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Early drafts of the Star Wars story include references to at least two planets which later evolved into the concept of Alderaan.Star Wars author George Lucas included a planet called Alderaan in early treatments; in The Star Wars (1973), Alderaan is a city-planet and the capital planet of the galaxy (prefiguring the planet Coruscant which later featured in the films).
This marks the formal "founding" of the Rebel Alliance, and Galen Marek's family crest is chosen by Leia as its official symbol. [19] Thus, the Rebel Alliance is effectively founded by Darth Vader himself, and, by extension, Emperor Palpatine, though it is clear neither had imagined that the Alliance would actually ever become a serious threat.
"current": AC (for "alternating current"); less commonly, DC (for "direct current"); or even I (the symbol used in physics and electronics) Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten
Alderaan may refer to: Alderaan, a fictional planet in the Star Wars universe; Alderaan (astronomy), a former name for a group of stars in the constellation of Gemini; Alderaan may also refer to: Alderan, a character in the Hungarian epic poem The Siege of Sziget; the fictional Aldaran family in the Darkover series of books
To mark the Death Star being fully operational, Tarkin orders the Death Star to destroy Leia's home world of Alderaan in an attempt to press her into giving him the location of the secret Rebel headquarters; she gives them the location of Dantooine, which housed a now-deserted Rebel base, but Tarkin has Alderaan destroyed anyway as a ...
Gemini constellation map showing Castor, Pollux, Procyon and Beta Canis Minoris (Gomeisa) Al-Dhira' and similar spellings (e.g. "Alderaan", [citation needed] "Al-Dhirá'án", [1] "Aldryan" [2]) is a disused name for the two pairs of stars α and β Canis Minoris (Procyon and Gomeisa) and α and β Geminorum (Castor and Pollux).
Symbol Year Image Bird: Willow ptarmigan: 1955 Dog: Alaskan Malamute: 2010 Fish: King salmon: 1962 Insect: Four-spot skimmer dragonfly: 1995 Land mammal: Moose: 1998 Marine mammal: Bowhead whale: 1983
The dagger symbol originated from a variant of the obelus, originally depicted by a plain line − or a line with one or two dots ÷. [7] It represented an iron roasting spit, a dart, or the sharp end of a javelin, [8] symbolizing the skewering or cutting out of dubious matter. [9] [10] [11]