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The planetary ring around D'Qar.
A planetary ring (or simply ring) was a circular band of small bodies orbiting around a planet in a flat disc-shaped region.[1]
Description
Planetary rings could be formed from the remnants of satellites, such as the silica ring of the planet Lah'mu, which were created after one of its moons was pulverized.[2] The rings revolving around Geonosis[3] and Bothawui were rocky in nature,[4] while the planet Minfar had a ring made of ice.[5] Planets could have multiple sets of rings, exemplified by a gas giant in the Unknown Regions.[6] It was also possible for moons themselves to possess rings; one of the moons of the planet Brendok had a ring system.[7]
Although ring systems could constitute navigational hazards,[8] some were mined for metal ore.[9] The rings of the gas giant Hudalla were some of the largest in the galaxy.[1] The ring of the planet Tiferep Major was disrupted when the wreckage-prison Accresker Jail fell through it.[10]
In a distant galaxy, the planetary ring in the orbit of the extragalactic planet Peridea was a graveyard made up of purrgil bones.[11]
Appearances
Sources
- Ultimate Star Wars
- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
- Star Wars Day-at-a-Time Calendar 2022 (Picture only)
Aeos Prime in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)- Geonosis in the Databank (backup link)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lost Stars
- ↑ Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
- ↑ Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- ↑
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Downfall of a Droid"
- ↑ Spark of the Resistance
- ↑ Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising
- ↑
Star Wars: The Acolyte — "The Acolyte"
- ↑ Ultimate Star Wars
- ↑ Lords of the Sith
- ↑ Doctor Aphra (2016) 25
- ↑
Star Wars: Ahsoka — "Part Seven: Dreams and Madness"
