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This article is non-canon within the Star Wars Legends continuity.

This article covers a Star Wars Legends subject that was published under the Infinities label or that Lucasfilm otherwise declared non-canon within the Legends continuity.

Christmas was an annual holiday celebrated by various sentients throughout the galaxy. In celebration of the holiday, sentients would often light Christmas trees and give gifts to each other. On Christmas morning, Santa Claus would travel around the entire galaxy to gift presents to children who he deemed "good." Eventually, Santa became unable to deliver all the presents alone, so he enlisted the help of his son S. Claus.[1]


FULL LIST OF INFO FROM CHRISTMAS IN THE STARS:

  • Annual holiday (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
  • Christmas trees (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
  • Phrase "Merry Christmas" was common (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
  • About joy and love (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
  • Christmas-based music (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
  • Mistletoe used for decorations (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
    • People kissed under mistletoe (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
  • Holly used as decorations (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
  • Peppermints and lollipops were common Christmas foods, as well as chocolate bars and cookiees (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
  • Celebrated with others (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
  • Those with access to snow would go sleigh riding (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
  • Droids commissioned to build toys for Santa and S. Claus (Song: Christmas in the Stars)
  • Celebrated with bells for music which rung and chimed (Song: Bells, Bells, Bells)
  • Christmas carols (Song: Bells, Bells, Bells)
  • Christmas was heavily related to snow (Song: The Odds Against Christmas)
  • Giving friends Christmas cards (Song: The Odds Against Christmas)
  • Gifting presents to friends (Song: The Odds Against Christmas)
    • Presents either provided pleasure or general use (Song: What Can You Get A Wookiee)
    • Wrapped in colorful and festive packaging and ribbon (Song: What Can You Get A Wookiee)
  • Takes place on one day (Song: The Odds Against Christmas)
  • Day before is known as Christmas Eve (Song: The Odds Against Christmas)
  • Honeybuns eaten (Song: Merry, Merry Christmas)
  • Hang stockings (Song: A Christmas Sighting)
  • S. Claus and Santa Claus (Song: A Christmas Sighting); rewatch for all info later
  • Droid run toy-factories (Song: A Christmas Sighting)
  • C-3PO ahs seen S. Claus unlike other droids (Song: A Christmas Sighting)
  • Santa and S. Claus flew a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer (Song: A Christmas Sighting)
  • Santa's eight reindeer (Song: A Christmas Sighting; names on Santa's page)


Description

Christmas was an annual holiday celebrated by various sentients throughout the galaxy. The holiday was considered a time of joy and love, with intent to be celebrated with friends and family.

History

The Rise of Santa Claus

Clone Wars

Important information:

  • Shops of the Jedi Temple
  • Sales during Christmas

C-3P0 and R2-D2

Behind the scenes

Christmas first appeared in Christmas in the Stars,[1] a non-canon 1980 Christmas album produced by RSO Records that featured Star Wars–themed Christmas songs.[2] In the real world, Christmas is a religious holiday celebrated on December 25 to observe the birth of Jesus Christ, as well as a worldwide secular celebration.[3] Christmas in the Stars will occasionally mention real-world references and elements while set in an in-universe continuity.[1] This article assumes that those references are intended to be easter eggs for the viewer and are not actually contained within the story of the album.

Life Day and Christmas parallels

icon Main article: Life Day#Earthly analogue

Released on November 17, 1978,[4] The Star Wars Holiday Special introduced the Star Wars holiday, Life Day.[5] Although originally intended to parallel the real-world holiday of Thanksgiving,[6] having released the Friday prior to the holiday,[4] over time the holiday special has instead become associated with Christmas and has even be referred to as the "Christmas special."[7] As such, multiple Star Wars properties have released in association to Life Day, that in actuality are related to the real-world traditions of Christmas. Games such as the 2003 Massively multiplayer online roleplaying game Star Wars Galaxies and the 2007 video game Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron released Life Day updates or events around or during Christmas.[8][9] Star Wars Galaxies in particular, introduced the concept of decorating wroshyr trees with lights, resembling the Christmas tradition of Christmas trees. The game also introduced parallels to Christmas carols,[10] wreaths, festive gift boxes, and much more.[11] During its in-game "Life Day" events between 2010 and 2013, the MMORPG Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures released a plethora of Christmas related items. During the "12 Days of Christmas" event in December 2011, the items were rereleased on sale.[12]

12 Days of Christmas

The items released during the "Life Day" and "12 Days of Christmas" event were all references to Christmas traditions or characters. During the latter event, a different item was released on sale every day for twelve days between December 13 and December 24 of 2012. The title of the event is itself a reference to the popular English Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas,"[12] in which the singer describes the gifts provided to them by their lover during the Twelve Days of Christmas.[13]

On the first day,

Other Christmas relations in video games

Star Wars Galaxies, Clone Wars Adventures, and the 2011 roleplaying game Star Wars: The Old Republic each contain references to popular Christmas stories and films. The Galaxies website contains an article in which Emperor Palpatine says the phrase "Bah, humbug!".[14] This is a reference to the character Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' book A Christmas Carol, who popularly states the phrase to express his views on Christmas.[15]

The Imperial Edict GR-1NC4 as introduced in The Old Republic, was issued to stop personel of the Sith Empire from engaging in Life Day celebrations.[16] This is a reference to the pop culture character, the Grinch, from Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, who originally had intentions of stopping the Christmas celebrations of The Whos of Whoville.[17] How the Grinch Stole Christmas! themselves were referenced in the Star Wars Galaxies Life Day 2009 Painting, which depicted a group of Wookiees holding hands around a decorated Life Day tree, with Sith Lord Darth Vader ominously looming in the background whilst crushing a present.[10] The painting closely resembles a scene from the 1966 television adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which shows the Whos of Whoville gathering around a Christmas tree in song. The Clone Wars Adventures video game contains a stage in the Republic Defender mini-game titled "Grievous Steals Life Day," serving as another reference to the Grinch. In the mini-game, all of the dialogue for Commander Cody and General Grievous was spoken in a poetic meter.[18]

Appearances

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Christmas in the Stars
  2. ↑ StarWars.com When it Comes to Christmas Music, Is There Anything Better Than Christmas in the Stars? (Trick Question!) on StarWars.com (backup link)
  3. ↑ Premium-Era-real History of Christmas, published by A&E Networks on History.com (October 27, 2009) (backup link archived on April 8, 2023)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 GalaxyCite "Boba Fett: Mystery Man in Not-So-Shining Armor" — Star Wars Galaxy Magazine 1
  5. ↑ The Star Wars Holiday Special
  6. ↑ Premium-Era-real The Star Wars Holiday Special: may the farce be with you by Thomas, William, published by empireonline.com on Empire #235 (January 2009) (December 3, 2015) (backup link archived on May 27, 2020)
  7. ↑ Premium-Era-real The Han Solo Comedy Hour! by DiGiacomo, Frank on Vanity Fair (December 22, 2008) (backup link archived on January 13, 2020)
  8. ↑ Gal-icon Friday Feature – Celebrating Life Day - 12/07/2007 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  9. ↑ Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided — Event: "Life Day 2006"
  11. ↑ Gal-icon Life Day 2006 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Premium-Era-real SOE 12 Days of the Holidays is Here! on Intergalactic News (backup link archived on December 21, 2011)
  13. ↑ YouTube Twelve Days Of Christmas on the Bing Crosby YouTube channel (June 27, 2019) (backup link)
  14. ↑ Gal-icon Corellia Times Exclusive: Life Day Revealed on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  15. ↑ Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol, Chapman & Hall, 1843-12-19. (web archive)
  16. ↑ SWTOR mini IMPERIAL EDICT GR-1NC4 on The Old Republic's official website (backup link)
  17. ↑ Geisel, Theodor Seuss. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Random House, 1957-11-24. (web archive)
  18. ↑ TCWA Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures — "Grievous Steals Life Day" ("Life Day" festival, 2010–2013)

External links

[[Category:Holidays]]