Telescope/Legends
A telescope was a device used to magnify images in much the same way as a pair of macrobinoculars. It was presumably related to the electrotelescope.
Characteristics
A telescope was a type of simple sensor. It examined the energy emitted by other sources.[1]
History
In 4 BBY Lando Calrissian longed for an optical telescope as opposed to the electronic magnifier aboard the Millennium Falcon that was not functioning due to the effects of the Flamewind.[2]
During his time on Tatooine, Luke Skywalker wished he owned a telescope rather than his macrobinoculars.[3]
While talking with Teneniel Djo, Prince Isolder remarked that if one had a powerful enough telescope, they could see the Fere inhabitants as they once were many years ago before they were wiped out by a plague, by seeing the light reflected off the planet just reaching the eye. However, Isolder then said, that such a telescope did not exist.[4]
Prior to its destruction at the beginning of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the outpost of ExGal-4 on Belkadan used both ground-based and orbiting scopes.[5]
Appearances
- Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void
- Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void audiobook
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Starfighter (Codex entry)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire (Mentioned only)
- Outbound Flight
- Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon (Mentioned only)
- Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novelization (First appearance)
Ewoks—"Night of the Stranger"- The Courtship of Princess Leia
"The Masters of Exocron"—The Kathol Outback - Before the Storm
- Young Jedi Knights: Heirs of the Force
- The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime
Sources
- The Star Wars Sourcebook
- Planets of the Galaxy, Volume Two
- Star Wars Sourcebook, Second Edition
- The Star Wars Planets Collection
Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Hoth Limited (Card: Probe Antennae) (backup link)- Star Wars Trilogy Sourcebook, Special Edition
"Arms & Equipment Guide Extras!" (original article link) on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link)- "We Don't Need That Scum" (original article link) on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Suns of Fortune
