Star Wars Galaxy Maps
Posted: 2006-08-24 03:49pm
I've discovered another field in the Star Wars EU and fandom which annoys me: The maps of the Star Wars galaxy.
From Attack of the Clones, we learned what the Star Wars galaxy looks like (a Sb-type galaxy perhaps?) and we learned the approximate location of Tatooine and Geonosis, on the edge of an arm. From the TPM novel we learned that Naboo was located on the edge of the galaxy (which fits rather well with the aforementioned planets), but why is it that both the official (with the notable exception of the ItW maps) and the fan made maps ignores what we learn from the highest canon and chooses to go with the cartoon map from the NJO? The latest version of the Nav-Computer.com map has, for some reason (it's popular, but unofficial), been included in the Galaxy entry over at Wookieepedia (in the Sources section) and I frankly don't understand why that map is so popular. It's based on the cartoon map (which looks more like an irregular galaxy than a spiral galaxy), the locations of the planets whose location we know from the highest canon doesn't match and half of it is empty (i.e. belongs to the "Unknown Regions"
). Why is it that the cartoon map still survives, why don't people care what the movies shows and why the insistence on keeping the Unknown Regions inside the galactic disc?
From Attack of the Clones, we learned what the Star Wars galaxy looks like (a Sb-type galaxy perhaps?) and we learned the approximate location of Tatooine and Geonosis, on the edge of an arm. From the TPM novel we learned that Naboo was located on the edge of the galaxy (which fits rather well with the aforementioned planets), but why is it that both the official (with the notable exception of the ItW maps) and the fan made maps ignores what we learn from the highest canon and chooses to go with the cartoon map from the NJO? The latest version of the Nav-Computer.com map has, for some reason (it's popular, but unofficial), been included in the Galaxy entry over at Wookieepedia (in the Sources section) and I frankly don't understand why that map is so popular. It's based on the cartoon map (which looks more like an irregular galaxy than a spiral galaxy), the locations of the planets whose location we know from the highest canon doesn't match and half of it is empty (i.e. belongs to the "Unknown Regions"
). Why is it that the cartoon map still survives, why don't people care what the movies shows and why the insistence on keeping the Unknown Regions inside the galactic disc?