Spacer/Legends

"Drink it down, boys, for the black of space is cold. Drink it down, boys, for it's always better to live hard and die young than live not and die old."

- A spacer's toast

Spacer, or mariner, 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; star-jumper; star-rover; and planet-jumper. 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 as a synonym of 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.

The term spacer is used to refer to the player's character in Star Wars Galaxies, as many of the quests completed by the player are considered canon.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
 * Han Solo and the Lost Legacy
 * The Paradise Snare
 * The Hutt Gambit
 * Rebel Dawn
 * Star Wars 7: New Planets, New Perils
 * Star Wars 8: Eight for Aduba-3
 * Star Wars 9: Showdown on a Wasteland World
 * Star Wars 10: Behemoth from the World Below
 * Star Wars 16: The Hunter
 * Children of the Jedi
 * Specter of the Past
 * Star Wars Legacy 43: Monster, Part 1
 * ''Galactic Phrase Book and Travel Guide
 * Star Wars Legacy 43: Monster, Part 1
 * ''Galactic Phrase Book and Travel Guide

Notes and references
Espacial Espaçeiro