Gustab Wenbus

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Gustab Wenbus was a fearless alien racer who started the modern age of podracing[1] around a century before the Galactic Civil War[2] by entering himself into an event on the planet Malastare with a super-fast podracer designed by the rogue mechanic Phoebos.[1] Rather than the animal-drawn carts or Hanno Speeders used in most races at the time,[3] Gustab's virtually untested pod[1] combined a repulsorlift pod with flaming jet engines.[3]

The famous first experimental race ensured podracing's reputation as a popular and incredibly dangerous sport,[4] and Wenbus, who also worked as a mechanic and race promoter, then developed the sport and set up the first circuits. He standardized the configuration of podracers as being[2] Phoebos's design[4] of a small repulsorlift-driven cockpit connected by flexible control cables to a pair of massive turbine, plasma, or rocket engines that were joined by a pair of plasma energy binders.[2]

Behind the scenes

In the current Star Wars canon, Gustab Wenbus was first mentioned in "Podracing on Tatooine," an article[3] written by Tim Veekhoven[5] in the "Guide to the Galaxy" department of the fifty-first issue of De Agostini's Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine series,[3] which was published around December 23, 2015.[6] The character originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where he was first mentioned in the 2000 reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I, which was written by Kristin Lund.[7]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Star Wars: Complete Locations
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Endless Vigil
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 51 Guide to the Galaxy: Podracing on Tatooine
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars Complete Vehicles, New Edition
  5. ↑ Direct message from Tim Veekhoven — Used with permission
  6. ↑ The second issue of the De Agostini weekly magazine Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon was set to be published on January 14, 2015, according to Premium-Era-real De Agostini Publishing: Build the Millennium Falcon Magazine & Model by Chris Wyman on TheForce.net (January 8, 2015) (backup link archived on November 6, 2016). Therefore, Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 51 was published around December 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I
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