Spee

Spee^[1][4] was a celestial body^[3] located in the Spee system, a part of the Saijo sector^[1] in the Western Reaches portion of^[2] the Outer Rim Territories.^[1] It was the site of a spaceport and a number of restaurants as well as at least one hotel.^[3]

At one point during the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, the Human smuggler Roark Garnet arrived at Spee's spaceport. While he was striding away from the facility, he was followed by an alien who welcomed him to Spee and offered their services in finding lodging and providing a guided tour.^[3]

Behind the scenes

The celestial body referred to by an alien—who pronounced the "s" sound as "th"—as "Thpee" was first mentioned in the 1987 rulebook for the first edition of West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.^[3] "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder Where We Are," a 1990 roleplaying game source article published in the thirteenth issue of the Voyages SF magazine, placed a location called "Spee" in the Albarrio sector. Since the article was released outside of the Lucas Licensing process, its canonicity within the Star Wars Legends continuity was never confirmed.^[5]

The StarWars.com Online Companion to the 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas subsequently instead placed the Spee star system in grid square K-20 as part of the Saijo sector.^[1] Jason Fry,^[4] co-author of The Essential Atlas,^[6] has stated that the star systems listed in the book's Appendix section^[4]—which the Online Companion served as an extension of^[1]—were named after the most prominent planets or celestial bodies located in those systems. This article therefore considers the celestial body Spee to be named accordingly.^[4]

Sources

• Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game (First mentioned)

Non-canon sources

• "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder Where We Are" — Voyages SF 13 (Unlicensed)

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