Noctur'lan

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"It looks like I did a good job with the nightspider cleanup, because my next assignment is to hunt a ferocious nightspider known as Noctur'lan. This will not be easy."
―Jonthol Mazoon[1]

Noctur'lan was a giant nightspider who lived on Naboo during the Galactic Civil War. It lived in the Eastern Great Grass Plains, near the city of Kaadara. Royal Naboo Security Forces agent Jonthol Mazoon was once tasked to eliminate Noctur'lan but he failed to kill the creature and was injured. At some point after the death of Jonthol Mazoon, a spacer killed Noctur'lan.[1]

Behind the scenes

Noctur'lan appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[3] Noctur'lan was added to the game as part of the "Legacy Quest" with the release of the "Publish 25", a.k.a. the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005.[4]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "The Life and Death of Jonni Skaak" on Naboo
  2. ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  3. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  4. ↑ Gal-icon Publish Archive 2005 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)