High Galactic

"I get it now. It's a basic algebra thing. You have to picture it written down in High Galactic instead of listening to it."

- Nakari Kelen

High Galactic was a writing system that saw use during the Clone Wars and the Galactic Civil War. It was notably used in certain Basic holofeeds displayed on the planet of Coruscant, then capital of the Galactic Empire. Algebraic formulas could also be written down in High Galactic letters. The bottles containing the Nabooan wine called Domaine de la Maison sur le Lac also featured High Galactic characters on their stickers.

Behind the scenes
"Well, actually, they do use the Roman alphabet in the Star Wars universe."

- Pablo Hidalgo

The original version of the 1977 movie Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope'' contained occurrences of the real-life Latin alphabet. Although those labels were later edited into Aurebesh in the DVD release, the Expanded Universe kept featuring Roman letters in in-universe situations. Eventually, those occurrences were identified as the High Galactic alphabet in The Written Word, a StarWars.com Hyperspace article written by John Hazlett. However, the Expanded Universe has since been rebranded Star Wars Legends, and is therefore not considered official canon anymore.

Nevertheless, Roman writings still appeared in "The Gungan General" and "Senate Murders," two episodes of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars canon television series. Eventually, the novel Heir to the Jedi by Kevin Hearne recanonized the name High Galactic.

In the 2015 short comic Star Wars Annual 1 by Marvel Comics, a number of holofeed writings were mistakenly written in a Roman typeface that only mimicked real Aurebesh. When asked about it by a fan, Jordan D. White, editor for Marvel Comics, admitted there had been a mistake. However, he also endorsed the in-universe identification of those writings as High Galactic.

Appearances

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 * Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir, Part One
 * Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
 * Heir to the Jedi
 * Star Wars Annual 1
 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
 * Heir to the Jedi
 * Star Wars Annual 1