Coruscant

“An incandescent organ of life, visibly vibrating with the pulses of billions.” That’s legendary Chancellor Signet Mezzileen speaking of Coruscant, the planet he ruled for seventy years and praised as “the galaxy’s biggest little neighborhood”. Contrast that with poet Adder Ain-la’s famous denunciation of the Republic capital: “A dead metal shell of a world, Coruscant is soulless beyond salvation, so cold and empty its frozen carcass must be reheated with solar mirrors.” Neither commentary is right or wrong. Coruscant is the type of world that can be both spectacular and frightening, where indigents are sheltered in the shadow of restaurants selling food at ten thousand credits per plate. One thing it will never be is predictable… or dull. From space, “the jewel of the Core Worlds” can almost be mistaken for an artificial construct. Where other worlds have forests and grasslands, Coruscant has factories, skyscrapers and aquifers. Every scrap of surface area, except for the tiny polar ice caps and Western Sea, has been smothered by a dense layer of urbanization. In many places, this layer is covered by another layer, then another and another, creating canyons the plunge vertically for kilometers. Even the Manarai mountain range, surely the planet’s most distinctive features in eons past, is now a mere swelling in the omnipresent cityscape, dusted in snow. Orbital traffic encloses the planet like electrons around a nucleus, delivering food and supplies, ambassadors and tourists. Magnetic guidance lines organize atmospheric traffic into rows on a rigid grid. Landing platforms hovering among the traffic lanes accommodate the few private starships that are permitted to break orbit. Airbuses and air taxis ferry Coruscant’s citizens, while cargo transfer passes through freight tunnels underground. Pipelines suck water from the polar ice caps and the excessive ocean water of the Western Sea are purified and store it into reservoirs. It is possible, and even expected, for many people to live their entire lives kilometers removed from the unpleasantness of the depths. Everything they need is a short walk or a flitter ride away, and the politicians for whom Coruscant is a second home have made sure the planet is never lacking in luxury. Locations: Imperial City

Imperial Palace

The colossal building of the Imperial Palace dominated the skyline of Imperial City, was once the Jedi Temple. Emperor Palaptine, when destroyed the Jedi Order, he made it his personal palace has a way to gloat that he succeeded what other Sith lords failed to do in the past: total destruction of the Jedi Order. The palace could house tens of thousands of individuals. Most of the interiors remain the same, but the Jedi Statues or any Jedi relic was removed and destroyed. The Jedi Statues that once stood outside where replace with other statues honoring Imperial heroes. Atop the blocky dormitory slab, is where the Imperial Gardens is located as well the five spires – one in the center and one at each corner – reached for the vault of Coruscant’s crowded sky. The four surrounding towers, where transformed into defensive turrets to defend the palace from either an air or ground attack. The central tower held the famous Jedi Council Chamber, where the twelve members of the ruling Jedi Council convened, was transformed into Emperor’s Throne room and personal office of the Emperor, where he receive any audience. On the top of the center tower above the Emperor’s Throne room is located a shield generator that involves all the Imperial palace grounds. The archive of the Jedi Temple was transformed into two centers. One is the Imperial Information Center, which contained everything from ancient hyperspace maps to the plans of sensitive information, from the First Death Star to the Tarkin’s Legacy plans. The second is divided into a slicing and decoding center and a communication center, where send to and receive from the rest of the galaxy information and communications.

The Senate Chamber

The Senate Chamber was another of Coruscant’s striking edifices. Fronted by impressionistic statues, the chamber was built many levels above the site of the original Senate Hall. The Senate Rotunda contained 1,024 floating platforms, each belonging to a regional or sectorial Senator, forming a microcosm of the civilized galaxy. Directly behind each senatorial platform, delegates could retreat to a narrow slice of offices built to accommodate the environmental needs of each specific species. Emperor Palpatine closed the Senate Chamber when he dissolved the Imperial Senate, the building would stand as an emblem of what once was. Now it is open, as tourist attraction that can be visit to show the decay of the Old Republic, has means to promote the Empire was necessary change.

Imperial Executive Building

Situated near the Senate Chamber, this annex dome was designed to complement the Senate Chamber, to alleviate the cramped office conditions in the Senate Chamber and all senators held an office here. After the Imperial Senate was dissolved, this building was transformer and became the headquarters Imperial High Command, charged with coordinating and supervising all branches of the Imperial Military.

Galaxies Opera House

This Opera House is the favorite locale in Corsucant, thus the favorite among the Coruscant and Imperial elite. Possibly one of the most prestigious and exclusive art houses in the Galaxy and perhaps the oldest one, the building itself was built in a baroque design that predated the formation of the Old Republic and included an actual orchestra pit. The Opera’s wealthiest patrons could reserve private viewing balconies, with individual, leveled seating for all others.

Westport

Westport was the starport most commonly associated with Imperial City. Though the city had other public spaceports – Eastport, Newport, West Championne landing field and among many others – the bustling aerodrome of Westport enjoyed a favorable location near the Imperial Palace, the Senate Building, Coruscant University, Coruscant Imperial Academy and the Legislative Borough.

Monument Plaza

For countless generations the bowl of Monument Plaza has encircled the summit of Umate, one of the highest peaks in the Manarai mountain range. Tourists flock to Monument Plaza with a sense of unsettled curiosity, scarcely believing that this is the only spot in the cityscape where one can touch the bare rock of sacred Umate summit. The surrounding mall is more interesting than the peak itself, it resembles a sports arena with the highest peaks in the Manarai mountain range, sitting at the center of the playing field. Heroic statues and colorful banners decorate the grounds, while restaurants and souvenirs shops are built into the plaza walls. The most popular spots here is the Manarai resturant, that one has to make reservations months in advance.

The Western Sea

Coruscant locals who frequent the Western Sea think they had traveled to a coastal resort on some tropical planet. This is the only ocean of Coruscant that still exists, it is 1.7 Billion acres wide, with 1.4 billion acres are islands mainly covered by rainforest, where urban city and nature are in harmony. In the middle of ocean several islands exists, where are habited by the wealthy and powerful, who have vacation homes and predominant estates located here. Among them, Darth Vader had the largest and the most opulent estate away from unwanted eyes. The one of most frequent establishments here is the Dexter’s Diner, but the most popular spot is newly Outlander Club.

The Uscru

The Uscru (also known as Uscru Entertainment District), is situated in former region of Uscru, before Coruscant became an ecumenopolis. The district is alive at night and day (of the little light it reaches here), full with clubs, bars, restaurants, with holograms that lit up the streets. It was considered the layer between the jewel city and the Coruscant underworld. In the heart of the Uscru, is the Uscru Plaza, which is the epicenter of nighlife, with several small bars and cantinas spread across the Plaza. The most popular spot of all is the Snapping Septoid, after the old Outlander Club was burn down and destroyed. The Mayor of the Uscru is a corrupt human, name Valis Crowion, that makes the district infamous for its seedy look, to be center of death stick dealers, and crimelords, because it is considered the district of highest crime-rate areas on Coruscant. It is said that Valis Crowion, is responsible for the destruction of old Outlander Club, due to shady business gone bad with one of Baath brothers, which directly gave a considerable shaddy reputation to Valis. Young thrill-seekers and slumming nobles pack many dance floors every evening, sampling the ready menu of alcohol, death sticks, spice and extremely gorgeous women for prostitution. Vidscreens built into the walls broadcast all matter of galactic sports events, from the popular Brutball to Podracing, and gambling is encouraged at the droid-staffed sports areas.

Salater's University

The University District is a location among the oldest institutions in the Galaxy, and was founded by Kario Sallon. The Salater’s University is named after the great discover and the creator of the Celestial theory. Though not the most prestigious university in the galaxy, it attracts some of the Empire’s brightest minds who not only fall in love with the idea of studying and teaching on cosmopolitan Coruscant, but also the conditions offered to the students and teachers are by far the best in the galaxy. It is said that this was brilliant way for Emperor Palpatine to get some of the most brilliant minds to work for him and Emperor Eskron continue with the tradition. With most students belonging to wealthy families, soon several merchants and commercial entrepreneurs selling leading-edge gadgets, information brokers, outlaw techs and slicers set their businesses here, though the price tag would probably make a miser faint.

Galactic Museum

The Galactic Museum sits at the heart of Coruscant, just one kilometer south of the Salater’s University. For over 12,000 years it has been the galaxy’s premier repository for artifacts worth preserving. The museum’s exhibit wings, each of which can take days to explore, include themes such as “The New Order: the Glory of the Next Thousand Generations”, “History of Hyperdrive”, “Planetary Cultures” and the “Fauna and Flora of the Galaxy”. One of the most important exhibits in this museum tells the story of the Clone Wars and the betrayal of the Jedi. At the entrance of that particular wing there is a statue of Wilhuff Tarkin. Most of the artifacts and history are images of the Empire’s propaganda machine. The betrayal of the Jedi in the Clone Wars still causes a lot of discussion in the Coruscant’s society. With the Holonet being very strictly controlled, the lies that are located in this wing are believed by the common folk. Anyone who visits the Galactic Museum has his or her image captured by security cameras, making it an unwelcome destination for anyone in trouble with the authorities.

The Invisible Sector

If possible, the Invisible Sector – called Invisec by the locals and the Alien Protection Zone by Imperial apologists – was the most dangerous location on Coruscant, situated on the lowest levels of Coruscant. Emperor Palpatine relocated all the more obvious non-human species to Invisec several years into his reign, walling off the new ghetto. Blaster-toting stormtroopers patrolled the border between Invisec and the upper levels, making sure that anyone passing in or out had proper documentation. Some aliens, members of Elite Aliens, are allow to live outside this sector, if they have set of skills that improve the quality of Imperial live in Coruscant, they can be excellent culinary chefs to security guards and banking analysts.

It goes without saying that aliens hated Invisec, and any Humans visiting the district would attract unfriendly glares at best or a vibroblade to the ribs at worst. The district was a breeding ground for every sort of illegal activity from forgery to black marketeering to bare-knuckled pit fighting. Since Imperial officers seldom venture inside the Invisec to see what the aliens were doing, Invisec became a sanctuary for guerrilla-style resistance against Imperial Rule. The Alien Combine was one of several anti-Imperial groups that sprang up in Invisec.

The Works

Not every megablock on Courscant is filled with people. The Works (also known as the Factory District) is a large industrial area of Coruscant, where goods were manufactured for export and for local consumption. Despite the sheer tonnage of the factory district annual output, Coruscant’s trillion citizens are far from self-sufficient. The Works fell on hard times during an economic recession, many companies decided to abandon the Works, for cheap labor and off-world facilities. Prospective urban developers released stone mites, duracrete slugs and conduit worms into the Works, in an attempt to clear the area out so could be purchased and refurbished. When the Clone Wars started, Chancellor Palpatine, decided with the approval of Galactic Senate to rebuild the Works for the production to the Republic’s military efforts. When The Galactic Empire came to power, the Works quickly became as a manufacturing center for Tie Fighters and other sort of crafts, producing hundreds of starfighters per day, as well other military equipment from blasters to walkers.

Zhell Shipyards

Named after the human ancestors, the inhabitants of Zhell, this shipyards was built by the Empire to serve as shipyards and a commerce center. The shipyards are in length 100 kilometers, with the heart of the shipyards being 50 kilometers in length. The heart of shipyards harbors the central never system of the station, the bridge is situated on the top, where directs traffic and day to day routine. Underneath the bridge is situated the offices and in the equator of this station is the rooms of either personnel workers of the shipyards, as also large market where goods are sold and traded. In the lower levels is situated the quarters of the crew and workers of this shipyards, as well any freighter pilots that finds a place to rest for day. The rings around the heart of the shipyards, where the hangars are located as the repair shops and storage areas, each ring has about 50 hangars for small cargo transporters, several drydocks of different sizes and two access points for 5 Star Destroyers or one Super Star Destroyer. At the center of the ring is a power reactor and powers that section of the station, which is directly connected to main power reactor.

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Analyse des principaux belligérants Séparatistes de la Guerre Civile Galactique

Dans le livre "Star Wars - L'encyclopédie visuelle" paru en 2017 dans la collection Hachette Heroes (en collaboration avec Disney et Lucasfilm), les principaux membres de l'Alliance Séparatiste sont listés comme suit :

- Dooku, Comte de Serenno, alias Dark Tyrannus, Seigneur des Sith, est officiellement le chef de l’État

Comte Dooku

Il dispose d'un groupe de législateurs pour gouverner les mondes de plus en plus nombreux qui forment l'Alliance Séparatiste et pour gérer les affaires civiles; parmi lesquels on compte : Bec Lawise (un Siniteen de Rattatak), chef du Parlement (ou Congrès) Séparatiste, le Sénateur By Bluss, la Sénatrice Mina Bonteri (Humaine), la Sénatrice Voe Atell, etc.

Bec Lawise et un autre Siniteen

By Bluss, Séparatiste modéré, favorable à la négociation avec la République

 

 

 Mina Bonteri, Séparatiste modérée qui finira assassinée ...

Voe Attel, partisane du recours à la force

Mais il existe surtout un Conseil Séparatiste qui est le groupe secret derrière le Parlement Séparatiste qui gère les opérations militaires et le financement. Ses membres sont motivés par leurs intérêts personnels et la cupidité. Ce sont :
- le Général Grievous, cyborg Kaleesh (2m16), Commandant de l'armée droïde ;
- Nute Gunray, Vice-Roi de la Fédération du Commerce, et son lieutenant Rune Haako, Administrateur de la Fédération du Commerce, des Neimoidiens ;
- l'Archiduc Poggle le Bref de Géonosis (Géonosien, 1m75) qui était le leader public de Geonosis durant la Guerre des Clones bien qu'en vérité il répondait aux ordres de Karina la Grande (8m60) ;
- Wat Tambor, Représentant du Techno Syndicat (Skakoan, 1m93)
- San Hill, Président du Clan Bancaire Intergalactique (Muun)
- Shu Mai, Présidente de la Guilde du Commerce (Gossam originaire de Castell, 1m65 contre 1m25 en moyenne pour les membres de son espèce);
- Po Nudo, ancien Sénateur de la République (Aqualish)
- et Passel Argente, Magistrat de l'Alliance Commerciale et son assistant Denaria Kee (deux Koorivars).

Général Grievious

 

Nute Gunray, Vice-Roi de la Fédération du Commerce, et son lieutenant Rune Haako

 

Poggle le Bref de Géonosis

et Karina la Grande, Reine des Usines

Wat Tambor, Représentant du Techno Syndicat 

San Hill, Président du Clan Bancaire Intergalactique

Shu Mai, Présidente de la Guilde du Commerce, et un Gossam

Po Nudo, ancien Sénateur de la République, et ses assistants Aqualishs

Passel Argente, Magistrat de l'Alliance Commerciale et son assistant Denaria Kee

Analyse

Le grand manipulateur derrière le Comte Dooku a su utiliser l'antagonisme atavique entre :
- d'une part la République des Pairs
- et d'autre part les groupes aux intérêts privés dominants.

Il a induit l'alliance naturelle entre les oligarchiques Technos (Techno Syndicat, la main d’œuvre de Géonosis et les soldats-droïds placés sous le commandement du Général Griévous) et les Marchands (la Fédération du Commerce, la Guilde du Commerce, l'Alliance Commerciale et le Clan Bancaire Intergalactique ), sans oublier quelques Sénateurs corrompus tels que Po Nudo ou Bec Lawise, à l'image de la société terrienne NT3 et NT4 où les industriels et les banquiers (réunis dans la Franc-maçonnerie) dirigent le monde occidental.

Mais le grand manipulateur, connu sous le pseudonyme de Dark Sidious (Sombre Sournois en anglais), va trahir et utiliser les Séparatistes à son propre compte afin :
- d'une part de détruire la République (régime dit représentatif)
- et d'autre part de réunir deux autres groupes aux intérêts privés dominants : l'Armée et le Clergé, à l'image de l'Ancien régime des despotiques monarchies de droit divin, pour les placer sous l'autorité d'un seul individu : l'Empereur Galactique Palpatine (lui-même) à la fois Seigneur des Sith (le Clergé dominant) et de l'Armée impériale.
 

Kamé ...Hamé ... Ha !

Le Kamé Hamé Ha (かめはめ波, Kamehameha, litt. Vague destructrice de la tortue), également connu sous le nom de Kaméhaméha, est une technique fictive créée par Akira Toriyama dans le manga Dragon Ball en 1984.

C'est une technique très puissante inventée par Kamé Sennin. Le nom de cette technique est à la fois une référence à Kamehameha I^er, premier roi de Hawaï, et un jeu de mot contenant les expressions Kamé (« Tortue », faisant référence à Kamé Sennin) et Ha (« Vague », un terme courant lors des attaques à base de vagues d'énergie).

Cette technique consiste à concentrer toute l'énergie potentielle de son corps, ce qui forme une boule d'énergie entre les mains, et à la propulser en une fois avec force vers l'adversaire.

Celestial

"The identity of the architects remains a mystery…"

―Historical Council

The Celestials, also known as the Architects, were an ancient civilization who were present long before the dawn of the galactic community and even the Rakatan Infinite Empire. Believed to be responsible for a number of large artifacts and anomalous planetary formations and species placements throughout the galaxy, what little was known of the Celestials came from xenoarchaeology. The Jedi and the Sith alike theorized that the balance between the light and dark sides of the Force was actually under the guidance of the Celestials.

"We are sorry. We do not know how to explain the Celestials any better. They are beyond the understanding of mortals."

―Thuruht

What little was known of the Celestials owed to the permanence of their cosmological constructions. They were considered one of the earliest and most potent cultures of their time that were identified by the colossal objects they had left behind. Their identities were considered largely a mystery due to lack of information on them. Evidence of their works led many to determine that the galaxy was once visited by these stunningly powerful alien architects. Even their appearance was something of a mystery: the Celestials were said to have malleable form, and another theory held that they were a group of discorporate entities who had perhaps merged themselves with the Force thousands of generations earlier and continued to guide the fate of the galaxy ever since. Doctor Insmot Bowen, a pre-Republic specialist, identified a common motif of sinuous patterns - perhaps serpents, tentacles or vines - in the art of ancient civilizations thought to have had contact with the Celestials, ranging from the Ophidian grotesques of Coruscant to similar patterns found on Caulus Tertius and Shatuun. Some held that the Celestials were a higher order of intermediaries whose powers were beyond the understanding of mortal beings.

The origin of the Celestials was unknown: Thuruht, the oldest of the Killik hives, claimed to remember seeing the Ones, a group of Force wielders apparently related to the Celestials, coalescing out of a geyser on an unnamed tropical planet more than a million years before the events of the Clone Wars. It should be noted that the collective memory of a Killik hive does not make distinctions between fact and fiction like the human mind—any individual memory joined to that of the collective, be it mythology, incontestable fact, or the plot of a holodrama, is history to the Killiks.

Nevertheless, by 100,000 BBY, this spectacularly powerful species had dominated the stars and had made contact with a number of other species in various states of advancement. These included the Gree, Kwa, Sharu, Columi, Killiks, Humans, and Taung. The Columi retreated from the stars in fear of the Celestials, while the Sharu sought refuge in primitivism: a brief expansion period by the Sharu saw their race push Coreward as far as Aargau. This was believed to have attracted the notice of the Celestials. Their presence was believed to have frightened the Sharu into adopting a forced culture of primitivism, and it was further speculated that the frightened Sharu buried their cities beneath immense plastic pyramids and drained their intellects in a last-ditch effort at escaping Celestial attention. Similar pyramid designs would later be identified among the Kwa.

The Celestials are known to have conscripted the insectoid Killiks of Alderaan to serve as laborers, and the Killiks were seeded up and down the Perlemian. According to the Killiks, a connection was present between the Celestials and the group of Force wielders known as The Ones; it was believed that the Force wielders were descendants of the Celestials. Similarly, the Gree, Kwa, and the Rakata acted as servant races to the Celestials alongside the Killiks. Together, they worked to build astonishing technological projects that ranged from the assembly of star systems to the engineering of hyperspace anomalies.

Architects

"He said no mortal mind could know everything, and the last thing he wanted was to become a Celestial."

―Feryl, on Jacen Solo

The Celestials were known to have created a number of projects that took place near Corellia, Kessel, and other sites in the eastern galactic disc. Notable achievements of this race included assembling the Corellian system,the Vultar system, the Hapes Cluster, the Kathol Rift, and the Maw black-hole cluster.
The Corellian system was highly anomalous: chemical composition of the Corellian planets matched no known model of the formation of stars or planetary discs. Mathematical analysis of the system's planetary orbits indicated they had decayed into near-ellipses from perfectly circular orbits, something that was extremely rare. A further 17 star systems had been identified with similar signatures by 1 BBY. Thus it was generally accepted by researchers that the Corellian system had been assembled at some point from pre-existing planets that were brought together by a combination of buried planetary repulsors and hyperspace tractor engines like Centerpoint Station or the Cosmic Turbine. It was believed that the Architects were responsible for seeding the Core Worlds with life and in particular with Humans, though some claimed this was the result of the Rakatan empire. These Architects were held to be responsible for populating the worlds in the Corellian system with Drall, Selonians, and Humans. While the Drall and Selonians were believed to be native to their worlds, it was possible that the Human Corellians were transplanted to their world by the Celestials.
Killiks were believed to have had a hand in the construction of Centerpoint Station, which they called Qolaraloq. In addition, they witnessed the creation of other Celestial wonders such as the Maw and the Vultar system. Killik slaves were also present on Sinkhole Station where they created a pressure seal that was adapted from their own construction techniques that used technology of the station. A suspected Celestial sensory operations complex on Kessel contained planetwide underground machinery tended to by the Bogeys and contained a type of gigantic astronomical observatory detailing the location of gravity wells across the entire galaxy.
Pre-Republic specialists believed the Celestials were responsible for the hyperspace disturbance beyond the edge of the galaxy, possibly as a defense against outside interference. They were also believed to be responsible for the chain of hyperspace anomalies west of the Core that bisected the galaxy and prevented travel into the Unknown Regions. The ancient creature known as the Mnggal-Mnggal claimed to have witnessed the golden age of the Celestials. Speculation holds that the Celestials had crafted the hyperspace anomalies that bisected the galaxy in order to separate and isolate the influence of the predatory creature. Other academic speculation held that this barrier had been created to contain the Rakata. Such was the scale of the Celestials' achievements that Doctor Insmot Bowen was prepared to contemplate the possibility of the entire universe being a Celestial construct.

Disappearance

Around 35,000 BBY, the domain of the Celestials was usurped when the Rakata slave race revolted. Stealing technology from the Kwa, another Celestial client race, they waged a war against the other servant races. Some hypotheses over the hyperspace turbulence in the Unknown Regions claimed that it was created to serve as a barrier between the Celestials and the upstart Rakata. Despite the Celestials' efforts, the Rakata broke through the barrier and waged a war of extermination upon them. The ancient grimoires of the Gree Enclave, which referred to the Celestials as the "Ancient Masters," recorded that they were undone by curses unleashed by the Rakata, or the "Soul Hunters," which they called the "Gray Swallowing" and the "Hollowers of Beings," and further referred to them as the "Faceless Mouths" and "Eaters of Worlds."
Information discovered from the Thuruht hive in 44 ABY suggested that the Celestials' decline may have been associated with the rise of the being Abeloth: The Killiks believed that the Force was the dominion of the Celestials and then their power was usurped when the "Bringer of Chaos" emerged. It is known that the Son and the Daughter, two of the Ones that the Killiks claimed were what the Celestials became, approached the Killiks to gain their assistance in the construction of the Maw cluster of black holes. Using Centerpoint Station, the Killiks moved numerous black holes to form a prison for Abeloth, lest she throw the galaxy into chaos and disorder. The Son and the Daughter joined the hive mind and lent the hives their knowledge and their enormous power in the Force. It is believed that after they completed their labors, the siblings left the hive mind and somehow removed the Force powers that they had shared with the hive.
The eventual fate of the Celestials was unclear. They may have been trapped inside the galaxy by their barrier and destroyed by the Rakatan revolt, or they may have escaped through the barrier. Insmot Bowen suggested that they may have withdrawn from this dimension completely. The Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Plagueis mused on the possibility that the Celestials were the ones who, according to Jedi and Sith legend, merged into the Force to control its path.
By 30,000 BBY, the Celestials were nowhere to be found, and the Rakatan Infinite Empire had taken center stage. Similarly, the Killiks vanished from the galaxy and migrated beyond the veil of the Unknown Regions, which was an act presumed to be attributed to the Celestials. After the construction of Centerpoint Station, it was claimed by the Killiks that the Celestials had grown angry with their Kind and had emptied them from their homeworld of Alderaan. It was theorized that the Celestials drove the Killiks into the Unknown Regions after they devoured their own homeworld and attempted to lay claim to another planet. The Mnggal-Mnggal similarly claimed that it had witnessed the sudden withdrawal of the Celestials from the galaxy in this era.

Legacy

"Could this be from the same makers? The so-called Celestials? It doesn't look that old."

―Han Solo, on the machinery at Kessel

Despite their achievements, little evidence remained of where the Architects came from and what was their eventual fate. Many of their extraordinary works and machines were known to have survived the ages with some races claiming the engineering marvel that was Centerpoint Station was a product of their own civilization. The barren Tion Cluster world of Foran Tutha became famous following the discovery of the Foran Tutha star probe. Scholars debated for centuries on whether the fragments of this ancient starship were a remnant of Celestial, Rakata, or an example of early Core technology.

This argument continued for five centuries with the true origin of the probe being unknown. Other traces of the Celestials that remained ranged from the anomalous like the Quintarad star group and the Aur Diamonds, to the ruined like the Penegelen Shards and the Ianane Ring, to the obviously artificial like the Ciratu Spheres and the Diatian Clockwork.

In the years of Darth Plagueis, some believed that the Celestials were a higher order of Force beings that guided the events of the galaxy, though many Sith Lords dismissed this theory as such a theoretical line of thinking as to have no bearing on their desire to make the galaxy subservient to their will, since it meant that this was only in the realm of the enlightened elite.

At some point after the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Jedi Jacen Solo traveled the galaxy to learn from various Force sects. On these travels, he met with the Mind Walkers of Sinkhole Station who offered him to enter into the Pool of Knowledge, but he refused as he did not want to become like the Celestials and hold all the knowledge of the universe. In 35 ABY, the Unu Joiner Raynar Thul stated that the Celestials had emptied Oroboro on Alderaan, around ten thousand Killik generations ago, approximately twenty thousand years in Human time. He also claimed that the Killik Colony had built Centerpoint Station and shortly after the construction of Qolaraloq, the Celestials had become angry with them over an unspecified matter. Later, in 41.5 ABY, Jaden Korr encountered debris from a large structure the creation of which he attributed to either the Celestials or the Rakata.
Two years later, ancient machinery was discovered on Kessel which prompted Han Solo to wonder if it was a creation of the Celestials. The lowest levels of the planet had massive amounts of this technology, and almost destroyed the entire planet. Afterwards, Grand Master Luke Skywalker and his son Ben Skywalker discovered Sinkhole Station within the Maw Cluster. Ben Skywalker theorized that the Celestials may have constructed Centerpoint Station and created the Maw in order to contain Abeloth, who was believed to have some connection to the Celestials. Sinkhole Station, a similar structure to Centerpoint, also had possible ties to the Celestials. Once there, they discovered the body of a dead Killik slave who was involved in the station's construction. The Mind Walkers would tell a transcended Luke Skywalker that they had invited Jacen Solo to bathe in the Pool of Knowledge, but that he declined, stating it would make him too much like the Celestials.
After traveling to the Celestial Palace, the Thuruht hive explained what they knew from their hive mind of the Celestials. This led to Raynar Thul wondering whether Abeloth was a member of this mysterious race, though the Thuruht did not know the answer to that question. The Killiks debated on whether Abeloth was the Bringer of Chaos because of the Celestials desires or because she took such a role after defying the wishes of the Celestials. Ultimately, the Thuruht concluded that the true nature of the Celestials could not be comprehended or grasped by a mortal mind nor could one discern their will.

Behind the scenes

The term "Celestial" was created by writer Troy Denning for his 2005 novel Dark Nest I: The Joiner King, though the concept of a highly advanced "precursor" race that greatly influenced the early galaxy, a recurring motif in science fiction, is much older, most notably figuring in The Corellian Trilogy with the debut of Centerpoint Station, revealed to be the Celestials' masterwork. They would play a key backstory role in Denning and his colleagues' work on The Dark Nest Trilogy, Legacy of the Force, and Fate of the Jedi. Prior to The Joiner King, Centerpoint's builders had been given the name "Architects" in 1999's The Essential Chronology.
"Hyperspace aliens" is a fanon nickname of the otherwise undescribed aliens who, according to Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, gave Humans hyperspace technology. According to The New Essential Chronology, the Rakata developed the technology, whence the Corellians adopted it, although the book refers to the Architects separately from the Rakata, signifying they were only a part of the Architects' "myth."
The Essential Atlas equated the Architects with the Celestials and identified several star clusters and astronomical phenomena that were a result of their manipulation. In Darth Plagueis, the eponymous Dark Lord of the Sith muses on the possible fate of the Celestials, equating them with the Force wielders of Mortis. The Star Wars Blog article "Galactic Architecture 101 and the History of Centerpoint Station" concretely identifies the Mortis denizens as Celestials.
The New Essential Guide to Alien Species stated that the Rakata are the Architects and built Centerpoint Station, but this can be attributed to the fact that this guide came out before much of the information on the Celestials did.
According to Jason Fry's endnotes for The Essential Guide to Warfare, a piece of cut content would have involved a transcript where Dr. Insmot Bowen of the Obroan Institute explained that the barrier west of the Core was a remnant of Celestial technology. In addition, he explained that a war was fought between the Celestials and the Rakata.
In Part 1 of Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare Author's Cut, one of the revealed cut concepts, a debriefing that was originally supposed to act as the prologue of the book, dealt with the Celestials, including the Celestial-Rakata War.

Source :  http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Celestial

Spire - tome 3 - Ce qui Révèle

Quatrième de couverture :

Pour la Spire, l’âge d’or a commencé. Ses concurrentes la laissent en paix, et sa puissance ne cesse de grandir. Mais pour les navis travaillant pour elle, c’est une autre paire de manches : la Ligue qui les représente est en charpie. Désormais, pour la Compagnie, seul le profit compte et tous les moyens sont bons pour y parvenir.
Peu à peu, la grogne monte chez les pilotes, alors que les décisions contestables se multiplient et que le rêve initial – rallier les planètes oubliées – se dilue bel et bien sous l’action de Mathy et de son redoutable Buro.
L’espoir d’un avenir plus radieux réside entre les mains des deux fondateurs, Lenoor et Hummel. Mais parviendront-ils à résister aux dangers qui guettent ? Sauront-ils préserver l’âme de la Compagnie ? Ou est-il déjà trop tard ?