HoloNet News was an official Star Wars website that was created as part of the marketing campaign for the 2002 theatrical release of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. The site consisted of various in-universe news articles detailing galactic events leading up to the beginning of the film.
In addition to coverage of major events with a clear bearing on what occurs in Attack of the Clones, the site includes a number of articles that tie into other elements of the Expanded Universe. Many of the articles also contain numerous in-jokes and other obscure references. In addition to being available as a website on the internet, the contents of the site was was said to have been archived and released as DVD-ROM content on disc one of the 2002 DVD release of Attack of the Clones.[1] No such feature was ever included however.
The site and its articles were authored by Pablo Hidalgo and Paul Ens, with illustrations by Joe Corroney.
In October 2013, the HoloNet News website was shut down and its contents were redirected to StarWars.com.
Contents
Twelve issues were published, all of which were part of volume 531. Each issue and article is given an in-universe date based on the Great ReSynchronization dating system.
HoloNetNews.com is divided into seven subsections:
- News
- Business
- Regional
- Jedi Watch
- Sports
- Life
- Archive
In addition, one section allowed for a five-day Weather Forecast based on a six digit planet code that was entered. The link will produce a random weather page regardless of the digits or even if no numbers are entered. High and low temperatures and weather graphics would display, alongside a written report that would detail problems and warnings such as coronal flaring that could end in mass unicellular extinctions, recommendations of EM shielding, seismic shifting, or frog showers.
Media
Issues
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #45 — February 28, 2002[2]
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #46 — March 7, 2002[3]
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #47 — March 14, 2002[4]
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #48 — March 21, 2002[5]
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #49 — March 28, 2002[6]
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #50 — April 4, 2002[7]
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #51 — April 11, 2002[8]
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #52 — April 18, 2002[9]
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #53 — April 25, 2002[10]
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #54 — May 2, 2002[11]
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #55 — May 9, 2002[12]
- HoloNet News Vol. 531 #56 — May 16, 2002[13]
Content gallery
Legacy
The site was replaced with entries of Republic HoloNet News in Star Wars Insider 65.
On October 3, 2008, StarWars.com began continuing HoloNet News in an audio format, designed to follow the events of The Clone Wars TV series.[14]
Sources
"Ask the Master" — Star Wars Insider 91- Dusting Off the Archives: Original HoloNet News Pitch on Fragments From the Mind's Eye — Pablo Hidalgo's StarWars.com Blog (original site is defunct)
- Star Wars: Build Your Own R2-D2 92 Building the Galaxy: No Time to Rest
Notes and references
- ↑ Homing Beacon #73 - Unlocking dvd.starwars.com on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Per The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by IAmTheDarkSide) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (March 14, 2002) (backup link), HoloNet News Vol. 531 #47 was released on March 14, 2002. As HoloNet News segments were published weekly, and A Closer Look — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #45 (original site is defunct) was published two issues prior, it must have been released on February 28 of the same year.
- ↑ Per The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by IAmTheDarkSide) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (March 14, 2002) (backup link), HoloNet News Vol. 531 #47 was released on March 14, 2002. As HoloNet News segments were published weekly, and Jedi Refuse to Hand Over Baby Ludi — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #46 (original site is defunct) was published in the issue immediately preceding the forty-seventh edition, it must have been released on March 7 of the same year.
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by IAmTheDarkSide) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (March 14, 2002) (backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by PrinceXizor) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (March 21, 2002) (backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by Dev Sibwarra) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (March 28, 2002) (backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by Mavrick889) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (April 4, 2002) (backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by MattPeriolat) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (April 11, 2002) (backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by IAmTheDarkSide) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (April 18, 2002) (backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by Mastadge) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (April 25, 2002) (backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by IAmTheDarkSide) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (May 2, 2002) (backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by IAmTheDarkSide) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (May 9, 2002) (backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread (post by ForceAlly) on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (May 16, 2002) (backup link)
- ↑ HoloNet News — A Galaxy Divided on StarWars.com (backup link) (original site is defunct)
External links
- HoloNetNews.com — HoloNet News Vol. 531 (original site is defunct) (Final version)
- The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread on the Jedi Council Forums' Literature board (backup link)