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mortallyclearwonderland · 3 years

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Star Wars Alien Species - Asogian

Brodo Asogi, also known as the Green Planet, was a planet that was the homeworld of the Asogian species. It was located near the border of the Outer Rim Territories and Wild Space, nearby Kalee and Huk.

It was represented by Senator Grebleips and two aides in the Galactic Senate. According to the HoloNet News, Grebleips was to fund an extragalactic expedition project shortly before the Clone Wars.

By 33 BBY, the Asogians were represented in the Galactic Senate of the Republic by Senator Grebleips and three aides. Before the onslaught of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY, Grebleips notably declared his intention to fund an extra-galactic expedition project. At the end of the war, the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic Palpatine transformed the existing regime into the First Galactic Empire, with himself as Emperor. The Asogian Grebleips and sixty-two other delegates were charged with conspiracy and treason for helping plot the so-called revolt of the Jedi Order against Palpatine. Like countless other planets, the homeworld of the Asogians fell into the Galactic Empire's hands.

During the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic, a disabled Asogian named Braxas made a career as an infochant on the planet of Solay, in the Dominus sector of the Outer Rim Territories. When the Galactic Empire seized Solay, the Asogian decided to leave the planet. Braxas then hired Luke Skywalker, a young hero of the Alliance and a skilled pilot, to transport him offworld.

The physical appearance of the PK-series worker droid was modeled on that of the Asogians.

Like many other species, including the reptilian Anx of Gravlex Med, and the furry Togorians of Togoria, the Asogians routinely went about their business unclothed. They used grub-sticks as eating utensils, and at least some of them consumed meat.

Asogians were paddle-footed sentients, small-sized and squat, with long arms that could touch the ground as they walked. Their hands ended in four long fingers. Their head, dominated by two large eyes, was perched atop an extensible neck. Some Asogians had brown, completely hairless skin, while others were yellow-skinned with scattered black hair on the head. Possible eye colors included blue and red.

Examples of Names: Grebleips, Braxas.

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intuitive-revelations · 5 years

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DEEP DIVE: How E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Doctor Who both agree that Star Wars is set in the Andromeda Galaxy

Based on evidence connecting each of these universes, there are two possible ways of deducing the location of the galaxy in which the Star Wars franchise takes place. First we examine the connections E.T. and Doctor Who have with Star Wars, then we look at what these connections can tell us.

Star Wars and E.T. the Extraterrestrial

This is quite a well known one. First, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial featured a Star Wars easter egg in which E.T., upon seeing a child in a Yoda Halloween costume, recognises it from “home”.

In response, George Lucas later included a cameo from E.T.’s species, the “Asogians”, in The Phantom Menace, as part of the Galactic Senate. This name actually originates itself from the book sequel E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet, which reveals one name of E.T.’s home-world to be “Brodo Asogi”.

HoloNews Net, a Legends tie-in publication promoting Attack of the Clones, later hinted at a direct link, with the headline stating that the Asogian Senator Grebleips (yes, Spielberg backwards) was funding an extragalactic survey - implying it was through this survey that E.T. found himself in the Milky Way.

Star Wars and the Whoniverse

Perhaps the most direct link between Star Wars and Doctor Who comes in the Tenth Doctor novel Forever Autumn, in which the Doctor calls the Binks clan “very hospitable” and claims that George Lucas came up with the idea for Star Wars after accidentally receiving a telepathic message. Apparently Episode IX was, however, way off the mark. Whether the Doctor is referring to the real Episode IX or Lucas’s outline for it is unclear.

Martha may have thought the Doctor was joking, but other in-universe links to the Star Wars universe have continued to leak into Doctor Who.

Aurebesh can actually be seen during the last scene of Nightmare in Silver, on the flagship of a human emperor. It’s difficult to translate, especially as much of it is hidden, but what’s visible doesn’t seem to spell English words, although what’s there could be evolutions of real words (eg. I believe the bottom right and left spell “AWESHEOM”, a possible corruption of “AWESOME”).

In Face the Raven, we again get to see Aurebesh, this time on a poster in a street of alien refugees. The poster spells out “Delorean” next to an image of a flux capacitor, but that’s a whole different story...

According to the Ninth Doctor in Supremacy of the Cybermen, the TARDIS has also raced the Kessel Run.

Hyperspace also exists as a method of interstellar travel in the DW universe. This isn’t itself a Star Wars reference (in fact hyperspace appeared in the Doctor Who expanded universe for the first time as early as 1964, and first appeared explicitly on-screen in 1973), but it’s worth mentioning anyway - especially since the most recent depiction in The Ghost Monument appears inspired by the precise hyperspace exits seen in modern Star Wars.

References to Doctor Who in Star Wars seem to be fairly thin beyond fairly simple connections (eg. the sonic screwdriver exists in the SW universe, both as a tool and as a popular cocktail) One possible example, however, occurs in the fan favourite Clone Wars “Mortis” trilogy. The father describes his son showing Anakin Skywalker his future as Darth Vader as breaking the “Laws of Time”.

In Doctor Who, the Laws of Time were set by the Time Lords. In particular, the First Law, also known as the Protocols of Linearity, forbids interacting with one’s personal past or future - the law the Son broke in the episode. As far as I am aware there are few, if any, other franchises that use the specific phrasing “laws of time”.

So how is Star Wars set in the Andromeda Galaxy?

Proof via E.T. the Extra Terrestrial

This is relatively simple, and you may have seen it before on the internet. As laid out above, E.T. seems to originate from the Star Wars galaxy, being a member of an extra-galactic survey that visited the Milky Way.

The tagline and supplementary material for E.T. the Extra Terrestrial states:

“HE IS AFRAID. HE IS TOTALLY ALONE. HE IS 3,000,000 LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME.”

Star Wars, as commonly depicted, takes place in a large spiral galaxy of a similar order of magnitude to our own.

There is only one other large spiral galaxy in our local group, the Andromeda Galaxy, approximately 2.54 million light years from Earth, which can easily be rounded up to 3 million light years (especially if one assumes that Brodo Asogi, which is canonically quite far from the galactic core, is on the far side of the galaxy at the time of the movie).

Proof via Doctor Who

In Doctor Who, it is quite common to hear galaxies referred to in numbers, such as “The Twelve Galaxies”, or “Galaxy 4″. The reason for this numbering has yet to actually be confirmed, but it seems to follow the expansion of human civilisation throughout the universe. These names generally, if not always, tend to be references to real-world galaxies. For example, Galaxy 7, the home galaxy of Skaro, was revealed in The Eyeless to refer to the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy. (I’ll shortly be posting a full analysis based on this numbering system.)

When the Sixth Doctor believed he was on Spiridon in the audio story Brotherhood of the Daleks, he described it at different points in the story as being “in a galaxy far away” (which may sound a bit familiar...), “in the ninth galaxy”, and in the “galaxy of Antares”. That last one is a bit odd as it seemingly refers to the star Antares, which is actually in our own galaxy, apparently contradicting the other names.

Except it turns out that there is one other case of a star named Antares, a fictional one from... the Star Wars galaxy.

Galaxy 9 was previously mentioned as the “ninth galactic system” waaayyy back in 1965′s Mission to the Unknown where it was, similarly to E.T.’s home, referred to as being “millions of light years” from the Milky Way and a place where, like Spiridon, a number of planets were being occupied by the Daleks.

That would have been enough on its own to theorise that the Ninth Galaxy, home of Spiridon and Antares, is the Andromeda Galaxy. But, even better, this is actually confirmed in the novelisation of Mission to the Unknown where references to the “ninth galactic system” are directly replaced with mentions of Andromeda!

Problems with the theory and their solutions

Some have raised issues with this theory. One example points out that, in the grand scheme of the universe, the Andromeda Galaxy isn’t exactly “far, far away”. In fact it’s practically next door.

However, I think it’s a bit of a stretch to instantly reject this theory based on these terms. After all, 2,540,000 ly is, even for an interstellar species as we might see in Star Wars, an extremely long distance. And while Andromeda might be the closest large galaxy to us, there are many much smaller ones in-between. (In fact, according to From a Certain Point of View, the phrase “far, far away” was actually contested between the Whills during their writing of the Star Wars Saga.)

The main other contention with this theory is that the Andromeda Galaxy doesn’t perfectly match what we known about the galaxy Star Wars is set in. For example, the SW galaxy is something over 100,000 ly in diameter, whereas Andromeda has been measured to be about 220,000 ly in diameter. But, I’d argue that this could be a semantic difference, based on what is considered ‘part of the galaxy’. After all we have some conflict on defining the expanse of the Milky Way in real life, taking the diameter to potentially be anything from 100,000 to 200,000 ly. It’s reasonable to assume that sentient species living within Andromeda could have similar debates. Other differences, such as the predicted number of stars, can be explained away in a similar way.

#Star Wars #E.T. the Extra Terrestrial #Doctor Who #Big Finish #The Phantom Menace #Mission to the Unknown #Space #Andromeda Galaxy #DW Theory #SW Theory #Reference #classic who #Doctor Who EU #Face the Raven #Forever Autumn #Nightmare in Silver

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fanthatracks · 2 years

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Prop Store: The Empire Strikes Back 'Gone With The Wind' UK A Quad sells for £15,000

The latest Prop Store poster auction brought in huge numbers.

The latest Prop Store ‘Rare and Iconic Film and Music‘ posters auction took place on 15th September, and not only did it impress with a grand total of £430,000 but two Star Wars and an E.T piece (John Williams, ILM, Grebleips sit in the Republic senate, E.T is a close cousin of the GFFA) stood out. Propstore – one of the world’s leading film and TV memorabilia companies, has today announced…

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irrfahrer · 4 years

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Wookiepedia on Tynnans in the Galaxy

Original Text should be read Here! Tynnans in the Galaxy Bowspritz was a Tynnan Jedi Master active some time before the Ruusan Reformation. Due to the wealth of their planet and the state-run economy, many Tynnans were free to travel the galaxy as tourists; two such Tynnans who settled offworld were Cham and Nog Teleus. Around 29 BBY, they moved to the Cularin system after making fortunes working in industry. The pair hosted a large celebration to mark the 125th anniversary of the Cularin Compact, during which some of their artworks were stolen. The recovery of the items eventually led to the rescue of Jedi Knight Ji-Ad Sarain, who had been frozen in carbonite. Another notable Tynnan during this period was Senator Streamdrinker, who served in the Senate as a result of his election by lottery and was a signatory on the Petition of 2000—a group of senators urging the Supreme Chancellor to give up some of the emergency powers granted him for the duration of the Clone Wars. This political association later led to his arrest by Imperial Intelligence as one of sixty-three senators charged with conspiracy and treason in relation to the Jedi Insurgency. Along with peers such as Senators Grebleips and Fang Zar, Streamdrinker was held in custody and encouraged to name his accomplices. During the reign of the Galactic Empire, the Tynnan Odumin attained the powerful post of Territorial Administrator in the Corporate Sector Authority. He received his promotion after an undercover mission in which he saved the life of High Inquisitor Laddinare Torbin from an attack by the religious cult known as the Church of the First Frequency. Following his promotion, he kept his identity as a Tynnan a secret, and so was able to continue on undercover missions. In this role, he cracked numerous slaving and criminal operations in the Corporate Sector, such as the Xiochi slaver gang. On one notable undercover mission, he posed as a debt collector named Spray. Working alongside Han Solo, he managed to stop a highly placed slaver ring. Odumin later released his memoirs and was regarded as a hero on his homeworld. Many Tynnans were encouraged by his success to take more active roles in the galaxy. A less auspicious Tynnan was the professional thief and demolitions expert Dawson. Having spent eighteen years free of responsibility on Tynna, he was selected in the lottery to fill a role in the Tynnan government. Horrified at the prospect, he fled and eventually joined up with Cecil Noone and his crew of professional thieves. Dawson brought his demolitions skills to their tasks, most notably in the heist of a Hapan Gun of Command from the Ithorian Herdship Song of the Clouds. The team struggled to find a buyer for their unique item and was forced to approach the dangerous Krish hunter Tyro Viveca. This contact turned the tables on Noone, hunting the thief in his compound on Kabal. It was only Dawson's demolitions skills that enabled the team of thieves to defeat Viveca and escape the planet. During the Yuuzhan Vong War, a number of Tynnans escaped the slave camps on their world and joined the numerous refugees circulating the galaxy. Following the establishment of the Galactic Alliance, a Tynnan diplomat accompanied Alliance commander Gar Stazi on a peace-keeping observation tour to Kuthard in the Sepan sector.

#inspiration #zivs species! :D #I used aspects of all the noteable tynnan for ziv #obviously bowspritz for her beeing a jedi. cham and nogs story is a part used where ziv is frozen into cabonite etc etc etc #REALLY! BLESS WOOKIEPEDIA AND ERVERYONE WORKING ON IT #WITHOUT WOOKIEPEDIA I WOULD HAVE NEVER FOUND ABOUT ABOT THE AWESOME TYNNAN :DDD

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violetsystems · 5 years

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The Asogians originated in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, the first movie in the prequel trilogy of Star Wars, as a cameo appearance of the famous aliens of Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Those creatures were inserted in the movie to make good on a promise—after Steven Spielberg included a Yoda cameo and Star Wars toys in E.T., George Lucas promised to include an E.T. cameo in the next Star Wars film he made—The Phantom Menace. While this was primarily an easter egg, and E.T. is probably not meant to be taken as part of Star Wars canon, some Star Wars references in E.T. can be reinterpreted in light of the E.T. references in Star Wars.[13]

E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet, a sequel novel to the movie, reveals "Children of the Green Planet" to be the translated name of E.T.'s species. It also mentions several names which other alien species have given E.T.'s homeworld, such as Brodo Asogi, all of which translate to "Green Planet."[14] While a species with the same name and appearance is itself part of Star Wars canon, and the homeworld name is given in Cloak of Deception, the species name is not specified.

When E.T. goes trick-or-treating with the children, he spots a child in a Yoda mask and begins to follow that child saying "Home… home…" (Composer John Williams included a snippet of his "Yoda Theme" from The Empire Strikes Back to accompany this scene.) This could be interpreted as E.T. recognizing a familiar species from his home galaxy.[15]

HoloNet News Vol. 531 50 also mentions that Senator Grebleips of Brodo Asogi funded an expedition to another galaxy. This is another reference to E.T., since E.T. visits Earth from another galaxy in the film.

The name of the Senator itself, 'Grebleips', is 'Spielberg' spelled backwards.

Pat Welsh, the woman who did the voice for E.T. in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, also did the voice for the bounty hunter Boushh in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.[16]

In his novella SkyeWalkers: A Clone Wars Story, author Abel G. Peña mentioned "a pair of Asogian grub-sticks," which was specifically meant to refer to the chopsticks used by Braxas in Star Wars 89: I'll See You in the Throne Room. In doing this, Peña simultaneously named the species and confirmed Braxas as one of them.[17]

E.T. also made a cameo appearance in "Hate Leads to Lollipops", a light-hearted comic story by David McCaig, where he was seen among the patrons of the Mon Calamari Fish Market. That particular panel also included characters belonging to other science-fiction movies, namely Derek from Teenagers from Outer Space, the Mutant from This Island Earth, and Mac from Mac and Me.[18]

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Asogian/Legends

#et #steven speilberg #star wars #phantom menace #george lucas

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