Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope

The first edition of Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope is a supplement to Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game written by Michael Stern and Grant S. Boucher, and published by West End Games for first time in 1989, re-edited with major additions in 1995. The book is written in an in-universe perspective, as though it were the research project of a Rebel historian.

The guide features character profiles with RPG stats for main and some secondary characters from the film Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. This book created for first time complete backgrounds for many characters appearing in the film.

The second edition was published in 1995. The main change of the new edition is to adapt the stats included to the Second Edition rules, but the articles were also extended to include vehicles, starships and equipment, not only characters like in the original guide.

From the publisher
''Here it is! A definitive collection of backgrounds, statistics, and information on the heroes and villains from the original Star Wars movie! This comprehensive guide to the Star Wars galaxy details the aliens, Imperials and Rebels that figured in those crucial weeks leading up to the Battle of Yavin.''

First in a series of guides to the greatest space fantasy film of all time, A New Hope includes character histories and never-related-before information that makes this volume a must for movie fans and players of the Star Wars game.

Introduction

 * The Researcher's Odyssey
 * Voren Na'al

Tatooine Profiles

 * Desert Stormtroopers
 * Desert Sands Senior Officer DSS-0956 (1st Ed. only)
 * The Tatooine Debriefing
 * Garindan
 * Momaw Nadon
 * Figrin D'an
 * The Tonnika Sisters
 * Double Vision
 * Greedo
 * Dr. Cornelius Evazan
 * One That Got Away
 * Ponda Baba
 * Labria
 * Sivrak
 * Muftak
 * Kabe
 * The Researcher's Odyssey Continues
 * Across the Burning Sands of Tatooine
 * R5-D4
 * Power droid
 * Jawas
 * Sand People (Tusken Raiders)
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Artoo's Tale
 * Owen and Beru Lars
 * Camie's Story

Death Star Profiles

 * Darth Vader
 * The Death Star
 * Grand Moff Tarkin
 * Admiral Motti
 * General Tagge
 * Death Star Officers
 * Captain Gosden (1st Ed. only)
 * Crossing the Dark Lord
 * Death Star Troopers
 * Death Star Gunners
 * TIE Pilots
 * Imperial Interrogator Droid
 * Dianoga

Yavin Profiles

 * General Jan Dodonna
 * Dodonna's Story
 * Rebel Pilots
 * Fin Danglot (1st Ed. only)
 * Rebel Soldiers
 * Galen Torg (1st Ed. only)
 * The Letter Home
 * Biggs Darklighter
 * Wish You Were Here
 * Wedge Antilles
 * Jek Porkins

Interviews with the Heroes of Yavin

 * Luke Skywalker
 * Princess Leia Organa
 * Han Solo
 * Chewbacca