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From the Ep2 Novelisation

The Republic was built on tolerance. It was a vast network, of tens of thousands of systems.

From the Ep4 novlisation

This station is the final link in the new-forged Imperial chain which will bind the million systems of the Galactic Empire together once and for all.

Whoa, the Republic/Empire goes up at least 10 times its size in 20 years, cool. I just thought I'd share this with you. As I bought the book of AOTC yesterday and this shocked me.

It is possible that there is a confusition between the terms star systems and political entities. Naboo for instance is actualy the capital of a union of 36 systems. The trade federation has thousands of systems. Yet both of them are represented singly in the senate. So the tens of thousands of systems statement could actualy represent the number of individual political groups such as the naboo, correlian, the mon calamari etc. The million systems statement is probobly the total number of systems under imperial control.

But there is reference in Dark Empire to some 12 million systems.

Gandalf wrote:But there is reference in Dark Empire to some 12 million systems.

Actually i think Han says "twelve billion"

Indeed, it would appear that in the ANH novelization the word "star system" should've been in place of just "systems". And Tarkin was most likely reffering to words that are populated/industrialized/of any true importance, rather than worlds lying in the edge of the Outer Rim, Wild Space, or the Unknown Regions. When you combine all of the above you'd get Han's quote from DE "twelve million" star systems.

However the word "systems" is appropriate in the AOTC novelization. Since the word can be inferred to be like the Chommel System, which holds alone 36 planets and is lightly populated. Once you add on another ten thousand systems with a number of worlds each in the hundreds if not thousands, you can see how the ANH quote and the AOTC quote fit together.

Or they turned on their sensors one morning and found the galaxy had it's amount of stars increase by a factor of 10 or so.

Gandalf wrote:But there is reference in Dark Empire to some 12 million systems.

Well there are more:
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One Million Member Worlds and 50 million Colonies, Protectorates and Governorships
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-Star Wars The Roleplaying Sourcebook

Gandalf wrote:From the Ep2 Novelisation

The Republic was built on tolerance. It was a vast network, of tens of thousands of systems.

It only refers to the member systems I gather, there are dependancies linked to those too, some extrapolations gives us numbers near the 50 million figure from WEG.