comparable to how the United States or Canada could be called 'the colonies' of Great Britain). The name is somewhat of a misnomer, as they have grown nearly as powerful as the 'Core Worlds' themselves, though their histories aren't quite as long or prestigious (i.e.

The Colonies – the first colonies founded by the nascent Galactic Republic in ancient times.

On-screen examples include Coruscant, Corellia, Alderaan, and Hosnian Prime.

Core Worlds – powerful and wealthy planets with millennia-long histories, many of them founding members of the Galactic Republic.

Densely-packed with stars, nebulae, and other anomalies, it is therefore thinly settled due to the resulting high radiation levels and lack of stable hyperspace routes.

Deep Core – the innermost brightly lit region of space, with a supermassive black hole at the center which binds the galaxy together.

Standardized galactic time measurements are also based on Coruscant's local solar day and year.Īccording to the updated Visual Dictionary series made by Pablo Hidalgo for the Sequel Trilogy, these are the general regions of the galaxy spreading outward from the Core: As the capital planet of the Republic and later the Empire, Coruscant is used as the reference point for galactic astronomy, set at XYZ coordinates 0-0-0. The canon map depicts a top-down view of the galactic disk, with 'north' as the side of the galactic center that Coruscant is located on. The galaxy has at least two companion-satellite dwarf galaxies, one of which is known as the Rishi Maze, but they are very lightly settled or explored. Major galactic sub-regions are further divided into quadrants, sectors, etc., down to individual star systems and planets. Worlds of the Outer Rim are rich in raw resources but lack the population, infrastructure, or political power of the Core.

Waves of colonization (and conquest) by the Republic gradually spread outward from the Core, into the sparser systems at the galaxy's edge, such as Tatooine. The first major interstellar powers in the core are stated to have risen many millennia ago, gradually coalescing into the early Galactic Republic, with its capital at Coruscant. The new canon map is broadly similar to the later versions of the Legends galactic map.Īs a general rule, most of the galaxy's wealth, power, and population are concentrated near the middle of the galactic circle – the 'Core Worlds'. Their exact definitions fluctuated somewhat during the Legends continuity, but were later formally updated by the new canon continuity when Disney purchased Lucasfilm. The Star Wars galaxy contains several broad sub-regions.

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