Wild gundark chase

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"The droid's more clever than it looks. I think it's leading us on a wild gundark chase."
Oh, he would never do that. Would you, Artoo?"
―Archyr Beil and C-3PO, on R2-D2[1]

Wild gundark chase was a slang phrase used in the galaxy, which referred to an ultimately pointless activity which distracted someone from a desired objective.[2] It was used by people like Mace Windu,[3] Archyr Beil[1] and Han Solo.[4] The idiom referred to the gundark, a fearsome anthropoid from Vanqor.[5]

Behind the scenes

The phrase "wild gundark chase" first appears in the 1996 book Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, under the section "Creating Complications" in chapter 4, which says "The characters are tracking someone who's carrying a sensor beacon when the beacon is discovered, dropped, or stolen. Now, the characters are on a wild gundark chase while the target escapes."[2] The idiom is derived from the real-world phrase "wild goose chase,"[6] which also exists in Legends continuity.[7]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
  3. ↑ Labyrinth of Evil
  4. ↑ Honor Among Thieves
  5. ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia
  6. ↑ Premium-Era-real wild goose chase on Collins English Dictionary: "If you are on a wild goose chase, you waste a lot of time searching for something that you have little chance of finding, because you have been given incorrect information." (backup link archived on September 16, 2022)
  7. ↑ Star Wars (1977) 30