Star Wars Encyclopedia

A-1 Deluxe Floater: A luxury air speeder, it features automated steering and fine Corellian leather. It is manufactured by Mobquet Swoops and Speeders. [CCG] A-3DO: A multitalented service droid owned by Jedi Andur Sunrider, the robot was a crack mechanic and copilot who witnessed his master's death at the hands of a criminal gang headed by Great Bogga the Hutt some 4,000 years before the Battle of Yavin. Called ThreeDee for short, the droid then aided Andur's wife, Nomi, as she reluctantly trained to learn the ways of the Jedi. [TOJ] A-9 Vigilance Interceptor: An Imperial starfighter, this short-range fighter was introduced about six years after the Battle of Endor, soon after Grand Admiral Thrawn's defeat. The A-9 Vigilance Interceptor gives up shields and hyperdrive for speed. Faster than TIE interceptors, it's about equal to the New Republic's A-wing fighters. Imperial forces use its forward-firing laser cannons for hit-and-run attacks on hardened Republic installations. However, overall performance is less than hoped for because of its limited maneuverabil-ity and relatively weak hull. [DE, SWVG] Aalun, Syron: One of a trio of famous Gand ruetsavii, or observers, who were sent to observe Rogue Squadron pilot Ooryl Qyrgg's life and determine his worthiness to become janwuine. The highest possible honor in the communal Gand society, janwuine involves the right of an individual to speak of himself in the first person and to use personal pronouns in conversation. The ruetsavii not only observed Qyrgg's activities but also participated fully in the squadron as fighter pilots and undercover operatives. [BW] Aba: The name young Jacen Solo gave to his Wookiee doll. [CS] A'baht, General Etahn: Assigned as commander of the New Republic's Fifth Fleet because of experience leading his native Dornean Navy against Imperial forces, A'baht had a leathery face that flushed purple and eye folds that swelled and fanned out. His flagship was the fleet carrier Intrepid, and he declared the fleet operational following the live-fire exercise Hammerblow. Defying specific orders from Princess Leia Organa to stay out of the unexplored Koornacht Cluster, he sent the survey ship Astrolabe to Doornik-1142, hoping to get good military intelligence. Yevethan forces, which had been roiling the sector and undertaking xenophobic extermination campaigns, destroyed the Astrolabe. Ambassador Nil Spaar, viceroy of the Duskhan League, declared the incident an act of aggression by the New Republic and prepared to go to war. General A'baht then led the deployment of the Fifth Fleet to the cluster and blockaded Doornik-319, where the Yevetha were mounting their forces. When the fleet came under withering attack, General A'baht was forced to withdraw. Princess Leia Organa Solo then relieved him of command and substituted her husband, Han Solo. [BTS] Abano: A poor farmer on Aruza, he was the father of Manaroo, a tattooed dancing girl who eventually married the bounty hunter Dengar. [TBH] Abbaji: The planet where the famous 100-meter-tall firethorn trees grow in a single grove of the Irugian Rain Forest. Prince Xizor, head of the Black Sun criminal organization, was given a 600-year-old dwarf firethorn tree as a peace offering by a business rival. The tree, less than half a meter high, had been in the man's family for ten generations and was considered by Xizor to be one of his most prized possessions. [SOTE] abo: Old Imperial slang for native inhabitants of a planet, often used in a derogatory manner. [SME] Abrax: An aquamarine cognac with spicy vapors. The best vintages were produced during the Old Republic. [BW] Abregado-rae: A manufacturing and trade-oriented planet in the Abregado sySansweet, Stephen J. is the author of 'Star Wars Encyclopedia', published 1999 under ISBN 9780345915801 and ISBN 0345915801.