Star Tours/Legends



Star Tours was a short-lived interstellar travel agency which gave tours to prominent planets and moons in the galaxy.

History
At the time of the Battle of Yavin, Star Tours' space cruiser Tzarina, was involved in a tragic accident that cost most of its passengers their lives. For unknown reasons the ship's droid captain decided to change course towards Yavin to show his passengers "something neat". Once there, the yacht collided with an unidentified TIE fighter variant that was tumbling out of control through space. The collision caused the Tzarina's hyperdrive to initiate and throw the ship into hyperspace. When it fell out of hyperspace half a galaxy away it crash landed on Dathomir in Quelii Sector. Only one passenger was known to survive the crash and find his way to the Dathomir Trade Outpost, where he told others his story.

Immediately following the Battle of Endor, Star Tours sought to capitalize on the Moddell Sector's sudden fame by promising "convenient daily departures to the exotic moon of Endor" along the decaying Sanctuary Pipeline. Several months later, accidents and mismanagement drove the company out of business.

Fleet


The Star Tours fleet was dominated by the 40-passenger StarSpeeder 3000. These vessels where piloted by questionably competent RX-series pilot droids and carried an astromech unit. Despite the agency's claim that the ships were highly advanced, they were often in need of repair.

Star Tours used other ships besides the StarSpeeder. The ill-fated Tzarina was a Corellian vessel similar to a CR90 Corvette.

Pilots
Star Tours used the unreliable RX-series droids to pilot their ships. The droids were responsible for many of the accidents that helped drive the agency out of business. RX-24 was one of the pilots of Star Tours' flight to Endor.

Maintenance

 * 3T-RNE
 * C-3PO
 * F-22
 * F-23
 * F-24
 * Frank
 * G2-3B
 * G2-4T
 * G2-9T
 * G3-5LE
 * GNK power droid
 * I. D. A.
 * LGB
 * max-w-100
 * MSE-1T unit
 * P-6
 * R2 unit
 * R2-D2
 * R2-D7
 * R3-A2
 * R3-D3
 * R4 unit
 * R4-M9
 * R5 unit
 * R5-D2
 * RX unit
 * RX-24
 * S-4
 * SK-Z38
 * Space Cap Droid
 * WEG-1618

Other

 * Dan Android
 * DL-X2
 * T3
 * ROX-N
 * Lady Droid

Behind the scenes

 * Star Tours is actually a popular real-world motion simulator attraction located in most Disney theme parks. An article detailing the ride itself can be found here.
 * Though every aspect of the ride is not necessarily canon, references to the Star Tours travel agency have appeared in various Expanded Universe sources, and a number of action figures based on the ride's droids have been released and are considered to be canon.
 * The origin of the third Death Star shown in Star Tours is frequently in dispute, as the details of its construction have gone unexplained for nearly twenty years. A fan explanation that it is the Death Star Prototype from the Jedi Academy trilogy is impossible, as the Star Tours experience is set only months after the Battle of Endor, well before the events of the trilogy, and the prototype was only destroyed at the end of that story.  This theory also doesn't address the fact that the prototype consisted of a skeletal frame, superlaser, and basic propulsion units, rather than the more fully-completed version seen during the tour.  Others have suggested that it is modified from one of the great habitation spheres that were under construction over Coruscant and converted for military use by a post-Endor warlord.  Whatever its origin, this Death Star suffered from a design flaw similar to the first Death Star. Unlike the first Death Star, however, this flaw could be exploited with a surface impact by proton torpedoes, as opposed to them having to travel down an exhaust port all the way to the main reactor. How this surface attack resulted in the station's destruction is unspecified, but does suggest that the builders did modify the first Death Star's design to a certain disastrous degree.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Galaxies
 * Star Wars: TIE Fighter
 * Specter of the Past
 * Star Tours