Holoporn

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"Beldorion has drafted me into editing and retaping his formidable library of Huttese pornography."
―Liegeus Vorn[3]

Holoporn was a holographic form of pornography that could be found on black markets of worlds affiliated with the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire between 0 ABY and 4 ABY. Around 10 ABY, the Kailio Entertainments corporation and Lucin Syndicate were involved in legal and illegal holoporn respectively. By 13 ABY, the Hutt Beldorion owned a formidable library of holographic Huttese pornography, for which he hired the holo faker Liegeus Vorn to edit and retape.

Description

Holoporn was pornography in the form of holograms. Some holoporn was legal, but illegal holoporn existed as well.[1]

History

The following section contains information from a Star Wars Tales 1–20 story that was referenced in no other Star Wars Legends source. Lucasfilm considered all Tales 1–20 content that was not "completely outrageous or intentionally comic" to have some level of canonicity within the Legends continuity. Editor discretion is advised.
"I've gotta shipment of holographic Hutt-smut that absolutely, positively must be delivered overnight to the Kurluvion system. They just love Hutt-smut there, can't get enough."
―A Snivvian[4]

In 0 BBY,[5] the smuggler Han Solo was approached by a Snivvian while looking for prospective clients in[4] Chalmun's Cantina in the Mos Eisley spaceport on the planet Tatooine.[6] The Snivvian claimed that they had a shipment of Hutt holoporn to be delivered to the Kurluvion system, telling the smuggler that the system's population loved holographic Hutt pornography. Solo informed the Snivvian that[4] he[6] had integrity and considered being frozen in carbonite preferable to smuggling Hutt holoporn, declining the job offer.[4]

Star Wars Tales 1–20 information ends here.
Kailio Entertainments (logo pictured) was a holoporn distributor.

Kailio Entertainments (logo pictured) was a holoporn distributor.

It was possible to find pornographic holos on black markets of planets either affiliated with the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire[7] or located near the Rebellion's bases[2] between 0 ABY and 4 ABY.[8] Between 0 ABY and approximately 1 ABY,[9] a Twi'lek watched a hologram of[10] the virtual reality[11] woman Mermeia[12] dancing.[10]

Around 10 ABY,[13] the Hutt-owned Kailio Entertainments was a distributor for one of the galaxy's biggest holoporn industries and the Lucin Syndicate ran a major Outer Rim Territories production and distribution center of illegal holographic pornography on the planet Majilop.[1] By 13 ABY,[14] the Hutt ruler of the planet Nam Chorios, Beldorion, was in possession of a formidable collection of Huttese holoporn, commissioning the Human holo faker Liegeus Vorn to edit and retape his library.[3] That year,[14] Vorn told the New Republic representative Leia Organa Solo about it and confessed that even his previous job of ghost-writing love poems for Gamorreans did not make him as scared.[3]

Behind the scenes

Holoporn was first mentioned in the Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game sourcebook Galaxy Guide 6: Tramp Freighters, written by Mark Rein-Hagen and Stewart Wieck and published by West End Games in 1990,[7] and identified as such in the Galaxy Guide 11: Criminal Organizations sourcebook for the same roleplaying game, written by Rick D. Stuart and published by West End Games in 1994.[1]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Galaxy Guide 11: Criminal Organizations
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Galaxy Guide 6: Tramp Freighters, Second Edition
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Planet of Twilight
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 StarWarsTales-Icon "Smuggler's Blues" — Star Wars Tales 14
  5. ↑ "Smuggler's Blues" takes place concurrently with the portion of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope that The New Essential Chronology places in 0 BBY.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Star Wars: Complete Locations, 2005 edition
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Galaxy Guide 6: Tramp Freighters
  8. ↑ Galaxy Guide 6: Tramp Freighters and its second edition are both set between the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, which corresponds to between 0 ABY and 4 ABY per The New Essential Chronology.
  9. ↑ The Threat of the Conqueror expansion of Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game takes place at some point during Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided's events, which are set between 0 ABY and approximately 1 ABY per the reasoning here.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game — Threat of the Conqueror Card: Thought as Action (backup link)
  11. ↑ SWInsider "The Star Wars Holiday Special" — Star Wars Insider 23
  12. ↑ SWInsider "I Have a Bad Feeling About This!" — Star Wars Insider 106
  13. ↑ Galaxy Guide 11: Criminal Organizations is set around six years after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, which The New Essential Chronology dates to 4 ABY.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 The Essential Reader's Companion dates the events of Planet of Twilight to 13 ABY.