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- "I'm sure Chancellor Greylark will agree that we had to seize this opportunity. […]"
"Please, Chancellor Mollo. To what opportunity are you referring?"
"For the Republic and the Jedi to bring peace to this system and beyond! We've received requests for aid from Sump and Shuraden. We've gotten word Merokia has cut off all ties to E'ronoh. This war is now affecting the trade routes in the Koradin sector." - ―Supreme Chancellor Orlen Mollo and Creighton Sun
Sump was a terrestrial[3] planet[5] located in the regions known as the Outer Rim Territories[1] and the Western Reaches.[2] Situated in grid square I-18 of the Standard Galactic Grid, it was linked by hyperspace routes to the Eiram system as well as[1] the planets[6][7] Merokia and Shuraden.[1] The planet was the homeworld of the sentient Nuknog species,[3] including[8] the offworld podracer Ark Roose.[3]
In 382 BBY,[9] the war fought between the Eiram system's planets Eiram and E'ronoh also affected worlds beyond the system, including Sump. The latter planet eventually submitted multiple requests for aid from the Galactic Republic, a fact that the Republic's Supreme Chancellor Orlen Mollo noted to Jedi Master Creighton Sun at one point around that year.[4] At some point, Sump was mentioned in an entry of an artist's journal dedicated to the Nuknog. The journal was restored, expanded, and displayed at the Graf Archive[3] at some point no earlier than 34 ABY.[10]
Behind the scenes[]
Sump was introduced into the current Star Wars canon by the mobile app Star Wars: Force Collection,[8] which was released on September 4, 2013.[11] Although its release predates the reset of the Star Wars canon on April 25, 2014, following The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of the franchise,[12] Lucasfilm Story Group member Leland Chee later confirmed that the game was kept updated to fit with canon.[13]
Sump originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where it was first mentioned in the 2000 reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I by Kristin Lund.[14] The world was given its first visual depiction on a map of the galaxy included with the fifth issue of the Star Wars Gamer magazine,[15] which was published on July 24, 2001.[16]
Appearances[]
- The High Republic: Convergence (Mentioned only)
- The High Republic: Convergence audiobook (Mentioned only)
- The High Republic Adventures (2021) 1 (Picture only) (Based on correspondence between the galactic map and maps in other sources)
Sources[]
Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: Ark Roose (★)) (First mentioned)- Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game
- Star Wars: Complete Locations, 2016 edition
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
- Star Wars: Alien Archive
- The High Republic Free Digital Sampler (Picture only) (Based on correspondence between the galactic map and maps in other sources)
"The First Order" — Star Wars Encyclopedia- "Exegol, the Unknown Regions and Wild Space" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars Galaxy Map
SWCA 2022: 7 Things We Learned from the Lucasfilm Publishing Behind the Page Panel on StarWars.com (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Star Wars Galaxy Map
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars Galaxy Map places Sump in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Western Reaches.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Star Wars: Alien Archive
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The High Republic: Convergence
- ↑ Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
- ↑ Force Collector
- ↑ The High Republic (2021) 1
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: Ark Roose (★))
- ↑ Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates the events of The High Republic: Convergence to 382 BBY.
- ↑ Star Wars: Alien Archive, which is presented as a restored in-universe journal, mentions Poe Dameron's mutiny against Amilyn Holdo, which is depicted in Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi. The Star Wars Book places the events of The Last Jedi in the same year as the events of Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 34 ABY, meaning the document must have been published at some point no earlier than that year.
- ↑ Announcing Star Wars: Force Collection on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns a New Page on StarWars.com (backup link)
- ↑
Leland Chee (@holocronkeeper) on Twitter: "I'm not gonna go through the trouble of changing them and I don't have any reason to believe currently that anyone would. […] On the off-chance that we DID have a current need to change any of these, we would have for Force Collection." (screenshot)
— Leland Chee of the Lucasfilm Story Group has confirmed that in-universe information found within Star Wars: Force Collection conforms with Star Wars canon.
- ↑ Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I
- ↑
Galaxy map poster — Star Wars Gamer 5
- ↑
Gamer #5. A Domain of Evil it is. on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
