Unidentified dead star system

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"Since you're here, you might as well take a look."
―Obi-Wan Kenobi, to Anakin Skywalker[1]

A star system was centered around a dwarf star in the galaxy until the star died sometime by the Republic Era. A near impossibility of science, the lingering dwarf sat in space at temperatures near absolute zero, creating gravity wells and other quantum fluctuations around it.[1] In 29 BBY,[2] Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi traveled to the system on assignment from the Jedi High Council to study the star, unknowingly carrying a curious stowaway: his twelve-year-old Padawan, Anakin Skywalker. After discovering Skywalker asleep aboard the starship, Kenobi used the dead star system to teach his student about attachment and the importance of letting go, as even the brightest of stars passed in time.[1]

Behind the scenes

In the current Star Wars canon, the dead star system was mentioned in Mike Chen's 2022 novel Brotherhood.[1] Chen intended the passage to serve as a connection to Matthew Stover's 2005 Revenge of the Sith novelization,[3] which both recounted the same scenario and marked the system's debut in the Star Wars Legends continuity.[4]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Brotherhood
  2. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines states Anakin Skywalker was born in 41 BBY. In Brotherhood, Obi-Wan Kenobi recalls that Skywalker was twelve years old at the time of their travel to the dead star system, meaning that the mission must have occurred in 29 BBY.
  3. ↑ TwitterLogo Mike Chen (@mikechenwriter) on Twitter (post on May 17, 2022): "#10: 'even stars burned out' -- that whole flashback with Anakin and Obi-Wan fleshes out a moment from Matthew Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization of a 'minor mission' where Anakin witnessed the death of a star." (original link is obsolete)
  4. ↑ Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith novelization