And here’s something really interesting. Empire Magazine gives us our first canonical map of the galaxy:
UGH, they kept the Unknown Regions as a giant blot that reaches right next to the Galactic Core. So DUMB.
I’ve always maintained that the Unknown Regions should have been one of the spiral arms of the galaxy. At least that would have made some sense.
Hasn’t it always been like that in SW canon though?
Link:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20535561/SW Galaxy map.jpg
I googled it and I really can’t find a map where the unknown regions aren’t like that. It seems more like they’ve just removed a bunch of planets from the old map and added a few new ones.
I could be wrong though, it’s hard to back-track the canon on Wookieepedia.
Does anyone know what the first map of the SW galaxy looked like?
EDIT: It’s from 1999 and looked like this; http://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/star-wars-njo-map.jpg?fit=429%2C 9999&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C321px
(PS. why is Bespin and Hoth right next to each other in both maps? Didn’t Han refer to it as being “far away” when they were hiding in the asteroid field in the Hoth system?)