The adventure novel exhibits these " protagonist on adventurous journey " characteristics as do many popular feature films, such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

The voice of C-3PO from Star Wars was created by taking the actor's voice and treating it with a phaser.

* overdrive effects such as the use of a fuzz box can be used to produce distorted sounds, such as for imitating robotic voices or to simulate distorted radiotelephone traffic ( e. g., the radio chatter between starfighter pilots in the science fiction film Star Wars ).

Preproduction for the film had coincided with the casting process for George Lucas's Star Wars, and many of the actors cast in De Palma's film had been earmarked as contenders for Lucas's movie, and vice-versa.

* SWGEmu-An open source community project aimed to develop, maintain and expand a free Pre-CU-era Star Wars Galaxies server software set.

One of the most famous cyborgs is Darth Vader from the Star Wars films.

General Grievous, Lobot, and Luke Skywalker are the three other most prominent cyborgs in the Star Wars universe.

* Various characters in Star Wars saga, notably Darth Vader, General Grievous, Dengar, Lobot, and Luke Skywalker.

The tumultuous history of the Wars of the Roses and then the Star Chamber resulted in periods during which the common law courts were frequently paralyzed, and out of the confusion the Court of Chancery emerged with exclusive jurisdiction over group litigation.

In the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, two life-forms were encountered by the characters that were non-carbon based entities.

Although details of their physiology were not mentioned on screen, the space slug, ( a giant worm-like creature that lived on asteroids in the vacuum of space ), and the Mynock, ( pesky bat-like vermin that would attach to spaceship hulls and chew through power conduits to feed off the raw energy ), are said to be silicon-based organisms in Star Wars Expanded Universe sources.

Appearing only in the Star Wars Expanded Universe is the spice spider of Kessel, a creature made of glitterstim spice and silicon that spun crystalline webs harvested by miners as glitterstim spice, an illegal psychoactive narcotic.

In ‘ Wild Horses ’ characters are named after the Star Trek crew and the influence of Star Wars pervades throughout.

The Afghan war and the Soviet response to Mr. Reagan's Star Wars program caused only a relatively small rise in defense costs.

* Clone Wars ( Star Wars ), a TV show and movie based around the Star Wars universe

* Clone trooper, a fictional soldier in the Star Wars universe

Notable disco hits based on movie and television themes included a medley from Star Wars, " Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band " ( 1977 ) by Meco, and " Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone " ( 1979 ) by The Manhattan Transfer.

All three of his children have appeared in the three Star Wars prequels, as has Lucas himself.

He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A. E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels.

In the Star Wars prequel films, her mother is identified as Padmé Amidala ; her adoptive father is Bail Organa, who is depicted as the head of Alderaan's royal family and a supporting character in the prequels.

On May 12, 2000, Christensen announced that he would be starring as Anakin Skywalker in the next two prequels Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones ( 2002 ) and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith ( 2005 ).

Dolby Digital Surround EX has since been used for the Star Wars prequels on the DVD versions and also the remastered original Star Wars trilogy.

Notable examples are Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, which is recognized as one of the first film prequels and the Star Wars prequel trilogy.

Star Wars IV: A New Hope could be considered in medias res since it opens in the middle of a chase and battle scene, but not because of having subsequent prequels.

One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop ( along with his brother, Thomas Knoll ), he is recently best known for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the Star Wars prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy.

After completing The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Miller launched a series of what he referred to as prequels with All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder.

The Star Wars prequels also ushered in a new era of digital filmmaking, and McCallum played a leading role in its development.

* Galactic Senate Building ( Coruscant )-one of the innumerable towers covering the fictional city-planet of Coruscant from the Star Wars universe, first seen on film in the Special Edition of Return of the Jedi ( 1997 ), then in the Star Wars prequels.

RenderMan is often used in creating digital visual effects for the Hollywood blockbuster movies of today such as Titanic, the Star Wars prequels, and The Lord of the Rings.

They are usually credited after the rest of the lead cast, prefixed with " and " ( or also " with " if there is more than one, as Samuel L. Jackson was in the latter two Star Wars prequels ).

Silas Carson ( born 1965 ) is an English actor, mostly known for playing Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi and Viceroy Nute Gunray in all three of the Star Wars prequels and providing the voice of the Ood in Doctor Who.

Khādī was used, and dyed random colors, in some of the costumes for the Star Wars prequels, such as Mace Windu's ( Samuel L. Jackson ) attire.

* Terryl Whitlatch, illustration instructor who has worked extensively as a creature designer on the Star Wars prequels, where she worked directly with George Lucas

Son of comedian / singer Harry Secombe ( whom he later impersonated in a Goon Show special ), the younger Secombe is probably best known for providing the voice of Watto in the Star Wars prequels.

Sanderson also pointed out that Miller's view of All Star Batman and Robin as prequels to his graphic novels Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again suggests that the darker, grittier take on Batman and his more dysfunctional relationship with Robin make sense when taken in context, and that Batman's rough treatment of Dick Grayson reveals a lot about the inner workings of Batman's personality.

He is best known as the stunt coordinator for the Star Wars prequels.

The Empire's origins are explained in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, where it replaces the Galactic Republic in the midst of a galactic civil war orchestrated by Palpatine, then the Republic's Supreme Chancellor.

Later fictional universes, like Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories or Lev Grossman's Fillory, are global in scope and some, like Star Wars, Honorverse, or the Lensman series, are galactic or even intergalactic.

The term " galactic empire " has, no doubt because of association with the Empire from Star Wars, gained an unfavorable reputation.

In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Ferengi Alliance is the group of inhabited and controlled worlds located northeast of the Federation on the galactic map.

The motion of halo stars does bring them through the disc on occasion, and a number of small red dwarf stars close to the Sun are thought to belong to the galactic halo, for example Kapteyn's Star and Groombridge 1830.

* Star formation caused by density waves in the galactic disk of the galaxy.

Star Command is a peacekeeping organization consisting of Space Rangers, who investigate threats to galactic peace.

The Clone Wars are a series of fictional galactic battles in George Lucas's science fiction saga Star Wars.

Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha is a galactic sector containing Earth, Barnard's Star, and probably other nearby systems.

* The library computer entry on the Planet Killer in the CD-ROM game Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy mentions a school of thought suggesting that the galactic energy barrier may have been constructed ages ago to keep such planet killers out of the galaxy.

* The Star Knights ( galactic peacekeepers analogous to DC's Green Lantern Corps, the Jedi Knights or Marvel's Rom's Space Knights )

In Olaf Stapledon's 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker, some advanced galactic civilizations attempted to use stellar engines to propel their planetary systems across the galaxy in order to physically contact other advanced galactic civilizations.

Phantasy Star, Phantasy Star II, and Phantasy Star IV all deal with the concept of evil as a living, sentient entity that takes an active interest in galactic events.

Mujoe and The Hige Hige Bandits, sick and tired of Bomberman repeatedly stopping their plans at galactic conquest, enact a plan to do away with him and his kind forever ; Dark Star, Mujoe's artificial comet, would be used and hurled straight into Bomberman's home world, Planet Bomber.