Phoebos

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Phoebos was a daring[1] and rogue mechanic who,[2] around a century before the Galactic Civil War,[3] recreated the design of hand-drawn animal racing carts with modern technology for a whole new level of competition and risk.[1] The design of the superfast prototype podracer[2] replaced the cart[4] with a repulsorpod[1] and the animals[4] with flaming jet engines,[1] with a repulsorlift allowing the vehicle to hover.[4]

The prototype was entered virtually untested into an event on the planet Malastare by the racer Gustab Wenbus, for whom Phoebos had designed the vehicle.[2] The famous first experimental race ensured podracing's reputation as an incredibly dangerous and popular sport, with Wenbus going on to develop the practice and standardize[3] Phoebos's design[1] for podracers.[3]

Behind the scenes

In the current Star Wars canon, Phoebos was first mentioned in "Podracing on Tatooine," an article[5] written by Tim Veekhoven[6] in the "Guide to the Galaxy" department of the fifty-first issue of De Agostini's Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine series,[5] which was published around December 23, 2015.[7] The Phoebos originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where the character was first mentioned in the 2000 reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I, which was written by Kristin Lund.[8] The 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations misspells the character's name as Phoebus.[2]

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Star Wars Complete Vehicles, New Edition
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Star Wars: Complete Locations
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Endless Vigil
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 StarWars.com Star Wars Inside Intel: Podracing on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 51 Guide to the Galaxy: Podracing on Tatooine
  6. ↑ Direct message from Tim Veekhoven — Used with permission
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I
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