Star Wars: Starfighter

Star Wars: Starfighter
Production information
Developer(s)	LucasArts Tsunami Visual Technologies, Inc. (Arcade version)
Publisher(s)	LucasArts Tsunami Visual Technologies, Inc. (Arcade version)
Genre	Arcade simulator
Modes	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen (T)
Platform(s)	PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Arcade game, PlayStation 3
Chronological information
Timeline	32 BBY

Warning: This infobox has missing parameters: composer, programmer, producer, upc, director, designer, writer, expansions, artist, closed, basegame, release date, series and unrecognized parameters: released Star Wars: Starfighter is a flight simulation video game for the PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2 that takes place during Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, released on February 19, 2001.

Star Wars: Starfighter Special Edition is an improved version of the original release, Star Wars: Starfighter. It included several bonus features not included in the first title, such as improved graphics, special bonus levels, unlockable fighter craft and even some two-player versions of story levels.

The game's script was worked on by Matt Jacobs.

In 2003, Tsunami Visual Technologies, Inc. released a version of the game for the TsuMo arcade motion multi-game system. This version featured five levels. On April 28, 2015, the game was made available on PlayStation Network, allowing it to be played on PlayStation 3.

Summary

The storyline follows the exploits of three pilots prior to and during the Invasion of Naboo; Naboo starfighter pilot Rhys Dallows, mercenary Vana Sage and Feeorin pirate Nym. While Dallows defends Queen Amidala from mercenaries in the Naboo system, Vana Sage is betrayed by the Trade Federation near Eos, and Nym carries out raids on Federation freighters over Lok. The three ultimately cross paths, and set out to fight back against the Trade Federation following the death of Dallows' mentor, Essara Till, and the capture of Nym's base on Lok. The pilots join the Battle of Naboo, with Nym and Vana protecting a groundside settlement while Dallows takes the fight to the orbital Droid Control Ship with Bravo Squadron.

Opening crawl

STARFIGHTER
The galaxy stands on the brink of war. In the Outer Rim, the greedy Trade Federation is mobilizing a secret army to strike at peaceful Naboo. Amidst growing tensions, Bravo Flight trainee RHYS DALLOWS prepares to fly Royal Escort and protect the Queen. Meanwhile, the mercenary VANA SAGE has undertaken a dangerous assignment for the Trade Federation, a mission that will lead her to a perilous discovery. And on the planet Lok, the pirate captain NYM prepares for his next raid, unaware that the Trade Federation is planning a deadly gambit that will spell doom for his homeworld and force three unlikely heroes to save the galaxy...

Plot

Promotional game image.

The story begins with Rhys Dallows, a budding N-1 starfighter pilot. After a short combat tutorial with his mentor Essara Till, the two are assigned their first joint mission. They are to escort Padmé Amidala traveling in the Royal Starship as she meets with Trade Federation officials. The meeting is revealed to be a trap, and Rhys and Essara are forced to defend the royal starship from mercenaries until it can escape. After it jumps into hyperspace, Essara is killed by an unidentified ship, and Rhys's ship is disabled. Rhys is later rescued by the Toydarian Reti in the Zoomer.

The story shifts to Vana Sage, a mercenary employed by the Trade Federation. She is hired to help test the Scarab-class droid starfighter, which serves as an informal tutorial for controlling her ship. After completing the task, her astromech droid, Mod-3, intercepts a transmission about the illegal invasion of Naboo. The Trade Federation subsequently terminates her contract and sends numerous "Hunter-Killer" droids and a squad of mercenaries to kill her. Vana manages to destroy all but one of the droids, which leads her to a droid production factory on the volcanic planet of Eos. After a brief investigating of the factory, she returns to her base of operations, awaiting Reti and Rhys.

Nym, a Feeorin pirate Vana had managed to capture at some point before the events take place, had escaped and now threatened to kill Vana. She manages to buy him off by telling him about the droid factory she discovered on Eos, which he repays by trapping her in a locker and meeting back up with his pirate group above Lok. Nym then had started a piracy operation which began the First Battle of Lok, disabling a freighter in orbit and managing to send it crashing to Lok's surface, Nym's pirates steal valuable supplies from the crashed freighter and attempt to return to their base by navigating through a river defending the small freighter to a cave. The Trade Federation strikes back, overrunning Nym's pirates and forcing him to self-destruct the base as they return to Vana's home.

Reti and Rhys arrived at Vana's home and found her in the locker and released her. Nym then arrived back at Vana's station, After the meeting between Rhys, Vana, Nym and Reti, the four ally with each other in an attempt to stop the Trade Federation once and for all. The character played as varies throughout the second half of the game, as the small group destroys the droid factory on Eos, disables a Trade Federation freighter and steals supplies, delivers those supplies to Bravo Flight, rescues Trade Federation prisoners, and then defends the Naboo Royal Guard's outpost. Failure of this mission only occurs if either the outpost is badly damaged or 5/10 defense turrets are destroyed. The final mission takes place around the Droid Control Ship, as Bravo Flight destroys the receiver stations on the exterior of the ship. When they destroy all the droid starfighters currently deployed, the leader of the Trade Federation-hired mercenaries appears. The shield to one of the hangar bays opens; a landing craft leaves as the mercenary and Rhys enter. The lander can be destroyed but requires tremendous amounts of time and damage to destroy. The shield closes again, trapping Rhys inside and the rest of Bravo Flight outside of the ship. Inside the hangar bay, several landing craft surround the area. These can also be destroy except the landers. Destroying these makes the hangar safer to navigate. A fierce battle throughout the inner bays of the ship ensues, with Rhys eventually destroying the mercenary's ship. When Anakin Skywalker fires the shot that destroys the control ship, Dallows escapes the doomed vessel by destroying the shield generator blocking his escape route.

After the battle, the three heroes meet and exchange farewells before Nym's departure to rejoin his fellow pirates.

Bonuses

Missions

These missions are unlockable by completing campaign missions with gold medals.

• Fighter Training

  In this training mission, Rhys Dallows battles several waves of holographic simulations of various mercenary ships. (In this mission, there is a B1 battle droid on one of the asteroids cooking and flipping Hamburgers from a grill.)

• Ground Attack Training

  In this training mission, Nym battles ten waves of holographic Trade Federation vehicles and vessels.

• Charm's Way

  This mission has Essara Till defending a small convoy of merchant ships leaving Naboo, during the prelude to the Invasion of Naboo including the Mercatan and the Charm's Way, captained by Reeve Dallows, father of Rhys Dallows. Along their route, the convoy is attacked by mercenary fighters, a Trade Federation fleet, and a Planetary Gun stationed on one of Naboo's moons. If played in multiplayer, the second person will play as Rhys.

• Canyon Sprint

  Here, Rhys Dallows competes with his companions in a race down the Naboo training canyon. Your opponents are Reti, Vana Sage, Nym, and Essara Till. Till is the fastest of the four. In order to win the race, the player must defeat her. (In this mission, the different valleys contain sets from different maps in the game, most notably buildings from the Naboo concentration camps, and buildings from the Eos production plant. In the valley after the finish line is a giant race car, but it only appears if the player beats all four opponents.)

• Outpost Attack

  Vana Sage defends a mining outpost against a Trade Federation attack. Three Dropships can be seen in the sky but are indestructible. These release Droid Starfighters to overrun the outpost. The outpost is not undefended as it has multiple turrets; however, if the player does not intervene, the outpost will be destroyed.

• Space Sweep

  Nym destroys asteroids in an asteroid field. The player gains points by destroying asteroids, mines, and the occasional passing saucer. This mission appears to be a form of the Atari Asteroids game.

Vehicles

These vessels are unlocked for use in every mission by attaining certain gold medals or entering cheat codes.

• Guardian Mantis
• Havoc
• N-1 starfighter
• Sith Infiltrator
• N-X Police Cruiser
• Scarab Droid

Credits

By type

Cast

Uncredited cast

Crew

Uncredited crew

Special thanks

Cast

Darren Scott—Rhys Dallows Charles Rocket—Nym Lisa Fuson—Vana Sage Bernadette Sullivan—Essara Till Wally Wingert—Reti Rob Paulsen—Freighter Captain; Bravo 12; Droid Grey DeLisle—Bravo 8; Rescue 2 Carlos Alazraqui—Pirate Cargo Captain; Mercenary Wing; Rescue 1 Jim Ward—Pirate Ground Control; Wingman 1 Jess Harnell—Pirate Ground Forces; Ric Olié Tom Kane—Mercenary Pilot; Wingman 3 Neil Ross—Wingman 2; Rescue 3; Trade Federation Officer

Appearances

By type

Characters	Organisms	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Stass Allie (Only on special Star Wars: Starfighter game preview) Padmé Amidala (Aboard the Royal Starship) BBQ droid (Non-canonical appearance) Bravo Twelve (First appearance) Reeve Dallows (First mentioned) Rhys Dallows (First appearance) Daphry (First appearance) Jinkins (First appearance) Mod-3 (First appearance) Nolo (First appearance) Nym (First appearance)

Ric Olié Reese (First mentioned) Rescue Leader (First appearance) (Voice only) Reti (First appearance) Vana Sage (First appearance) Anakin Skywalker (Indirect mention only) Essara Till Wrench (First appearance) Unidentified mercenary leader (First appearance) Unidentified N-1 starfighter pilot (First appearance) Unidentified Naboo resistance fighter (First appearance)

Organisms

Exogorth (Mentioned only) (As "space slug," used as insult.) Gundark (Mentioned only)

Droid models

Astromech droid R-series R2-series astromech droid Battle droid B-series battle droid B1 battle droid Droid starfighter Hunter-Seeker droid (First appearance) Scarab-class droid starfighter (First appearance) Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark I Protocol droid (Mentioned only) Turret droid (First appearance)

Events

First Battle of Lok (First appearance) Invasion of Naboo Attempted kidnapping of Queen Amidala (First appearance) Skirmish at Eos (First appearance) Battle of Eos (First appearance) Skirmish over Naboo (First appearance) Mission in the Naboo canyon (First appearance) Raid on the Solleu River (First appearance) Battle of the Naboo resistance base (First appearance) Naboo Space Battle

Locations

Dantooine (Mentioned only) Eos Iego (Mentioned only) Lok Nym's Base Naboo Great Grass Plains Resistance outpost Naboo training canyon (First appearance) Naboo Resistance base (First appearance) Solleu River Camp Three Camp Two Theed Theed Hangar

Organizations and titles

Lok Revenants Mercenary Rescue Flight Royal House of Naboo Monarch of Naboo (Mentioned only) Royal Naboo Security Forces Naboo Royal Space Fighter Corps Bravo Squadron Naboo Resistance Trade Federation Trade Federation Droid Army

Sentient species

Bith Diathim (Mentioned only)(as "angel".) Feeorin (First appearance) Gungan Human Naboo Toydarian

Vehicles and vessels

Artillery Heavy Artillery Gun Speeders Revenant Speeder Single Trooper Aerial Platform V-19 landspeeder Starships C-9979 landing craft Dagger-class starfighter Dianoga-class assault starfighter Evac 1 (First appearance) G-400 Guardian Mantis (First appearance) J-type 327 Nubian royal starship Lucrehulk-class battleship Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship Vuutun Palaa MorningStar-A starfighter MorningStar-B starfighter MorningStar-C starfighter N-1 starfighter Naboo freighter (First appearance) Charm's Way (First appearance) Mercatan (First appearance)

Scurrg H-6 bomber Havoc Sigil Trade Federation Dropship Trade Federation Freighter Trade Federation Missile Frigate Trade Federation Patrol Boat Trade Federation repair ship Trade Federation Superfreighter Velker Zoomer Sith Infiltrator (Non-canonical appearance) Tanks Armored Assault Tank AMT Transports Multi-Troop Transport Rescue Boat (First appearance) Rescue 1 Rescue 2 Rescue 3

Weapons and technology

Deflector shield E-5 blaster rifle Energy bomb Hologram Holoprojector Laser cannon

Mine Missile Nano missile Trade Federation Factory Turret Proton torpedo

Bibliography

• "Gamescape" — Star Wars Insider 50 (First mentioned)
• "Gamescape" — Star Wars Insider 53
• A Whole Fleet of New Games on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• Starfighter Preview on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• Star Wars: Starfighter Premiere at the Sony Metreon on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• Star Wars: Starfighter Goes Gold on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• Playing Favorites: A Quick look at LucasArts' Starfighter on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• The Evolution of Star Wars: Starfighter on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• Snapshots from the Metreon on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• Star Wars Starfighter: Special Edition on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• Star Wars Starfighter: SE Game Trailer on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• "State of the Arts" — Star Wars Gamer 6
• LucasArts Revives Classic Gaming Titles on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• Star Wars: Force for Change Announces New Star Wars Humble Bundle III to Benefit UNICEF on StarWars.com (backup link)

External links

• Star Wars: Starfighter on Wikipedia
• Star Wars: Starfighter at the Internet Movie Database
• Star Wars: Starfighter official site on LucasArts.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• GameSpot review of PS2 version of Starfighter: 7.8 (Good)
• GameSpot review of PC version of Starfighter: 6.7 (Fair)
• Star Wars: Starfighter on MobyGames

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