Vokoff-Strood

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Vokoff-Strood was a a company that manufactured podracers and their engines. Its products included the Titan 2150 rocket engine[1] and the Plug-8G 927 Cluster Array Podracer,[2] including its engine. In[1] the 32 BBY[3] Boonta Eve Classic race on the planet Tatooine, the podracer Ratts Tyerell used twin Vokoff-Strood Titan 2150 rocket engines on his podracer, Scatalpen, while his competitor Ark Roose used a Plug-8G 927 Cluster Array Podracer.[1] Neither finished the race.[4]

Behind the scenes

In the current Star Wars canon, Vokoff-Strood was first mentioned in the mobile card game Star Wars: Force Collection,[2] which initially launched in 2013. Although the launch of Force Collection predates[5] the Star Wars canon reset of 2014,[6] Lucasfilm Story Group member Leland Chee confirmed that the game was kept updated to fit with canon.[7] One of the two cards that mentions the company in the game misspelt the company's name as "Vokof-Strood."[2] The company originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in the 1999 reference software Star Wars: Episode I Insider's Guide.[8]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Star Wars Complete Vehicles, New Edition
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 SW Force Collection Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: Ark Roose (★))
  3. ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas: Updated Edition
  4. ↑ Star Wars: Complete Locations
  5. ↑ StarWars.com Announcing Star Wars: Force Collection on StarWars.com (original link is obsolete)
  6. ↑ StarWars.com The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns a New Page on StarWars.com (backup link)
  7. ↑ TwitterLogo Leland Chee (@holocronkeeper) on Twitter (post on March 28, 2017): "I'm not gonna go through the trouble of changing them and I don't have any reason to believe currently that anyone would. […] On the off-chance that we DID have a current need to change any of these, we would have for Force Collection." (backup link) — Leland Chee of the Lucasfilm Story Group has confirmed that in-universe information from Star Wars: Force Collection conforms with Star Wars canon.
  8. ↑ Star Wars: Episode I Insider's Guide
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