- "There they discovered ancient technology indicating that the system's planets were artificial constructs, the likely creations of the alien Architects who had built the Corellian system. The dark-siders harnessed the machines (including the extraordinary Cosmic Turbine) but could not control them, and soon annihilated themselves along with the entire planetary system."
- ―A Galactic Alliance historical document
Vultar was a planet[3] located in the Vultar system,[2] a part of the Arrowhead region in the Slice portion of the Core Worlds.[1] Evidence pointed to the Celestials,[4] an advanced species that disappeared from the galaxy in 30,000 BBY,[5] having used a set of devices,[4] including[6] the gravity-manipulation machine known as the Cosmic Turbine,[5] to construct the Vultar system,[4] including its planets.[2]
In 4250 BBY,[2] when a group of Dark Jedi activated those same devices, including the Cosmic Turbine, in order to use them against their enemy, the Jedi Order, a catastrophic accident instead destroyed the machines, the darksiders, and the entire Vultar system,[4] leaving behind the Vultar Nebula.[7] Millennia later, the fate of the Vultar system's planets was recorded in a document by the Historical Council of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, published in 36 ABY.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
The 2005 reference book The New Essential Chronology by Daniel Wallace and Kevin J. Anderson was the first source to mention the planets of the Vultar system.[2] The planet Vultar was subsequently identified in 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.[3] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Vultar system, and therefore the planet itself, in grid square L-10.[1]
Sources[]
- The New Essential Chronology (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only)
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III ("Vultar Cataclysm") (First identified as Vultar)
- The Essential Atlas
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The Essential Atlas — Based on corresponding data for Vultar system
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 The New Essential Chronology
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 314 ("Vultar Cataclysm")
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3
Star Wars: The Old Republic — Codex: "Galactic History 39: The Third Great Schism"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Essential Atlas
- ↑ The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 148 ("Cosmic Turbine")
- ↑
Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare Author's Cut — The Celestials on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)