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- "Ten sectors were sealed away behind a barrier that prevents hyperspace jumps into the Exclusion Zone. Communications in and out of this region have failed, and the Nihil have begun to expand their presence in the Outer Rim. Wherever they rule, horrific brutality follows."
- ―Harli Cogra about the Occlusion Zone sectors, in Chronicles of the Jedi
The Lol sector was a sector in the Outer Rim Territories that bordered the Merel, Skine, and Tolonda sectors. During the High Republic Era, the sector fell within the Galactic Republic's Galactic Frontier exploration region. The Lol sector became part of the Occlusion Zone following its formation in 230 BBY as one of ten sectors sealed behind a barrier preventing hyperspace travel.
Description[]
The Lol sector was a space sector located in the Outer Rim Territories. The sector bordered the Merel, Skine, and Tolonda sectors.[1]
History[]
Harli Cogra documented the formation of the Occlusion Zone, of which the Lol sector was part of, in Chronicles of the Jedi.
During the High Republic Era, the Galactic Republic designated a section of the Outer Rim—which included the Lol sector—as the Galactic Frontier, locations considered removed far enough from the galaxy's center to send explorers there.[2] In 230 BBY, the Nihil marauder organization formed the Occlusion Zone—an area of space in the Outer Rim's Frontier that was situated behind the Stormwall barrier preventing hyperspace travel.[3]
As one of the ten sectors forming the boundary of the Occlusion Zone, the Lol sector was cut off from the rest of Republic space[1] and the worlds within it were forced to pay tributes to the Nihil.[4] Weeks afterward, in 229 BBY,[5] the Vurk Jedi Master Harli Cogra wrote a book titled Chronicles of the Jedi, which detailed the Jedi of the High Republic Era. In the book's afterword, Cogra lamented the formation of the Nihil's region and the ten sectors it affected.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
In the current canon, the Lol sector was first identified in the first issue of the 2023 Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures comic series.
In the current Star Wars canon, the ten sectors forming the Occlusion Zone were first mentioned, albeit unidentified, in a flashback in the second issue of the Star Wars: The High Republic: Eye of the Storm comic-book miniseries. The issue was written by Charles Soule and released by Marvel Comics[6] on March 2, 2022[7] as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase I.[8] The Lol sector was later identified by name and specified to be one of the Occlusion Zone sectors via a map in the first issue of the 2023 comic series Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures. The issue was written by Daniel José Older, illustrated by Harvey Tolibao and Nick Brokenshire, and published by Dark Horse Comics[1] as part of Phase III on December 6, 2023.[9]
The Lol sector originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in the 1993 sourcebook Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments from the Rim, authored by Simon Smith and Eric S. Trautmann and published for use with West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.[10] The StarWars.com Online Companion to the 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry later placed the Drexel system in the sector.[11] The Drexel system had first appeared in the ninth issue of Marvel Comics' 1977 comic-book series Star Wars, which was written by Roy Thomas, illustrated by Howard Chaykin,[12] and published on December 13, 1977,[13] thus retroactively becoming the first appearance of the Lol sector.[12]
Appearances[]
- The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 2 (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only) (In flashback(s))
- The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness (Indirect mention only)
- The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness audiobook (Indirect mention only)
- The High Republic Adventures (2023) 1 (First identified as Lol sector)
Sources[]
- Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi (Indirect mention only)
- Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia (Indirect mention only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The High Republic Adventures (2023) 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi — Based on corresponding data for the Occlusion Zone
- ↑ Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia
- ↑ The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness
- ↑ Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi establishes that the in-universe book Chronicles of the Jedi was written weeks after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, which Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates to 230 BBY. The issuing of the Guardian Protocols, dated by The High Republic Character Encyclopedia to 229 BBY, are depicted in The High Republic: Shadows of Starlight 1 as taking place one week after Starlight Beacon's destruction. With this, Chronicles of the Jedi must have been authored no earlier than 229 BBY. Chronicles of the Jedi further establishes that Pra-Tre Veter is still a Grand Master of the Jedi Order, meaning it was written before his death, which The High Republic Character Encyclopedia states took place in 229 BBY. Therefore, Chronicles of the Jedi must have been written in 229 BBY.
- ↑ The High Republic: Eye of the Storm 2
- ↑
Star Wars: The High Republic - Eye of the Storm (2022) #2 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
- ↑
Star Wars: The High Republic Chronological Reader's Guide on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
- ↑
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Phase III #1 on Dark Horse Comics' official website (backup link)
- ↑ Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments from the Rim
- ↑ Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Star Wars (1977) 9
- ↑ Star Wars (1977) #9 on Marvel Comics' official website (content now obsolete; backup link)
