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data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderaan" title="Alderaan – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Alderaan" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orte_aus_Star_Wars#Alderaan" title="Orte aus Star Wars – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Orte aus Star Wars" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderaan" title="Alderaan – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Alderaan" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86" title="آلدران – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آلدران" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderaan" title="Alderaan – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Alderaan" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderaan" title="Alderaan – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Alderaan" data-language-autonym="Frysk" 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searchaux" style="display:none">Fictional planet in Star Wars</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the fictional Star Wars planet. For the asterism, see <a href="/wiki/Al-Dhira%27" title="Al-Dhira'">Al-Dhira'</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Alderaan_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Alderaan (disambiguation)">Alderaan (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Aldebaran" title="Aldebaran">Aldebaran</a> or <a href="/wiki/Alderman" title="Alderman">Alderman</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and 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class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Alderaan250ppx.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/60/Alderaan250ppx.PNG/220px-Alderaan250ppx.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Alderaan250ppx.PNG 1.5x" data-file-width="249" data-file-height="248" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Alderaan as it appears in <i>Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith</i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First appearance</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_From_the_Adventures_of_Luke_Skywalker" title="Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker">Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker</a></i> (1976 novelization)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">Star Wars</a></i> (1977 theatrical film)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Last appearance</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV series)">Obi-Wan Kenobi</a></i> (2022)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Lucas" title="George Lucas">George Lucas</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">Science fiction</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DEDEE2;">In-universe information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Terrestrial_planet" title="Terrestrial planet">Terrestrial planet</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Race(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Human_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Human (Star Wars)">Human</a> (immigrated)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Characters</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Princess_Leia" title="Princess Leia">Princess Leia</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Bail_Organa" class="mw-redirect" title="Bail Organa">Bail Organa</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_characters" title="List of Star Wars characters">Breha Organa</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_characters" title="List of Star Wars characters">Raymus Antilles</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Cara_Dune" title="Cara Dune">Cara Dune</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Moons</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Alderaan</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɔː/: 'au' in 'fraud'">ɔː</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɑː/: 'a' in 'father'">ɑː</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span>-<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">AWL</span>-də-ra(h)n</i></a>) is an <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>-like <a href="/wiki/Fictional_planet" class="mw-redirect" title="Fictional planet">fictional planet</a> featured in the <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i> franchise. It is blue-green in appearance, depicted as a <a href="/wiki/Terrestrial_planet" title="Terrestrial planet">terrestrial planet</a> with <a href="/wiki/Humanoid" title="Humanoid">humanoid</a> inhabitants, and characterized by a peaceful culture. It is the home planet of <a href="/wiki/Princess_Leia_Organa" class="mw-redirect" title="Princess Leia Organa">Princess Leia Organa</a>, one of the lead characters in the <a href="/wiki/Skywalker_saga" class="mw-redirect" title="Skywalker saga">film series</a>, as well as former Rebel shock trooper <a href="/wiki/Cara_Dune" title="Cara Dune">Cara Dune</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">original 1977 film</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-EpIV_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EpIV-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alderaan was destroyed by the <a href="/wiki/Death_Star" title="Death Star">Death Star</a>'s superlaser.<sup id="cite_ref-SW_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SW-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Depiction">Depiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Depiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early drafts of the <i>Star Wars</i> story include references to at least two planets which later evolved into the concept of Alderaan. <i>Star Wars</i> author <a href="/wiki/George_Lucas" title="George Lucas">George Lucas</a> included a planet called Alderaan in early <a href="/wiki/Film_treatment" title="Film treatment">treatments</a>; in <i>The Star Wars</i> (1973), <i>Alderaan</i> is a city-planet and the capital planet of the galaxy (prefiguring the planet <a href="/wiki/Coruscant" title="Coruscant">Coruscant</a> which later featured in the films). The draft script opens with a scene in which an "eerie blue-green" planet called <i>Aquilae</i> is threatened by an armed space fortress.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERinzler2008351–400_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERinzler2008351–400-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Lucas' 1975 draft, <i>Adventures of the Starkiller as taken from the Journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars</i>, the capital planet of Alderaan is described as a <a href="/wiki/Floating_city_(science_fiction)" class="mw-redirect" title="Floating city (science fiction)">floating city</a> in the clouds, "suspended in a sea of cirrus methane". A planet described in Lucas' draft script as being "under siege by the Imperial Legions of Alderaan" and which is later destroyed is named as <i>Ogana Major</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHearn200586–87_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHearn200586–87-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBouzereau199867–68_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBouzereau199867–68-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Early sketches commissioned by Lucas from <a href="/wiki/Concept_art" title="Concept art">conceptual illustrator</a> <a href="/wiki/Ralph_McQuarrie" title="Ralph McQuarrie">Ralph McQuarrie</a> show a design which very closely resembles <a href="/wiki/Bespin" class="mw-redirect" title="Bespin">Cloud City</a>, as featured in the later sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back" title="The Empire Strikes Back">The Empire Strikes Back</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-mcquarrie_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcquarrie-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Lucas' third draft, the Imperial City of Alderaan has become the home world of the <a href="/wiki/Sith" title="Sith">Sith Lords</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a> holds <a href="/wiki/Princess_Leia" title="Princess Leia">Princess Leia</a> captive here. Lucas continued to hone his script, aided by <a href="/wiki/Screenwriter" title="Screenwriter">screenwriters</a> <a href="/wiki/Willard_Huyck" title="Willard Huyck">Willard Huyck</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gloria_Katz" title="Gloria Katz">Gloria Katz</a>; names of planets and characters were revised and the narrative was improved, and by the fourth draft, scenes on the Imperial capital planet had been moved to a space station called the <a href="/wiki/Death_Star" title="Death Star">Death Star</a> and the peaceful world destroyed by the Empire had taken the name Alderaan.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHearn200599_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHearn200599-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The on-screen depictions of Alderaan in the <i>Star Wars</i> films are scant; the distant planet is seen momentarily in <i>Star Wars</i> (1977) prior to its destruction, and in <i>Revenge of the Sith</i> (2005) a short scene shows a city amid a snow-covered, mountainous landscape. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jungfraujoch_img_3743.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Jungfraujoch_img_3743.jpg/260px-Jungfraujoch_img_3743.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Jungfraujoch_img_3743.jpg/390px-Jungfraujoch_img_3743.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Jungfraujoch_img_3743.jpg/520px-Jungfraujoch_img_3743.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Mountain scenery in <a href="/wiki/Grindelwald" title="Grindelwald">Grindelwald</a>, <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>, used to depict Alderaan.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alderaan.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Alderaan.JPG/260px-Alderaan.JPG" decoding="async" width="260" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Alderaan.JPG/390px-Alderaan.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Alderaan.JPG/520px-Alderaan.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1440" /></a><figcaption>Composite image based on a shot of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Thun" title="Lake Thun">Lake Thun</a>, depicting Alderaan.</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Carrie_Fisher_2013-a_straightened.jpg/221px-Carrie_Fisher_2013-a_straightened.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Carrie_Fisher_2013-a_straightened.jpg/294px-Carrie_Fisher_2013-a_straightened.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1443" data-file-height="2211" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Carrie_Fisher" title="Carrie Fisher">Carrie Fisher</a>, who played Alderaan's best-known inhabitant, <a href="/wiki/Princess_Leia_Organa" class="mw-redirect" title="Princess Leia Organa">Princess Leia Organa</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:139px;max-width:139px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:225px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jimmy_Smits_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Jimmy Smits" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Jimmy_Smits_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/137px-Jimmy_Smits_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" decoding="async" width="137" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Jimmy_Smits_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/206px-Jimmy_Smits_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Jimmy_Smits_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/274px-Jimmy_Smits_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1416" data-file-height="2344" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Smits" title="Jimmy Smits">Jimmy Smits</a>, who played Alderaan royal and adoptive father of Leia, <a href="/wiki/Bail_Organa" class="mw-redirect" title="Bail Organa">Bail Organa</a></div></div></div></div></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Star_Wars-_The_Last_Jedi_Japan_Premiere_Red_Carpet-_Adam_Driver_(27163437599)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Star_Wars-_The_Last_Jedi_Japan_Premiere_Red_Carpet-_Adam_Driver_%2827163437599%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Star_Wars-_The_Last_Jedi_Japan_Premiere_Red_Carpet-_Adam_Driver_%2827163437599%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="208" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Star_Wars-_The_Last_Jedi_Japan_Premiere_Red_Carpet-_Adam_Driver_%2827163437599%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/225px-Star_Wars-_The_Last_Jedi_Japan_Premiere_Red_Carpet-_Adam_Driver_%2827163437599%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Star_Wars-_The_Last_Jedi_Japan_Premiere_Red_Carpet-_Adam_Driver_%2827163437599%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/300px-Star_Wars-_The_Last_Jedi_Japan_Premiere_Red_Carpet-_Adam_Driver_%2827163437599%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2748" data-file-height="3802" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Adam_Driver" title="Adam Driver">Adam Driver</a>, who played <a href="/wiki/Ben_Solo" class="mw-redirect" title="Ben Solo">Ben Solo</a>, the son of <a href="/wiki/Han_Solo" title="Han Solo">Han Solo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Princess_Leia" title="Princess Leia">Princess Leia</a>, and a "Prince of Alderaan", in the <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy" title="Star Wars sequel trilogy">sequel trilogy</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Alderaan was originally featured in the first film, <i>Star Wars</i>, released in 1977. The opening scene depicts the capture of a small spaceship from Alderaan, the <i><a href="/wiki/Tantive_IV" title="Tantive IV">Tantive IV</a></i>, by the <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)" title="Galactic Empire (Star Wars)">Galactic Empire</a>, and introduces the character of Princess Leia Organa, a princess of the Royal House of Alderaan who is played by Carrie Fisher. </p><p>Alderaan appears in a later scene in the film, but is only shown on-screen in a distant view from space as the Empire's gigantic space station, the Death Star, moves into orbit around the planet. The battle station's commander, the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Moff_Tarkin" title="Grand Moff Tarkin">Grand Moff Tarkin</a> (<a href="/wiki/Peter_Cushing" title="Peter Cushing">Peter Cushing</a>) orders the Death Star's <a href="/wiki/Superweapon" class="mw-redirect" title="Superweapon">superweapon</a> to be fired at the planet as both a test of the superlaser at full power and as a message to the rest of the galaxy that the price of any type of resistance was extermination. Alderaan explodes instantly in a ball of fire. It is later shown that the shattered planet has been reduced to a cloud of <a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroids</a> as the <i><a href="/wiki/Millennium_Falcon" title="Millennium Falcon">Millennium Falcon</a></i> spaceship attempts to visit the planet.<sup id="cite_ref-SW_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SW-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The destruction of Alderaan meant that it was not depicted in subsequent <i>Star Wars</i> films until the series of prequel films was produced. The planet made its first on-screen appearance since 1977 in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_III_%E2%80%93_Revenge_of_the_Sith" title="Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith">Episode III: Revenge of the Sith</a></i> (2005), appearing briefly at the end of the film. The adoptive father of Princess Leia, <a href="/wiki/Bail_Organa" class="mw-redirect" title="Bail Organa">Bail Organa</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Smits" title="Jimmy Smits">Jimmy Smits</a>) is seen piloting a starship to the planet's surface, which is shown as a mountainous, alpine region covered in snow. Landing his ship in a <a href="/wiki/Citadel" title="Citadel">citadel</a> among the mountains, he brings the newborn Leia to the royal palace and introduces her to his wife, Queen Breha. The backdrop for these scenes was created by <a href="/wiki/Compositing" title="Compositing">compositing</a> landscape footage of Grindelwald in Switzerland with <a href="/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery" title="Computer-generated imagery">CGI</a> images of the city.<sup id="cite_ref-grindelwald-swissinfo_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grindelwald-swissinfo-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The planet is not featured in the 2016 film <i><a href="/wiki/Rogue_One" title="Rogue One">Rogue One</a></i>, but the character Bail Organa makes an appearance, stating that he will return to Alderaan to wait for his daughter, Leia, to bring the Jedi Master <a href="/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi" title="Obi-Wan Kenobi">Obi-Wan Kenobi</a>. This precedes the narrative of the 1977 film, <i>A New Hope</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He dies when the Death Star destroys the planet. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In an episode of the animated television series <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars_(2008_TV_series)" title="Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)">Star Wars: The Clone Wars</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-SW_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SW-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> entitled "Assassin", <a href="/wiki/Ahsoka_Tano" title="Ahsoka Tano">Ahsoka Tano</a> has premonitions of <a href="/wiki/Padm%C3%A9_Amidala" title="Padmé Amidala">Padmé</a>'s death on Alderaan. </p><p>The mercenary <a href="/wiki/Cara_Dune" title="Cara Dune">Carasynthia "Cara" Dune</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mandalorian" title="The Mandalorian">The Mandalorian</a></i>, is a former Republic Shock Trooper from Alderaan, according to <a href="/wiki/Moff_Gideon" title="Moff Gideon">Moff Gideon</a>, which she later confirms.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The planet appeared in the first and sixth episodes of the streaming series <i><a href="/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV series)">Obi-Wan Kenobi</a></i>, in scenes depicting the Organa's residence and its surroundings. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comics">Comics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Comics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The comic series <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Princess_Leia" title="Star Wars: Princess Leia">Star Wars: Princess Leia</a></i> (2015) deals with Princess Leia and Evaan Verlaine (a female rebel pilot also native from Alderaan), rescuing survivors from Alderaan's destruction. It also features a brief flashback to Leia's childhood on the planet and her relationship with her adoptive father Senator Bail Organa.<sup id="cite_ref-Princess_Leia_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Princess_Leia-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(2015_comic_book)" title="Star Wars (2015 comic book)">Star Wars</a></i> #33 (2017), Leia tells Luke that sometimes she can see Alderaan among the stars as, from certain perspectives in the galaxy, its light has not ceased to emit. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <blockquote><p>"We are Alderaan. We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer rage with hope. If one life with a single drop of Alderaanian blood survive, Alderaan survives. If one life with a passion for Alderaanian creativity survives—Alderaan survives. And we are, each of us, important. And whatever happens, I bow to all of you—and to our future." ― Leia Organa<sup id="cite_ref-Princess_Leia_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Princess_Leia-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>According to the book <i>Skywalker: A Family at War</i> by Kristin Baver, as the son of <a href="/wiki/Princess_Leia" title="Princess Leia">Princess Leia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ben_Solo" class="mw-redirect" title="Ben Solo">Ben Solo</a> would have inherited the title of "Prince of Alderaan" if the planet and the royal House of Organa not been destroyed by his grandfather, <a href="/wiki/Darth_Vader" title="Darth Vader">Darth Vader</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)" title="Galactic Empire (Star Wars)">Empire</a> prior to his birth. Upon the birth of Ben Solo, he was considered a member of the Elder Houses of the galaxy, and entitled through hereditary succession to ceremonial titles, including "Supreme Governor of Birren", a small planet settled by Alderaanian explorers in the Inner Rim of the galaxy.<sup id="cite_ref-Baver_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baver-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bloodline_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloodline-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the 2016 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Bloodline" title="Star Wars: Bloodline">Star Wars: Bloodline</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Claudia_Gray" title="Claudia Gray">Claudia Gray</a>, as well as the 2017 <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Wendig" title="Chuck Wendig">Chuck Wendig</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Aftermath:_Empire%27s_End" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End">Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End</a></i>, due to the destruction of Alderaan, Princess Leia gave birth to Ben on <a href="/wiki/Chandrila" class="mw-redirect" title="Chandrila">Chandrila</a>, the home planet of <a href="/wiki/Mon_Mothma" title="Mon Mothma">Mon Mothma</a>, as well as the temporary capital of the <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Republic#New_Republic" title="Galactic Republic">New Republic</a>. Ben was born in 5 ABY, one year and four days after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Endor" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Endor">Battle of Endor</a> in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_Return_of_the_Jedi" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars: Return of the Jedi">Star Wars: Return of the Jedi</a></i> (1983).<sup id="cite_ref-Gray_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gray-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the 2018 novel <i>Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel</i> by <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Jos%C3%A9_Older" title="Daniel José Older">Daniel José Older</a>, which features a young Ben Solo, the boy was never formally raised or <a href="/wiki/Investiture" title="Investiture">invested</a> as a "Prince of Alderaan",<sup id="cite_ref-Older_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Older-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> despite his mother leading the Alderaanian diaspora.<sup id="cite_ref-Bloodline_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloodline-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Out of the 2 billion inhabitants on Alderaan - with the modern-day populations of <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> and <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> having about 2.8 billion people combined - about 60,000 survived the destruction of the planet due to being outside of its star system at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-Carey_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carey-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the survivors, <a href="/wiki/Cara_Dune" title="Cara Dune">Cara Dune</a>, served as a marshal of the New Republic, presumably under Princess Leia, Ben Solo's mother, around 9 ABY.<sup id="cite_ref-SWCC_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SWCC-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dune is played by <a href="/wiki/Gina_Carano" title="Gina Carano">Gina Carano</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mandalorian" title="The Mandalorian">The Mandalorian</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legends"><i>Legends</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alderaan is mentioned frequently and also serves as a location in several works in the <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_expanded_to_other_media" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars expanded to other media"><i>Star Wars</i> Expanded Universe</a>, the collection of books, comics and other material considered outside official canon, now branded <i>Star Wars Legends</i>. In various stories, Alderaan is presented as the home of the characters <a href="/wiki/Tycho_Celchu" class="mw-redirect" title="Tycho Celchu">Tycho Celchu</a>, and of <a href="/wiki/Ulic_Qel_Droma" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulic Qel Droma">Ulic Qel Droma</a> who fought in the <a href="/wiki/Great_Sith_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Sith War">Great Sith War</a> in 4000 BBY.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Radio_drama">Radio drama</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Radio drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1981 <a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">NPR</a>/<a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(radio)" class="mw-redirect" title="Star Wars (radio)">radio drama adaptation of <i>Star Wars</i></a> features scenes set on Alderaan, in which Princess Leia discusses her mission to acquire the Death Star plans from agents of the <a href="/wiki/Rebel_Alliance" title="Rebel Alliance">Rebel Alliance</a> with her father, Bail Organa (Prestor Organa). In a later scene, she is confronted by the Imperial commander Lord Tion and accused of treason.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is established that Alderaan has a strict policy against weapons.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Novels">Novels</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Michael_A._Stackpole" title="Michael A. Stackpole">Michael A. Stackpole</a>'s 1998 novel, <i><a href="/wiki/I,_Jedi" title="I, Jedi">I, Jedi</a></i>, Alderaan features as the sanctuary of the <a href="/wiki/Caamasi" class="mw-redirect" title="Caamasi">Caamasi</a> when their home world of <a href="/wiki/Caamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Caamas">Caamas</a> is devastated by the <a href="/wiki/Galactic_Empire_(Star_Wars)" title="Galactic Empire (Star Wars)">Galactic Empire</a>. </p><p>Alderaan is featured in a 1991 <a href="/wiki/Role-playing_game" title="Role-playing game">role-playing game</a>, <i>Graveyard of Alderaan</i> (part of <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Roleplaying_Game" title="Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game">Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game</a></i>). It describes how, after the <a href="/wiki/Clone_Wars_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clone Wars (Star Wars)">Clone Wars</a>, Alderaan's massive war machine was dismantled, and the weapons were placed aboard an armory warship called <i>Another Chance</i>. The ship was programmed to continually jump through hyperspace until called home by the Alderanian Council. <a href="/wiki/Bill_Slavicsek" title="Bill Slavicsek">Bill Slavicsek</a>, who wrote the game's sourcebook, later drew from it for his edition of <i><a href="/wiki/A_Guide_to_the_Star_Wars_Universe" title="A Guide to the Star Wars Universe">A Guide to the Star Wars Universe</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESlavicsek1994xii,_13_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESlavicsek1994xii,_13-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Comics_2">Comics</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Comics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Dark_Horse_Comics" title="Dark Horse Comics">Dark Horse</a> comic <i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Empire" title="Dark Empire">Dark Empire</a></i> (1991–1992), New Alderaan is a Rebel Alliance colony planet populated by Alderaanians who were off-world when Alderaan was destroyed. <a href="/wiki/Mon_Mothma" title="Mon Mothma">Mon Mothma</a>'s daughter lives there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESlavicsek1994320_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESlavicsek1994320-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Galaxymap_p1.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Galaxymap_p1.svg/260px-Galaxymap_p1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Galaxymap_p1.svg/390px-Galaxymap_p1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Galaxymap_p1.svg/520px-Galaxymap_p1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1686" data-file-height="1192" /></a><figcaption>Alderaan (Core Worlds, M12) illustrated on a map of the fictional <i>Star Wars</i> galaxy</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Alan_Dean_Foster" title="Alan Dean Foster">Alan Dean Foster</a>'s 1976 <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_From_the_Adventures_of_Luke_Skywalker" title="Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker">novelization of the original film</a>, Alderaan is described as a "small green gem of a world".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The planet appears more substantially in <a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_reference_books" title="List of Star Wars reference books"><i>Star Wars</i> reference guides</a> to fictional locations. According to <a href="/wiki/Kevin_J._Anderson" title="Kevin J. Anderson">Kevin J. Anderson</a>'s <i>The Illustrated Star Wars Universe</i> (1995) and Wallace, Kolins and McKinney's <i>Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons</i> (1998), Alderaan is covered by wild grasslands, plains, forests and mountain ranges.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995189_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995189-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWallaceKolinsMcKinney19986–7_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWallaceKolinsMcKinney19986–7-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The planet has no ocean, but has a semi-frozen polar sea, and thousands of lakes and rivers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995193–94_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995193–94-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is rich in biodiversity, populated by a wide variety of flora and fauna, such as the <a href="/wiki/Nerf_(Star_Wars)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nerf (Star Wars)">nerf</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Thranta" class="mw-redirect" title="Thranta">thranta</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995192,_195_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995192,_195-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Human life on the planet is evidenced by a number of cities, built to harmonize with the natural environment such as on canyon walls, on stilts along the shoreline or under the polar ice.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995189_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995189-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The capital city, Aldera, has been built on a small island in the center of a <a href="/wiki/Caldera" title="Caldera">caldera</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995198–201_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995198–201-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWallaceKolinsMcKinney19986–7_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWallaceKolinsMcKinney19986–7-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Alderaanian people value arts and education highly,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995189_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson1995189-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and place high importance on their participation in the Galactic (later Imperial) Senate and the promotion of peace through demilitarization.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWallaceKolinsMcKinney19986–7_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWallaceKolinsMcKinney19986–7-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The largely <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democratic society</a> is formed as hereditary <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" title="Constitutional monarchy">constitutional monarchy</a>, ruled by the King or Queen of Alderaan from the Royal House of Antilles and later, due to marriage, the House of Organa.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWallaceKolinsMcKinney19986–7_28-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWallaceKolinsMcKinney19986–7-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The planetary government is the High Council of Alderaan, presided over by a <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister">First Chairman and Viceroy</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_analysis">Cultural analysis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Cultural analysis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The destruction of Alderaan is considered by some as an artistic depiction of the danger of <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapons</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and some claim it is used as a <span class="nowrap">pop-culture</span> example of inadequate political and military action leading to negative effects.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_planets_and_moons" title="List of Star Wars planets and moons">List of <i>Star Wars</i> planets and moons</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Han_Solo_Trilogy#Rebel_Dawn" title="The Han Solo Trilogy">Star Wars: The Han Solo Trilogy, Volume 3 – Rebel Dawn</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bacta_War" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bacta War">Star Wars: X-Wing, Book 4 – The Bacta War</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atlantis" title="Atlantis">Atlantis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/N%C3%BAmenor" title="Númenor">Númenor</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Footnotes</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to <i>A Guide to the Star Wars Universe</i>, which draws from the radio drama of the original film, weapons were banned after the violence of the Clone Wars.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESlavicsek199412_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESlavicsek199412-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p><b>Citations</b> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-SW-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-SW_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SW_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-SW_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style 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Ballantine Books. pp. xii, 12–13. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-345-38625-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-345-38625-6"><bdi>0-345-38625-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Guide+to+the+Star+Wars+Universe&rft.pages=xii%2C+12-13&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Ballantine+Books&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=0-345-38625-6&rft.aulast=Slavicsek&rft.aufirst=Bill&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlderaan" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWallaceKolinsMcKinney1998" class="citation book cs1">Wallace, Daniel; Kolins, Scott; McKinney, Brandon (1998). <i>Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons</i> (1st ed.). New York: Ballantine Pub. Group. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780345420688" title="Special:BookSources/9780345420688"><bdi>9780345420688</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Star+Wars%3A+The+Essential+Guide+to+Planets+and+Moons&rft.place=New+York&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Ballantine+Pub.+Group&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=9780345420688&rft.aulast=Wallace&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rft.au=Kolins%2C+Scott&rft.au=McKinney%2C+Brandon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlderaan" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Star Wars: Roleplaying Game – Coruscant and the Core Worlds</i>, hardcover 2003, by Craig R. Carey, Chris Doyle, Jason Fry, Paul Sudlow, John Terra, Daniel Wallace, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7869-2879-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-7869-2879-4">0-7869-2879-4</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWindham2015" class="citation book cs1">Windham, Ryder (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=U-_uoQEACAAJ"><i>Ultimate Star Wars</i></a>. DK. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781465436016" title="Special:BookSources/9781465436016"><bdi>9781465436016</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ultimate+Star+Wars&rft.pub=DK&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=9781465436016&rft.aulast=Windham&rft.aufirst=Ryder&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DU-_uoQEACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlderaan" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alderaan&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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