the system's space lanes, a firefight broke out between the two groups and many of the other starships on the lanes above Giju, including two freight tenders and a line of bulk freighters, moved to avoid the fight as quickly as possible as more Imperial forces arrived.[3]

The sheer amount of traffic in the Giju system provided numerous places for enemy vessels to hide, but the rebels still managed to destroy several TIEs before the transport they were protecting safely jumped to hyperspace. Following scatter protocol, the free X-wings then individually jumped to hyperspace, with the rebel pilot Luke Skywalker traveling to the nearby planet Devaron by following a randomly chosen zigzag pattern of jumps.[3]

At some point between 33 ABY and 34 ABY,[11] the protocol droid C-3PO told Resistance pilot Jessika Pava a story about Red Squadron's mission in the Giju system.[3] The Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs visited Giju during a culinary tour of the galaxy that he took[8] between 34 ABY and 35 ABY.[12]

Behind the scenes

In the current Star Wars canon, the Giju system first appeared in the 2015 novel The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure, which was written by Jason Fry.[3] It was then depicted for the first time in the first part of the comic adaptation of the novel, which was written by Alec Worley, illustrated by Ruairí Coleman, and published in Star Wars Magazine 19[13] on March 29, 2017.[14] The system was first identified in "Star Systems of the Galaxy," an appendix published with the Star Wars Galaxy Map article on StarWars.com[1] on June 24, 2025. Both were written by Fry.[15]

The system originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens — Enemies and Allies, a 1995 supplement for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game published by West End Games.[16] The system was then depicted for the first time in the 2005 reference book The New Essential Chronology, which was written by Daniel Wallace.[17] The Giju system's first full Legends appearance then occured during a flashback in Purge – Seconds to Die, a comic book written by John Ostrander, illustrated by Jim Hall, and published by Dark Horse Comics[18] on November 11, 2009.[19]

Appearances

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Star Wars Galaxy Map poster places the Giju system in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Interior.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars Galaxy Map poster. This assumes that the name "Giju Run," as used in Nexus of Power, applies to the canon hyperspace route depicted on the map that matches the depiction of the Star Wars Legends route with the same name in The Essential Atlas per BlueskyLogo Jason Fry (@jasoncfry.bsky.social.) on Bluesky (post on January 3, 2025): "They are indeed the same. Same galaxy, same map. In the rare event something needs to be changed, it will be discussed. (In response to: Hi @jasoncfry.bsky.social, was hoping you could confirm for Wookieepedia purposes that the hyperspace routes depicted on the Galaxy Map given out at Celebration are intended to be the same routes as in Legends. Sorry to bother, but would make our lives much easier to have it confirmed!)" (screenshot).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Star Wars Galaxy Map poster
  7. ↑ Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 29 Guide to the Galaxy: Major Trade Routes
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Star Wars: The Ultimate Cookbook
  9. ↑ The entry in Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide mentioning the Giju system is placed chronologically prior to an entry written by Tobias Beckett. Star Wars: Timelines dates Beckett's death to 10 BBY, and so his entry in the guide and those chronologically before it must all be set by 10 BBY.
  10. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the main events of The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure to 0 ABY.
  11. ↑ The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure depicts the droid C-3PO with a red arm. Star Wars: Timelines establishes that he acquired this arm in 33 ABY and replaced it with a golden arm in 34 ABY.
  12. ↑ Star Wars: The Ultimate Cookbook establishes that the publishing of the in-universe The Ultimate Cookbook and the culinary tour that preceded it occurred following the publishing of The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook and prior to the destruction of Kijimi. It also establishes that The Ultimate Cookbook was published following the Festival of the Ancestors that occurred during that time period. Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook further establishes that The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook was published concurrently with the First Order's search for the Resistance base on Batuu, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 34 ABY. In addition, Timelines dates the Festival of the Ancestors and the destruction of Kijimi to 35 ABY, meaning the tour must have taken place between 34 ABY and 35 ABY and The Ultimate Cookbook must have been published in 35 ABY.
  13. ↑ "The Weapon of a Jedi, Part 1" — Star Wars Magazine 19
  14. ↑ Panini-Template Star Wars - Magazin 19 on Panini's official German website (backup link)
  15. ↑ Substack-Favicon About That New Star Wars Galaxy Map… by Jason Fry (@jasonfry) on Substack (June 24, 2025) (backup link)
  16. ↑ Dark Force Rising Sourcebook
  17. ↑ The New Essential Chronology
  18. ↑ Purge – Seconds to Die
  19. ↑ Marvel-TemplateLogo Star Wars: Purge - Seconds to Die (2009) #1 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)