- "I have placed flowers on the gravesite of a good friend every year. I've tried several times already this year and I always seem to get turned back. Could you please take these flowers to the gravestone marked Shmi at the old Lars' homestead?"
- ―Sorna, to a spacer
Sorna was an Human woman who lived on the desert world of Tatooine. She was an old friend of Shmi Skywalker. After Shmi Skywalker's death,[1] in 22 BBY during the Separatist Crisis,[2] she used to place flowers on her grave at the Lars homestead every year. At some point during the Galactic Civil War, about twenty years later, the old woman Sorna was unable to do so.[1] In 1 ABY,[3] one of her friends, the manager of Tosche Station Cuan Talon hired a spacer to help the woman.[4] Sorna thus sent the spacer to the Lars homestead to place the flowers for her.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Sorna was a non-player character in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[5]
There is a discrepancy between this storyline and Ryder Windham's novel, A New Hope: The Life of Luke Skywalker. In the novel, it was established that the gravestones on the Lars homestead had all been removed by Owen Lars before 15 BBY, so it shouldn't be possible for Sorna or the player to place flowers on Shmi's grave.
Appearances[]
- Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit (First appearance)
Sources[]
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game — Champions of the Force (Card: Flowers for Shmi) (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10
Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit — Quest: "Flowers for Shmi" on Tatooine
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
- ↑ According to its opening crawl, Star Wars Galaxies was set sometime after Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. The only precise time indication in the game was given by the character Ruwan Tokai, who referenced the destruction of the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin as occurring one year earlier, placing the game sometime around 1 ABY. Later, multiple elements confirmed the placement of the game storyline in 1 ABY. First, The Essential Reader's Companion established that the tie-in novel Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine took place in 1 ABY. Furthermore, the game expansion Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees was set during the Blockade of Kashyyyk, one year after the Battle of Yavin according to The Star Wars Holiday Special. Additionally, the main scenario of The Nightsister's Revenge from the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game was set over a year before the Battle of Hoth (3 ABY), so around 1.5 ABY. Finally, the reference book Strongholds of Resistance placed the events of Star Wars Galaxies's Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" one year after the Battle of Yavin. Of note, Galaxies's Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" introduced the Battle of Hoth in the game. However, the developers were quite clear that this was only intended to be a completely isolated "Star Wars Moment" without any effect on continuity for the rest of the game.
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit — Quest: "Find Sorna" on Tatooine
- ↑ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (content now obsolete; backup link)
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