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Star Wars is an American epic space-opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.This is a list of the many reference books that have been published to accompany the films, television series, and the Expanded Universe of books, comics and video games.
Ackbar's first name, Gial, was not established until the April 2012 release of the Star Wars reference book The Essential Guide to Warfare. [1] [116] Co-author Paul R. Urquhart told the website TheForce.net said the name was taken from Gial Gahan, a Mon Calamari Senator character who played a minor role in the Star Wars: Legacy comic book ...
The Phantom of Menace: Star Wars Part the First: Ian Doescher: 2015-04-07 AA [b] 22 BBY Episode II – Attack of the Clones: The Clone Army Attacketh: Star Wars Part the Second: 2015-07-07 AA: 19 BBY Episode III – Revenge of the Sith: Tragedy of the Sith's Revenge: Star Wars Part the Third: 2015-09-08 AA: 13–10 BBY Solo: A Star Wars Story ...
Star Wars: A Droid Story: In December 2020, an animated film centered around the adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO was announced as being in development; the story will introduce a new heroic character to the franchise, alongside the two returning droids. The project will be a joint-venture production between Lucasfilm Animation, and Industrial ...
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic nuclear missiles. The program was announced in 1983, by President Ronald Reagan. [1]
It is the main protagonistic faction of the original Star Wars trilogy. In the Star Wars universe, the Rebel insurgency conducts covert operations on Imperial garrison worlds, utilizing a stateless strategy in conjunction with wolfpack-guerrilla warfare against the Imperial fleet throughout the galaxy. Capital ships are portrayed as having no ...
A major similarity between modern military robotics and those of the Star Wars universe is that different robots are built and designed for different specific purposes, whether those purposes are ground warfare, maritime warfare, aerial warfare, or space warfare, as seen in the Star Wars prequel films. Such uses are considered unpractical and ...
Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox. It is the first film released in the Star Wars film series and the fourth chronological chapter of the "Skywalker Saga".