Star Wars Game Lore
Where the characters, eras, and stories in Star Wars games actually come from, traced back to the films, shows, comics, and concept art, with every claim sourced.
Episode I: Racer is the best thing to come out of the worst Star Wars movie
LucasArts shipped Episode I: Racer a day before The Phantom Menace, built it in under two years on a reused engine, and sold 3.12 million copies. How it was made, how the ports and the 2020 remaster held up, and why the Galactic Racer team still plays it.
Embo & Keibu: the bounty hunter Dave Filoni kept alive for sixteen years
SWGOH's Embo & Keibu is a Conquest unit built from a hat, a hound and a Clone Wars extra who was supposed to die in his first episode. Here is where he comes from and whether to chase him.
Jaxxon: the green rabbit Marvel put in Star Wars, and SWGOH put on the holotable
SWGOH's Jaxxon is the six-foot green rabbit Roy Thomas drew into Marvel's Star Wars in 1977, the rabbit George Lucas wanted gone, and now a Prepared Scoundrel attacker that Darth Jar Jar needs at seven stars.
Stormtrooper (Concept): when stormtroopers carried lightsabers
SWGOH's newest Tank is Ralph McQuarrie's 1975 stormtrooper, shield and lightsaber included, from the drafts where the Empire's troops carried the weapon the Jedi later kept for themselves. The kit, the Darth Jar Jar connection, and whether to spend.
Starkiller (Luke Concept): the Luke that almost was
SWGOH's newest character is the hero of a movie that never got made: Luke Starkiller, the name Mark Hamill carried into filming in 1976. And whether to spend.
Yoda (Dark Side Vision): the monster Yoda had to admit was his
SWGOH's Sith Yoda is the dark-side manifestation Yoda fought in The Clone Wars season six, and the kit is built around the lesson that fight taught him.
Mara Jade Skywalker: the character Lucasfilm can't put back
SWGOH's Mara Jade is the Emperor's assassin who married Luke Skywalker, the most beloved figure in Legends and the one Lucasfilm keeps leaving out of canon.