Setor

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"Sir, I wish you could see dawn touching this moon with your own eyes—after our persecutions, after our exile, after our long sufferings, the Colony has at last a homeland to rival—and I believe, even to surpass—old Setor."
―Lile Gorsek, report to Commander Deffan[2]

Setor was a Colonies world. A group of colonists were persecuted on, and then exiled from, Setor nearly a decade before the Battle of Yavin. The colonists intended to settle the Outer Rim Territories world Wetyin's Colony but changes in financial support from the Galactic Empire left them virtually abandoned. The colonists then searched for a new homeworld, and the scout Lile Gorsek eventually became convinced that the moon Yavin 4 would over time allow the Wetyin's Colony's inhabitants to rival and even surpass their original home, Setor.

Description

Setor was a world[2] located in the Setor system, a part of the Northern Dependencies portion of the Colonies.[1]

History

Colonists from Setor intended to settle Wetyin's Colony.

Colonists from Setor intended to settle Wetyin's Colony.

Nearly a decade before the Battle of Yavin, a group of colonists[1] were exiled from Setor[2] after suffering persecution.[3] The colonists were sent to the world Wetyin's Colony, in the Outer Rim Territories' Gordian Reach, with bulk freighters filled with grain seed and embryos of the nerf creatures. The Galactic Empire also granted the Setor exiles title to all agriculturally-promising uninhabited worlds of the Gordian Reach; however, the change in the budgets of the Imperial ministries then left the colonists virtually abandoned on Wetyin's Colony.[1]

Eventually, scouts from Wetyin's Colony searched for a new homeworld for their people.[4] When the scout Lile Gorsek sent a report on an initial flyover of the jungle moon Yavin 4 to Commander Deffan of Wetyin's Colony, the former expressed confidence that that celestial body would eventually allow the colonists to rival and even eclipse Setor itself.[2]

Behind the scenes

The non-canon Trebela sector

The non-canon Trebela sector

Setor was first mentioned in the 1989 sourcebook Galaxy Guide 2: Yavin and Bespin, which was published for use with West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.[5] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed Setor in grid square L-8.[1]

The magazine article "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder Where We Are", which was published in Voyages SF 13 without Lucas Licensing approval and is thus non-canon, placed Setor in the Trebela sector.[6]

Sources

Non-canon sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 The Essential Atlas
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Galaxy Guide 2: Yavin and Bespin, Second Edition
  3. ↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 140 ("Setor")
  4. ↑ The Official Star Wars Fact File 15 YAV 1-4: Yavin 4
  5. ↑ Galaxy Guide 2: Yavin and Bespin
  6. ↑ Voyages "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder Where We Are" — Voyages SF 13
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