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The Stratos Distribution was a region of the galaxy where violent factions fought for control centuries before the Galactic Civil War between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire. The region was the origin point of the berserker rifle, a projectile weapon that accelerated electrically charged metal slugs at its targets. By the time of the Galactic Civil War, original berserker rifles from the Stratos Distribution were rare but arms manufacturers produced their own modern versions of the weapon inspired by other regional weaponry. Collectors offered high prices for any berserker rifles that could be verified to originate in the Stratos Distribution.[1]
Behind the scenes
The Stratos Distribution originated in the sourcebook The Unknown Regions.
In the current Star Wars canon, the Stratos Distribution was first mentioned in Gadgets and Gear, a 2019 Star Wars Roleplaying supplement released by Fantasy Flight Games.[1] The region originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in The Unknown Regions, a 2010 sourcebook for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game published by Wizards of the Coast.[2]
Although the Stratos Distribution was listed without a specified grid square in the original Legends StarWars.com Online Companion to the 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry,[3] it was moved to an unlisted section of the canon successor: "Star Systems of the Galaxy," an appendix published alongside the Star Wars Galaxy Map on StarWars.com on June 24, 2025. Both were also written by Fry, who has clarified that those unlisted systems still exist in Star Wars lore but were hidden for various reasons including a lack of grid square specification.[4]
Sources
- Gadgets and Gear (First mentioned)
Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version) (Unlisted)
