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The Virgillia system was an Outer Rim Territories star system located in the Koradin sector. Its government, which was backed by the Galactic Empire, and the Rebel Alliance–allied Virgillian Free Alignment fought a bitter civil war during the larger Galactic Civil War. The Free Alignment emerged victorious in the former conflict, and the Virgillia system became a member of the New Republic and later a supporter of the Resistance.
Description
The Virgillia system was a part of the Koradin sector[1] in the Outer Rim Territories[1] and the Western Reaches.[2] It was located in grid square I-18 of the Standard Galactic Grid,[1] and the Lipsec Run[3] hyperspace route connected it to the Lipsec and Shuraden systems.[5]
History
The Virgillia system shared its name with the Free Virgillia-class Bunkerbuster.
During the Galactic Civil War, the government of the Virgillia system was backed by the Galactic Empire. In turn, the organization known as the Virgillian Free Alignment was among the early allies of the Rebel Alliance, the Empire's enemy. The two Virgillian factions fought a bitter civil war in which the Free Alignment ultimately prevailed.[4]
The star system became a member of the Empire's successor, the New Republic, and subsequently came to be one of the strongest supporters of the Resistance.[4] By 34 ABY,[6] the Free Virgillia-class Bunkerbuster, a type of corvette manufactured by the Corellian Engineering Corporation[4] and armed with Virgillian-designed heavy plasma bombs[7] and of which the Resistance vessel Ninka was one example, shared its name with the Virgillia system.[4]
Behind the scenes
The Virgillia system was introduced in the current Star Wars canon in Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game.
The Virgillia system was first mentioned in the current Star Wars canon on a galactic map in Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game, a 2016 Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars Roleplaying boxed set.[8] 2017's Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Incredible Cross-Sections, written by Jason Fry as part of the Incredible Cross-Sections reference book series, was the first source to identify Virgillia as a star system.[9]
The Virgillia system was originally introduced in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook, a 1996 sourcebook published for West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.[10] The system subsequently made its first appearance in The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct, a webcomic authored by Pablo Hidalgo and released on StarWars.com[11] over the span of the 2009[12]–2010[13] second season of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.[12]
Appearances
- The High Republic Adventures (2021) 1 (Picture only) (Based on correspondence between the galactic map and maps in other sources)
Sources
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game (First mentioned)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Incredible Cross-Sections (First identified as Virgillia system)
- Star Wars: Complete Vehicles (2018)
- Star Wars Complete Vehicles, New Edition
- The High Republic Free Digital Sampler (Picture only) (Based on correspondence between the galactic map and maps in other sources)
- "The First Order" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- "Exegol, the Unknown Regions and Wild Space" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars Galaxy Map poster (also published on StarWars.com)
- Star Wars: Complete Locations, New Edition
Star Wars Galaxy Map on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)- Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars Galaxy Map on StarWars.com (article) (backup link) places the Virgillia system in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Western Reaches.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars Galaxy Map poster. This assumes that the name "Lipsec Run," as used in Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 18 Guide to the Galaxy: Sectors of the Galaxy, applies to the canon hyperspace route depicted on the map that matches the depiction of the Star Wars Legends route with the same name in The Essential Atlas per
Jason Fry (@jasoncfry.bsky.social.) on Bluesky (post on January 3, 2025): "They are indeed the same. Same galaxy, same map. In the rare event something needs to be changed, it will be discussed. (In response to: Hi @jasoncfry.bsky.social, was hoping you could confirm for Wookieepedia purposes that the hyperspace routes depicted on the Galaxy Map given out at Celebration are intended to be the same routes as in Legends. Sorry to bother, but would make our lives much easier to have it confirmed!)" (screenshot).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Star Wars Complete Vehicles, New Edition
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxy Map on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
- ↑ The Free Virgillia-class Bunkerbuster Ninka was in service during the events of Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 34 ABY.
- ↑ Star Wars: The Last Jedi: The Visual Dictionary
- ↑ Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game
- ↑ Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Incredible Cross-Sections
- ↑ The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook
- ↑ The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 New Clone Wars Web Comic Tells Original Tale on StarWars.com (original site is defunct)
- ↑ The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Lethal Trackdown on StarWars.com (original site is defunct)
