- "Where is Dina? Where is she? What have you done with her!?"
- ―A victim of the White Thranta Shipping Company
Dina was a female individual who lived on Tatooine during the Galactic Civil War. By the time of the Battle of Yavin, Dina was captured by henchmen of the White Thranta Shipping Company. The organization was actually serving as a front for Jabba Desilijic Tiure, kidnapping victims and infecting them for deranged experiments. Most of the "subjects" did not survive the experiments.[1] In 1 ABY,[2] a spacer investigated the White Thranta Shipping offices and found dying prisoners. One such victim withered on the ground, shouting in anguish about an individual named Dina.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Dina was mentioned in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts.[1] The game was shut down on December 15, 2011.[3] Dina was mentioned by the prisoners in the White Thranta Shipping bunker,[1] added to the game as part of the "Legacy Quest" with the release of the "Publish 25", a.k.a. the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005.[4]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) (First mentioned)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Digital Infection" on Tatooine
- ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
- ↑
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
- ↑ Publish Archive 2005 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)