Unidentified dead star system

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"Stars can die—?"
"It is the way of the universe, which is another manner of saying that it is the will of the Force. Everything dies. In time, even stars burn out."
―Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi[1]

An ancient star system centered around a dwarf star that eventually came to die. The dwarf, having been hypercompacted into various trace metals, hovered in the system at a temperature only marginally higher than absolute zero. Early in his time as a Jedi Padawan, Anakin Skywalker traveled to the system with his Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. The older man used the frigid sight to impart a lesson on his apprentice: all things pass in time, and it would be a selfish act to hold on to those attachments after their time was up. Skywalker held on to the memory of the system and its frozen star, haunted by the idea that all things die.[1]

Behind the scenes

The star system was mentioned in Matthew Stover's 2005 Star Wars Legends novel Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, an adaptation of the film of the same name.[1] For his 2022 current canon novel Brotherhood, author Mike Chen included a mention of a dead star system[2] with a similar contextual premise, intending the passage to further elaborate on the passage in Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization.[3]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith novelization
  2. ↑ Brotherhood
  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 (original link is obsolete)