What's The Story?



What's The Story? is an exclusive feature on the Star Wars fanclub website, Star Wars Hyperspace. It gives Hyperspace members a chance to leave their mark on the Star Wars Expanded Universe by allowing them to provide the backstory for certain aspects of the saga; usually obscure background characters or vehicles from the films. Winning entries become official Star Wars lore: published in the Databank and added to the Holocron continuity database. This feature was launched June 24, 2005.

According to Pablo Hidalgo of Lucas Online, this feature will end in 2008.

The process

 * The submission form is regularly updated presenting a new subject for fans to write about, originally weekly, then in a fortnightly period and finally on the first Friday of every month. Entries must be based on the information and criteria given, and must all be under 2000 characters in length.
 * Every submission received is read by a panel of judges, with the best marked as finalists. Pablo Hidalgo then selects the best entry, or merges some entries and edits them into the final product. The Databank is updated with five or six successful entries at a time.

List of entries and authors
* Was not published. To quote Pablo Hidalgo: "A winning entry was selected, but it became apparent that projects in the works tread too closely to the lore being established in the CO troopers, that the call was made to pull it. Better that than introduce an instant-continuity error." It is unknown if the entry will ever be published in the future. The winning entry was not entered into the Holocron continuity database in any form, and Lucasfilm Ltd. has not revealed who was the writer of the entry.

Later EU appearances and references
A list of What's The Story? aspects that have since appeared in new Expanded Universe material.

Direct references

 * UT-AT, in Guide to the Grand Army of the Republic and Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary
 * Barrow Oicunn, in Underworld Appendix: Swoops, Spice, and Wretched Rogues
 * Grizz Frix, in Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary
 * Corla Metonae, in Star Wars Insider 90
 * Nem Bees, in The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
 * Pax and Trax Bonkik, as Hasbro action figures
 * Hamadryas in Sacrifice
 * 3B6-RA-7 in the StarWars.com Visual Guides

References within other WTS entries

 * Romeo Treblanc, in and
 * Tannon Praji, in and
 * Rango Tel, in
 * Ottegru Grey, in
 * Cebann Veekan, in

Entries reprinted in Star Wars Insider

 * Tzizvvt and E-3PO in Star Wars Insider 89

Indirect references

 * Onnelly Praji, presumed to be the daughter of Tannon Praji, in Evasive Action: Recruitment
 * Ongree species information from the Acros-Krik databank entry in The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
 * Tusus Comestibles, connected to Belo Tusus, in
 * Luptoom in

Cut references

 * Bal'demnic; Abel G. Peña mentioned Bal'demnic in Underworld Appendix: Swoops, Spice, and Wretched Rogues, but Lucasfilm cut the reference.

Minor elements introduced
Other elements introduced (or first identified) into continuity through What's The Story? include:
 * Almak
 * Aneesa Dym
 * Bak'rofsen system
 * Beezar Pert
 * Belo Tusus
 * Braha'tok
 * Bryyn Woolery
 * Chesea
 * coolth suit
 * Czerka 84-U hunting rifle
 * Daystar Craft
 * DC0040
 * DC-19 "Stealth" carbine
 * Diva
 * Dornean Braha'ket Fleetworks Conglomerate
 * Eminence
 * Enso
 * Ensolica
 * The Eye of the Beyonder
 * Hamadryas
 * Honorary Elder
 * Imperial Entertainers Guild
 * Ingoda the Hutt
 * Kon'me
 * Layn Wynest
 * Leffingite
 * Luptoom
 * Musikagung
 * Naftrat Odarr
 * New Nozho
 * Org Banelli
 * parental collective
 * Plasma leech
 * Qel-Droma
 * Red Bush Grove
 * Tash Scambras
 * Scri Oscuro
 * Siqo Vass
 * Spanner
 * Sono-class thrust pod
 * symponik
 * Symponik Nabooalla
 * Symponika Crunchen-Grand
 * TechSpan I
 * Torktarak
 * Trax Bonkik
 * Tusus Comestibles
 * Wol Cabassh
 * Yarlubb River
 * Yuvernian