The
Star Wars Universe
Andor Season 2 Pitch Document (PNG) – This pitch paper by Tony Gilroy for Andor Season 2 lays out the basic plot to be followed. WARNING: SPOILERS INSIDE!
Rogue One Spoken Dialogue Transcript
A New Hope Spoken Dialogue Transcript
Empire Strikes Back Spoken Dialogue Transcript
Return of the Jedi Spoken Dialogue Transcript -- Includes some scenes from the 1997+ later Special Edition.
Star Wars Source
Compendium (v1.1) (17 August 2025) – This is a
compilation of a variety of sources, from the transcripts of the
actual movies themselves, the official novelizations and the old
WEG sourcebooks to provide a significant amount of information on
the universe of Star Wars, suitable for use in “versus”
debates, with everything sourced down to at least the chapter or
book in question.
Galactic Empire Databank Archive (22.1 MB ZIP) - This is an Internet Archive skim of the old galacticempiredatabank.com website which died about maybe eight years ago. It had a lot of old WEG-era material transcribed and in one place for easy consultation. I assembled this from multiple sources, including two Tripod Sites. Back in the day, Tripod would give you a free site (with ads). The catch was that total webspace was about 5-10 MB maximum; so people got multiple Tripod sites and spread the information across multiple sites, linking from each site to the next.
Galactic Empire Sourcebook - This is an attempt at gathering enough information from across the dozens of exant WEG Sourcebooks to enable players and gamesmasters to quickly and efficiently run their own campaigns, rather than being forced to page across several books. Additionally, it will take advantage of being written with the Prequels "in the can"; unlike the original WEG material. In short, I hope to try and generate a more coherent Star Wars universe that can be used, along with detailing sections of the universe which were only briefly mentioned in the original WEG source material such as the Imperial Customs Service and Imperial Bureau of Taxation.
Ship of Riddles (circa 1999) [EXTERNAL LINK] - This is an Internet Archive link to Robert Brown's influential site "Ship of Riddles" (http://www.synicon.com.au/sw/mf/falcon.htm) which ran from the mid 1990s to around 2004-05 when he shut it down. He's notable for being the first person to really sit down and try to figure out how the Falcon was actually laid out from on-screen evidence and trying to fit it all together coherently. Hint; it doesn't. The best you can get is maybe 85% accuracy.
Star Wars Deckplans Alliance [EXTERNAL LINK] - This is an extremely long running site (since maybe 1998?) that centers around extremely detailed and well laid out deckplans that geometrically fit the ship designs for medium to small scale ships (Millennium Falcon sized) for use in Star Wars RPGs.
Star Wars Design Alliance [EXTERNAL LINK] - Latest incarnation of a very old website (their previous server which went defunct in 2014 was www.swdesignalliance.com) devoted to deck plans. You will have to register to see the good stuff.
The Death Star and Alderaan's Planetary Shield (v1.0) (Aug 2025) – If you examine the destruction of Alderaan from the original 35mm frames, you'll see that it did in fact, have a planetary shield capable of resisting (!) the Death Star's superlaser for a fraction.
A Coherent Imperial Rank System (v2.0) (Aug 2025) – This is my second attempt at trying to make a
coherent Imperial Rank system, rather than the “lets make
stuff up as we go” that we got from the propmasters. It throws out canon where necessary, in order to be internally self-consistent.
An Imperial Rank Scheme utilizing Subtractive Colors v1.0 (Aug 2025)– This is my attempt at a quick and dirty "subtractive" rank system for the Galactic Empire.
Doomriser's
Skim of the 2E Imperial Sourcebook (Aug 2002) –
From 14 August 2002 to 17 August 2002; the user "Doomriser"
on Usenet's alt.startrek.vs.starwars reviewed a copy of the
Imperial Sourcebook, 2E and provided running commentary; allowing
significant quotes to be preserved through fair use.
Thelea's
Imperial Navy Calculations – A very old
(c.2000/2001) series of calculations from a long dead internet
newsgroup by “Commander Thelea” on just what the
“Imperial Starfleet” would contain in terms of ships.
Lord
Sander's Imperial Army Battlegroup Strength Calculations
(August 2002) – A very old set of calculations up to
Battlegroup (Division) size of the Imperial Army based off
information in the WEG Imperial Sourcebook, 2E.
Lord Miles'
Sector Group Calculations (v1.0) (18 Aug 2002) – In
this early sequence of calculations, Lord Miles tried to recreate
the Imperial Sourcebook's Naval OOB as closely as possible.
Lord Miles'
Sector Group Calculations (v2.2) (24 Aug 2002) – In
this sequence of calculations, Lord Miles moved away from
adhering strictly to the Imperial Sourcebook towards
configurations "inspired" by the Sourcebook.
Estimating the Size of the
Imperial Fleet – This is my attempt at estimating
the size of the Imperial Starfleet based off the sketchy
information we got.
Imperial Fleet
Calculator/Estimator – This is a HTML based browser
calculator that lets you play with variables to estimate the
rough size of the Imperial Starfleet by ship type and number per
ship type.
The Death Star(s) – How
Big? How Wasteful? – Analyzing the size and
economic impact of the Death Stars on the Imperial fleet.
Cost and Economics of the
TIE Fighter – Some examination of why TIE Fighters
appear to be so cheap “in universe” with little
shielding or hyperdrives.
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