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"And Tenke, he was with you when that detonator exploded on Ottega. He didn't make it out."
―Drake Paulsen, to Toob Ancher[4]

Ottega was a Mid Rim planet located in the Ottega system of the Ottega sector. Situated on the Celanon Spur hyperlane, it hosted a warehouse in which, around 3 BBY, a would-be bounty hunter set up a booby-trap using a faulty homemade thermal detonator. When the explosive detonated it left the smuggler Toob Ancher without his left eye, his brother Karl Mathieu Ancher in need of a cybernetic leg implant, and seven other people dead, including the bounty hunter themself.

Description

Ottega was a notable[5] terrestrial planet that had three moons and occupied the third orbital position around the star Ottega in the star system of the same name.[2] It was situated in the Lesser Plooriod Cluster[3] and the Ottega sector[1] within the New Territories portion of[2] the Mid Rim.[1] Along with the rest of the Ottega system, Ottega was located on the Celanon Spur hyperlane, which connected it to the Orocco system as well as the Noonian system of the Outer Rim Territories' Noonian sector.[1] The planet shared its name with the starship Ottega Dawn[6] as well as the Ottegan mead beverage[7] and the Ottegan silk material.[8]

History

"You're starting to sound like my brother—careful, calculating… dull."
"It wouldn't hurt for you to take a few lessons. If you had listened to him, you would never have gone to that warehouse on Ottega."
―Toob Ancher and Drake Paulsen[4]
Toob Ancher was injured by a thermal detonator explosion on Ottega.

Toob Ancher was injured by a thermal detonator explosion on Ottega.

Between approximately 12,000 BBY and 11,000 BBY, Ottega constituted a part of Wild Space.[1] Around 3 BBY,[9] the smuggler Toob Ancher planned to visit a warehouse on Ottega, a plan that his brother Karl Mathieu Ancher unsuccessfully tried to dissuade him from. Toob was subsequently accompanied there by both Karl and the smuggler Tenke Hurn.[4]

At the warehouse, a would-be bounty hunter had booby-trapped a bulkhead with a faulty homemade thermal detonator. When the explosive went off, it blew away Toob's left eye, left Karl in need of a cybernetic leg implant, and killed seven other people,[10] including Hurn[4] and the bounty hunter themself.[10] Toob eventually told Drake Paulsen, the son of the smuggler Kaine Paulsen, of the visit to the Ottega warehouse, and when Toob was affected by memory loss and delusions caused by the Bitter Winter disease[4] in 0 ABY,[11] Drake reminded the afflicted smuggler of that fact.[4]

Behind the scenes

Ottega was first mentioned in Star Wars Adventure Journal 5.

Ottega was first mentioned in Star Wars Adventure Journal 5.

Ottega was first mentioned in the short story "A Bitter Winter," which was written by Patricia A. Jackson and published in the February 1995 fifth issue of West End Games' Star Wars Adventure Journal magazine.[4] Stephen J. Sansweet's 1998 Star Wars Encyclopedia then retroactively established that Ottega was one of the seventy-five planets of the Ottega system,[3] which had already been mentioned before in Bill Slavicsek's 1994 A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded.[12]

"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder Where We Are," a 1990 roleplaying source article published in the thirteenth issue of the Voyages SF magazine, placed the Ottega system, and therefore Ottega, in the "Tion" sector. Since that article was released outside of the Lucas Licensing process,[13] it was considered non-canonical with respect to the Star Wars Legends continuity.[14] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas subsequently placed Ottega in grid square M-6, far from the Tion Cluster[2] and the trio of sectors into which it was divided.[15] The StarWars.com Online Companion to the book further overrode the Voyages SF 13 placement by establishing that the system was situated in the Ottega sector.[16] In addition, The Essential Atlas placed the Ottega system in the Mid Rim,[2] thus overriding the earlier placement of the system in the Outer Rim Territories by A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded.[12]

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Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 The Essential Guide to Warfare — Based on corresponding data for Ottega system
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 The Essential Atlas
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars Encyclopedia
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 SWAJsmall "A Bitter Winter" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 5
  5. ↑ A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded
  6. ↑ StarWars.com So Uncivilized: Great Gunslingers in Star Wars Part 1 on StarWars.com (original link is obsolete)
  7. ↑ SWAJsmall "Counterstrike" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 8
  8. ↑ X-Wing: Isard's Revenge
  9. ↑ The Essential Reader's Companion dates the events of SWAJsmall "Out of the Cradle" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 2, which occur nearly a month after Toob Ancher's loss of eye to a thermal detonator, to 3 BBY.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 SWAJsmall "Out of the Cradle" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 2
  11. ↑ The Essential Reader's Companion dates the events of SWAJsmall "A Bitter Winter" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 5 to 0 ABY.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
  13. ↑ Voyages "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder Where We Are" — Voyages SF 13
  14. ↑ Email from Jason Fry on July 9, 2012 — Used with permission. Lucasfilm treats material from the various unlicensed roleplaying game magazines as non-canonical with respect to the Star Wars Legends continuity, with the only exceptions being the existence of those worlds and star systems that are referenced in The Essential Atlas and its StarWars.com Online Companion, and any other details that were referenced in, and thus canonized by, an official source.
  15. ↑ StarWars.com Essential Atlas Extra: The History of Xim and the Tion Cluster on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
  16. ↑ StarWars.com Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
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