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Million 'member worlds', supplemented by 'colonies, protectorates and The STAR WARS Roleplaying Game Second Edition indicates over a Tarkin's statement about the Empire's membership , Notions of 'a thousand thousand worlds.' In agreement with Grand Moff Most other references are less specific, including only vague Somewhat larger since a majority of stars are in binary or multipleĪccording to Dark Empire there are over twelve million inhabited Of a galaxy of this size, and the total number of stars would be A hundred billion star systems is typical

There are of the order of a hundred billion star systems and twenty Of Lies (p.39) the galactic disk is 120,000 light years in diameter.Īccording to the musings of Boba Fett in Tales of the Bounty Hunters, The galaxy successively governed by the Galactic Republic, Palpatine'sĮmpire and the New Republic was a typical spiral galaxy consisting of It also indicates possible discrepancies in various canon sources: This claims 12 million worlds - possibly including colonies as worlds, but this is far short of the claims from the other two sources. It does appear to draw from various RPG sourcebooks and EU novels. I'm not sure of the canonicity of this map, though, and it isn't clear if this is the population of known space, or the Empire alone.Īnother source is the Star Wars: Technical Commentaries. The map also reckons that there are approximately 10^17 inhabitants (or about 2x10^10 per system by my rough reckoning - by comparison, Earth is currently populated by just short of 7x10^9 or about 1/50 of the average Star Wars system). Assuming that most of these systems are simply 'colonies', the Wookieepedia claim of 69 million colonies could be borne out quite easily. There is a map of the Star Wars galaxy which claims '50 million inhabited systems'. Note the distinction between world and colony - I assume 'one and a half million worlds' match your 'real planet or large moon' requirement.

The entire galaxy, stretching from the borders of the Deep Core to at Million colonies, protectorates and puppet states spread throughout The Galactic Empire's territory at its peak consisted of some one andĪ half million member and conquered worlds, as well as sixty-nine

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