Cantina Communications

Cantina Communications is a short story written by John Chesterman, originally published in Star Wars Official Poster Monthly 16, The Star Wars Compendium 2: The World of Star Wars, and later archived on Hyperspace.

Plot summary

As Obi-Wan Kenobi searches through the crowd at the Mos Eisley cantina, Luke Skywalker reflects on the various forms of communication used by the different alien species in the room. He recalls his and Obi-Wan's earlier discussion of which species makes the best pilots.

Behind the scenes

This article marks the first and only appearance of several alien species, such as the sentient ocean of Solanus, the giant algae beds of the Cygnus B system, Klytonians, a particular species of olfaxes, and an unidentified species of emotionless multiple-eyed insectoids described as the best pilots in the galaxy. More mundanely, it also mentions dogs.

Appearances

By type

Characters	Creatures	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Garindan (Picture only) Elis Helrot (Picture only) Kardue'sai'Malloc (Picture only) Obi-Wan Kenobi M'iiyoom Onith (Picture only) Luke Skywalker Solanus's sentient ocean (First mentioned) Han Solo (Mentioned only) Feltipern Trevagg (Picture only)

Creatures

Dog (Mentioned only) Olfax (Mentioned only)

Locations

Cygnus B system (Mentioned only) Solanus (Mentioned only) Tatooine Mos Eisley Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina

Organizations and titles

Galactic Empire (Mentioned only) Stormtrooper (Mentioned only)

Sentient species

Devaronian (Picture only) Giant algae-bed (First appearance) Gas cloud (First appearance) Givin (Picture only) Gotal (Picture only) H'nemthe (Picture only) Human Klytonian (First appearance) Kubaz (Picture only)

Miscellanea

Universal Encyclopedia (First appearance)

External links

• Cantina Communications on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com; backup link)

In other languages

• русский