Spacer/Legends

Spacer was a slang term that referred to those who made their living flying across space, including pilots and crew. Most spacers ran freight, charter, or information collection operations, although many worked or moonlighted as mercenaries, bounty hunters, and smugglers. Some were hyperspace explorers. Other slang terms for "spacer" included star-hopper, which became famously attached to a group of spacers on Aduba-3. The term was usually used only to describe civilians within spacefaring professions.

Gav Daragon, Han Solo and Chewbacca were examples of spacers.

Behind the scenes

 * Spacer is used much in the same way that sailor is used today.
 * Star-hopper was originally used in the first issues of Marvel Star Wars rather than spacer.
 * In The Story of General Grievous: Lord of War, author Abel G. Peña attributed the death of Necrosis to "a motley band of spacers." In this instance he was referring to the players of Star Wars: Galaxies, who kill Necrosis in a quest on Kashyyyk.
 * For most quests in Star Wars: Galaxies that are considered canon, those who completed them are referred to as spacers.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire
 * Star Wars: Galaxies
 * Specter of the Past