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* **After the Battle of Yavin (ABY)**: Events taking place after the Battle of Yavin.
* **Apprentice**: A student training under a master with the goal of learning a craft or religion.
* **Atheism**: A lack of belief in deities or a general lacking of spirituality.
* **Aurebesh**: The written language form of Galactic Basic Standard.

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* **Basic**: *See Galactic Basic Standard*.
* **Before the Battle of Yavin (BBY)**: Events that happen before the Battle of Yavin on the galactic calendar.
* **Bronzium**: A bronze-colored metal used in statues and other decorations.

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* **Capital**: A settlement or planet that served as the seat of a government or administrative district.
* **Clan**: A family unit.
* **Continent**: A large landmass distinguished from an island.
* **Cosmic Force**: An aspect of the Force that connects living beings together and has a sentient will.
* **Cyborg**: An individual who has enhanced themselves with cybernetics.
* **Cycle**: Another term meaning a year.

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* **Dark side of the Force**: A method of using the Force aligned with anger, greed, hatred, and attachment.
* **Democracy**: A system of government in which the people are sovereign and vote on their representatives.
* **Durasteel**: A type of metal alloy that is stronger than ordinary steel but weaker than titanium.

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* **Ecumenopolis**: A planet or moon covered by one continuous city.
* **Extragalactic**: A term to refer to a place outside of a galaxy.

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* **Female**: A gender identity in which the being expresses feminine qualities.
* **Feudalism**: A system of arranging society around land ownership.
* **The Force**: An energy field created by all life that binds the multiverse together.
* **Force ghost**: The esence of dead Force-sensitives expressing themselves through the cosmic Force.
* **Force-sensitive**: A being capable of feeling and manipulating the Force.
* **Forest**: A large swath of land covered by trees and underbrush.
* **Futhark**: The ancient written runic alphabet of the Naboo.
* **Futhork**: The modern informal alphabet of the Naboo.

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* **Galactic Basic Standard**: The primary trade language used in the galaxy.
* **Galactic standard calendar**: A standard for measuring time across the entire galaxy based on the orbital motion of Corusant.
* **Galaxy**: A space containing billions of stars and planets.
* **The galaxy**: The setting of the *Star Wars* franchise.
* **Gender**: A social construction by which a being expresses feelings of masculinity, femininity, fluidity between the two, or none at all.
* **Great Mother**: A title adopted by the leader of a Dathomirian witch coven.

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* **Head of state**: A title given to the leader of a nation or sovereign state.
* **Historian**: A being who studies history.
* **History**: A discipline that involves reconstructing the past through primary sources.
* **Huttese**: The language of the Hutts and a common trade tongue in the Outer Rim.
* **Hybrid**: A mixture between two different substances or species.
* **Hyperspace**: An alternate dimension that allows faster-than-light travel.

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* **Immortality**: A state of being unable to die.
* **Island**: A smaller spat of land surrounded completely on all sides by water.

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* **Kyber crystal**: A Force-sensitive crystal that can amplify energy and typically powers the lightsabers of the Jedi.

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* **Lightsaber**: A laser sword weapon that serves as the signature weapon of the Jedi and Sith Orders.
* **Light side of the Force**: A method of using the Force aligned with calmness, peace, passivity, knowledge, and defense.
* **Living Force**: An aspect of the Force generated by living beings.

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* **Male**: A masculine gender designation.
* **Mando'a**: The language of the Mandalorian people.
* **Meter**: A unit of measuring length or height. 1,000 meters made a kilometer.
* **Monasticism**: A religious lifestyle that involves devoting one's life entirely to spirituality.
* **Midichlorians**: Microscopic life forms responsible for Force-sensitivity.
* **Millennium**: A unit of measuring time equal to one thousand years.
* **Moon**: An astrological object that orbited a planet as a sattelite.
* **Monarchy**: A form of government where the head of state is a monarch, such as a king, queen, or emperor.
* **Mountain**: An upheaved area of crust caused by tectonic activity on a planet or moon.

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* **Non-binary**: A gender designation whereby the being does not identify as solely masculine or feminine.

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* **Ocean**: The largest bodies of water on a given planet.

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* **Padawan**: A Jedi trainee studying under a Knight or a Master.
* **Plain**: A broad, flat landscape usually covered in grasslands.
* **Planet**: An astronomical object that orbits a star.
* **Plasma**: A state of matter with unique electromagnetic properties.
* **Politics**: Activities associated with policies of governments.
* **Pyramid**: An architectural structure shaped like a three-dimensional triangle. It was common arcitecture among the Sith.

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* **Realspace**: The dimension in which all life exists.
* **River**: A freshwater stream flowing through caves or across land from a higher elevation to a larger body of water at a lower elevation.

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* **Separation of powers**: A system in which government is divided into co-equal branches to provide checks and balances on each branch's powers.
* **Sector**: A political division containing numerous planetary systems.
* **Sector capital**: A planet which serves as the central point of administration for a sector.
* **Sentience**: A quality of self-awareness, abstract thinking, and experiencing emotion found in some life forms.
* **Sex**: The biological markers that determine reproduction within a species.
* **Solar system**: A collection of planets orbiting a star.
* **Space**: *See Realspace*.
* **Standard year**: A unit of standardized time used by the entire galaxy. It was the same as a Coruscant year and had no leap years.
* **Star**: A superheated sphere of gas and plasma that produced light and energy.
* **Star system**: A group of celestial bodies orbiting one or more stars.
* **Strand-Cast** or **strandcast**: A genetically engineered being using an existing template (but not a clone).
* **State**: A nation or territory considered unified under a single government.
* **System**: *See Solar System*.

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* **Temporate**: A climate of mild weather and temperatures.
* **Theocracy**: A state whereby a religion or religious leaders control the government.
* **Time**: A means of measuring the passage of events within a particular universe.
* **Timeline**: The continuity of time within a single universe.
* **Time travel**: The method of traversing time.
* **Trade Federation (language)**: The main trade language used by members of the Trade Federation.

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* **Universe**: An unfathomable space that contains galaxies and the smaller components of space and life.

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* **World**: *See Planet*.

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* **Year**: A measurement of time involving a planet's full rotation around its star.
* **Youngling**: A term referring to an infant or child.

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