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First Light was a Kalevalan star yacht owned by the near-human crime lord Dryden Vos of the Crimson Dawn who used it as a personal residence and mobile base of operations for the crime syndicate.[1]
The yacht had a crew complement consisting of both organics and droids and had its own onboard security force, in the form of the Hylobon Enforcers.
Design
Following in a similar vein to other spaceships made by Kalevala Spaceworks like the Coronet, the First Light was of a distinctive vertical design, being a very short, yet very tall spaceship with the interior divided up into several floors and decks located on top of one another, with Dryden Vos' office and personal quarters located at the very top. All floors were connected and accessible via an elevator running through the height of the ship.
Behind the scenes
The interior of First Light was inspired by the Modernist interior of the Marin County Civic Center, designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright and located at 20 minutes from Skywalker Ranch and where Star Wars creator George Lucas filmed in part the 1971 cult film THX-1138, his directorial debut. A preliminary version of the yacht was inspired by the high collar of Bela Lugosi's vampire costume of the 1931 film Dracula.[4] In earlier versions of the script, however, Dryden Vos' operations base was an island fortress with a canal system like Mont-Saint-Michel, rather than a ship.[5]
Appearances
- Solo: A Star Wars Story (First appearance)
- Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition
- Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition audiobook
- Solo: A Star Wars Story Read-Along Storybook and CD
- Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation 2
- Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation 3
- Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation 6
- Solo: A Star Wars Story Adaptation 7
- Choose Your Destiny: A Han & Chewie Adventure (First mentioned)
Sources
- Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide (First identified as First Light)
- The Art of Solo: A Star Wars Story
- Solo: A Star Wars Story: Tales from Vandor
- Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
- YT-1300 Corellian Freighter Owner's Workshop Manual
- Star Wars: Outer Rim
- Aurodia Ventafoli in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
- Crimson Dawn in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
- Dryden Vos in the Databank (backup link)
- First Light in the Databank (backup link)
- Qi'ra in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
- Tobias Beckett in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
- Toht Ra in the Databank (backup link)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Choose Your Destiny: A Han & Chewie Adventure
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Solo: A Star Wars Story
- ↑ The Art of Solo: A Star Wars Story
- ↑ Jon Kasdan (@JonKasdan) on Twitter: "In honor of the digital release of #SoloAStarWarsStory & in lieu of a commentary, here are 53 random factoids & notes about the making & writing for anybody who's interested. If you haven't seen the movie yet... maybe watch it before reading? Anyway, enjoy the movie & #MTFBWY" (backup link (JonKasdan/status/1040529501870944256) not verified!)