Ginn Jump

This article is about the Star Wars Legends location. You may be looking for the canon individual Ares Ginn.

The Ginn Jump was a part of the Arrowhead region, in the Slice portion of the Core Worlds. At some point between the collapse of the Infinite Empire around 25,200 BBY and the foundation of the Galactic Republic^[1] in 25,053 BBY,^[2] a Duros hyperspatial physicist romantically—yet relatively inaccurately—proclaimed the Ginn Jump and the star systems of Coruscant, Corellia, and Alderaan—which had long been inhabited by Humans—as the four "vertices" of a region of space that resembled a tetrahedron and was thus accordingly named the Tetrahedron.^[1]

Behind the scenes

"The four vertices of the Tetrahedron are Coruscant, Alderaan, Corellia, and the 'Ginn Jump,' which throws a bone to the fact that we're talking about three-dimensional space even though it's a pretty sloppy tetrahedron (acknowledged as such in the text)."

―Daniel Wallace^[3]

The Ginn Jump was first mentioned in the 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas, authored by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry, which placed it in grid square L-10.^[1] Wallace noted in his personal blog that the mention of the four vertices of the Tetrahedron region, which include the Ginn Jump, was meant as a reference to the fact that the Star Wars galaxy was, in fact, three-dimensional^[3] despite The Essential Atlas generally only presenting two-dimensional maps of it for simplicity's sake.^[4]