Shar'Ack system

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The Shar'Ack system was located in the Atrivis sector,[1] a part of the New Territories portion of[2] the Outer Rim Territories.[1] It contained the planet Shar'Ack.[3]

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Publication information

The Shar'Ack system was first mentioned in the 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas, authored by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry, which placed it in grid square L-5.[2] The planet Shar'Ack was mentioned in "The New Rogues Gallery: Unsung Heroes of the Rebellion," an article written by Joe Littrell as a supplement for West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game and published in Polyhedron 59 in May 1991.[3] The article is considered noncanonical with respect to the Star Wars Legends continuity.[4]

However, Jason Fry has stated that the star systems listed in the book's Appendix section are named after the most prominent planets or celestial bodies located in those systems. This article therefore considers the existence of the planet Shar'Ack to be canonical with respect to the Legends continuity.[5]

The New Rogues Gallery: Unsung Heroes of the Rebellion

Warning: The following section contains information from a Star Wars Legends source that was released outside of the Lucas Licensing process, and its licensing status was never confirmed by Lucasfilm.

A forested world, Shar'Ack was the homeworld of the sentient Shaliz'Na species. By the time of the Galactic Civil War, the Galactic Empire controlled all liquor manufactured on and imported to Shar'Ack. Around that time, the Shaliz'Na musician Tyric had left Shar'Ack and was traveling throughout the galaxy, eventually joining the Rebel Alliance.[3]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 StarWars.com Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Essential Atlas
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 PolyhedronLogo "The New Rogues Gallery: Unsung Heroes of the Rebellion" — Polyhedron 59
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ TwitterLogo Jason Fry (@jasoncfry) on Twitter (post): "Pretty much." (In response to "the systems in the Atlas's appendix are named after their most prominent planet/celestial body, correct?") and "planets not assigned a system in [a] published source can be assumed to reside in [the] system of [the] same name." (backup link) (screenshot)
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