twister111 said:

Does knowing about the "unknown regions" make them known unknown regions? Or does the knowing about the unknown region negate the unknown factor making them known again? Or is there a complete knowingness of the unknown regions that makes it possible for the unknown regions to remain unknown? Or does simply making them "unknown" regions make them regions of indescribable thought? Or does "making them" unknown regions imply a level of "knowing" about the region in question? So does that in effect negate the "unknown" factor? Or does making a conscious thought to make them "unknown" essentially mean that you're making the decision to block yourself from that information? But then just knowing that the region is there in the first place kind of makes it so that you know about the unknown regions. So does that negate the title? Or does the simple desire to know more about the unknown regions give weight to the "unknown" title?

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imperialscum said:

One of the things I hate the most from EU are Unknown Regions. It is just a dumb concept. The size and location of Unknown Regions is quite ridiculous.

I agree. Not because the concept is bad, but because the execution of it is. IMO, the "Known Regions" should be the tiny potion of territory taking up space on the map, with the Unknown Regions being the vast remainder surrounding it, not the other way around.

The Unknown Regions - as they are - are just a lame attempt by writers to add mystery to a galaxy that, for all intents and purposes, has been largely charted, explored, and colonized.

It doesn't work well, and it's pretty much the writers' own faults for shrinking the galaxy down so much in the first place (ignoring the PT's own contribution to the shrinkage, of course), but that's pretty much the long and short of it.

Well the thing that bothers me the most is that Unknown Regions take almost entire left half of the galaxy. And even more so that they span almost to the core.

I would not mind if the Unknown Regions would be at the edges of the galaxy (for example inside those arm ends) or even outside the ring. It does not make sense that a small distance to the left of Coruscant is completely undiscovered while 10 times that distance to the other side is known (such as Tatooine).

I mean I do not know know which EU author actually mapped the galaxy. I think he/she is the one to blame. Well it is true that Unknown Regions appeared in KOTOR game and other sources but they never determined its position and size.

Bingowings said:

imperialscum said:

Well the thing that bothers me the most is that Unknown Regions take almost entire left half of the galaxy. And even more so that they span almost to the core.

It's not really half the galaxy, just the "northwestern" bit. I see what you mean, though.

I mean I do not know know which EU author actually mapped the galaxy. I think he/she is the one to blame. Well it is true that Unknown Regions appeared in KOTOR game and other sources but they never determined its position and size.

The earliest map for the whole galaxy I know of first appeared in The Essential Chronology, published way back in 2000, which predates the KOTOR game by several years.



Mention of the Unknown Regions predates that book, though, and I even think the second book in the Hand of Thrawn duology describes the Unknown Regions as being a lot larger than they're shown to be in that map.

Jaitea said:

I wonder if dark energy, dark matter & black holes fit into the Star Wars galaxy

If you're going by the EU, then yeah, those things exist. There's a cluster of black holes known as the Maw, and some blather in the NJO books mentioning invisible dark matter galaxies that interfere with hyperspace travel to areas outside the galaxy or some crap like that.

Thrawn was sent to chart the Unknown Regions just before RotJ, according to "Heir to the Empire". So it came from Zahn, I believe.

If I were to write Star Trek / Star Wars "Marty Stu" Fan Fiction, it would be about a disgraced Star Destroyer fleet left in the Unknown Regions before by Thrawn, finding a wormhole to the Milky Way there, reporting it to the New Republic, and becoming the New Republic ambassadors to the Federation.

I may or may not have started that story in high school.

^ does this idea involve all the characters from Star Wars sporting evil ming-the-merciless moustaches and swapping their Sabers for Agonizers?

If not... I'm out.

Mind you Biggs is already evil universe Biggs...

DuracellEnergizer said:

 

imperialscum said:

Well the thing that bothers me the most is that Unknown Regions take almost entire left half of the galaxy. And even more so that they span almost to the core.

It's not really half the galaxy, just the "northwestern" bit. I see what you mean, though.

Technically speaking it is more than 1/3 of the galaxy. Looking on either the map I provided or the one you provided, you can clearly see that the scaling on the left side is not the same as on the right side. These maps usually do that in order to make it look smaller and less ridiculous.

Hey, it's me. said:

I just discovered something curious on Twitter. On George Lucas's official twitter page he has posted a link to a short film (roughly 5 mins long) called 'The Game' and has said that if it gets 100 views or retweets, he may divulge some info about Episode VII. 

His Twitter page... wow. :-/

AntcuFaalb said:

Hey, it's me. said:

I just discovered something curious on Twitter. On George Lucas's official twitter page he has posted a link to a short film (roughly 5 mins long) called 'The Game' and has said that if it gets 100 views or retweets, he may divulge some info about Episode VII. 

His Twitter page... wow. :-/

I'm not convinced that it is his twitter. The account's not verified and all he's been linking to are videos by one Christopher Saunders.

AntcuFaalb said:

Hey, it's me. said:

I just discovered something curious on Twitter. On George Lucas's official twitter page he has posted a link to a short film (roughly 5 mins long) called 'The Game' and has said that if it gets 100 views or retweets, he may divulge some info about Episode VII. 

His Twitter page... wow. :-/

Or at least it's a suspicious account. It's non verified, not followed by the verified Star Wars twitter account, and his entire account is basically thanks and links to YT vids. Unless twitter has some kind of glitch where it's simply not showing that the Star Wars account is following the possible George Lucas account I wouldn't take anything on that account seriously. Anyone could be posting on that account.