A passing comet once impacted Needan,[2] a planet[3] orbiting a single star[2] in the dying[4] Needan system of Wild Space.[1] The collision sent Needan into a wider orbit,[5] on a trajectory rapidly carrying it away from its sun.[2]
The consequent permanently cold and winter-like climate led to the extinction of the majority of species of the planet, which originally featured immense oceans teeming with living organisms as well as jungles on the land portion of its surface. Needan's sentient Geelan species survived the disaster by building and retreating to dome-like habitats. When the Geelan realized, however, that the fuel supply on which their society was relying was rapidly dwindling, the species' scientists began sending out distress signals into outer space, leading to a first contact with the wider galactic community[2] at some point by the time of the Galactic Civil War[4] and the subsequent emigration of many Geelan off their doomed homeworld.[2]
Behind the scenes
The comet was first mentioned in the "Alien Encounters" feature of the May 1997 thirteenth issue of West End Games' Star Wars Adventure Journal magazine. The feature was authored by Brian Smithson.[3] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Needan system, and therefore the comet, in grid square I-20.[1]
Sources
"Alien Encounters" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 13 (First mentioned)- Alien Encounters
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I ("Geelan")
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The Essential Atlas — Based on corresponding data for Needan system
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Alien Encounters
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
"Alien Encounters" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 13
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Zirtran's Anchor" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 5
- ↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 329 ("Geelan")