Novel References

The Truce at Bakura

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Above a dead world, one habitable moon hung suspended like a cloud-veiled turquoise.

The habitable moon must be the forest moon of Endor. The identity of the dead world is more mysterious. The novelisation of Return of the Jedi clearly states that the original planet Endor has vanished by the time that story began. In the film there is another orb in the sky though: a gray/brown object which looks like a small, lifeless moon. Perhaps this object began as a sibling moon, whose similar heliocentric orbit by chance has brought it close to the ewoks' homeworld again.

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Above it appeared a miniature hologram of Admiral Ackbar, with huge eyes bulging at the sides of his high-domed, ruddy head. Although the Calamarian had commanded the Battle of Endor from a chair under the broad starry viewport on Luke's left, Ackbar felt more comfortable on his own cruiser. Life support there was fine-tuned to Calamarian standards.

starship: Admiral Ackbar has a private cruiser, which is not Home One. This may explain the apparent conflicts between the indentification and characteristics of Home One and Independence in the literature and computer games.

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...Mon Mothma, seated on a stasis unit.
... This crowded little lounge, spotless white like the rest of the suite, doubled as interim storage for cold stasis units. Mon Mothma's "seat" held a mortally wounded Ewok, who rested in suspended animation until the Alliance transported him to a fully equipped medical facility.

technology: statis fields, which were also described in Han Solo at Star's End. This is a container with some kind of artificial gravitic field generator which causes an artificial time dilation. From the viewpoint of observers outside the stasis unit, the contents experience little or no passage of time.

The Truce at Bakura
PAGE	QUOTATION	COMMENTS
1	Above a dead world, one habitable moon hung suspended like a cloud-veiled turquoise.	The habitable moon must be the forest moon of Endor. The identity of the dead world is more mysterious. The novelisation of Return of the Jedi clearly states that the original planet Endor has vanished by the time that story began. In the film there is another orb in the sky though: a gray/brown object which looks like a small, lifeless moon. Perhaps this object began as a sibling moon, whose similar heliocentric orbit by chance has brought it close to the ewoks' homeworld again.
10	Above it appeared a miniature hologram of Admiral Ackbar, with huge eyes bulging at the sides of his high-domed, ruddy head. Although the Calamarian had commanded the Battle of Endor from a chair under the broad starry viewport on Luke's left, Ackbar felt more comfortable on his own cruiser. Life support there was fine-tuned to Calamarian standards.	starship: Admiral Ackbar has a private cruiser, which is not Home One. This may explain the apparent conflicts between the indentification and characteristics of Home One and Independence in the literature and computer games.
20	...Mon Mothma, seated on a stasis unit. ... This crowded little lounge, spotless white like the rest of the suite, doubled as interim storage for cold stasis units. Mon Mothma's "seat" held a mortally wounded Ewok, who rested in suspended animation until the Alliance transported him to a fully equipped medical facility.	technology: statis fields, which were also described in Han Solo at Star's End. This is a container with some kind of artificial gravitic field generator which causes an artificial time dilation. From the viewpoint of observers outside the stasis unit, the contents experience little or no passage of time.

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