Volume 1: the very ancient Republic
Volume 2: the Tales of the Jedi/KOTOR era

Sorry for the delay, guys--the endnotes for the prequel and OT portions of the article are much more involved, since the era is more complicated and there were a lot more sources that I drew from. So, like any creative type worth his salt, I put them off.

This is going to be a long entry, so grab some popcorn and sit back.

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Art for Art's Sake is the English translation of the Latin "Ars gratia artis", seen on the famous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo.

"The merchants, whose power had become exorbitant during the terms of Frix and Kalpana, and whom the prudence of Valorum had scarce reduced into some degree of subjection to the chancellery, had now resumed their ancient license in its utmost extent: despising the feeble interference of the Senate, fortifying their worlds, increasing the number of their dependants, reducing all around them to a state of vassalage, and striving by every means in their power to place themselves each at the head of such forces as might enable him to make a figure in the galactic convulsions which appeared to be impending." -- Wottlet Scarsir, Historia Galactica Volume Seventy: Iaco Stark to the Clone Wars

This is the first of the three epigraphs that are not my work (the other two being Afyon's and Vader's quotes later on.)

Full disclosure: this is adapted from the second paragraph of Ivanhoe (http://www.enotes.com/ivanhoe-text/) with several of the names and terms altered for their Star Wars analogues. The IU author is an obvious analogue to Sir Walter Scott, which keeps it in the realm of attributed homage, and there is precedent for real-world quotes being repurposed for the EU. See Burdock, and Mandalore the Ultimate channeling Clausewitz. Ivanhoe is in the public domain in any case so this falls under the same category as, say, Star Trek co-opting Hamlet "in the original Klingon."

My original name for the author was the sledgehammer-subtle "Sirwal Ter-Sk'kot" (itself a nod to Rebel Dawn's Sk'kot Burrid) but this was wisely replaced with "Wottlet Scarsir."

I'll be honest, I came up with the idea of Star Wars-izing this passage when I read Ivanhoe in 2001/02--the parallels seemed too obvious to ignore--and then I sat on it for 6 years. You never know when you'll find a use for this stuff.

Kalpana was established in the NEGTC as Valorum's predecessor.

His predecessor Frix is new, and is a nod to Grizz Frix, of WTS fame. I'd like to think they are related, but that's for future authors to decide.

Iaco Stark was the instigator of the Stark Hyperspace War, from the comic of the same name, and I deliberately chose Volume Seventy to reinforce that this roughly thirty-year period is only a tiny, tiny fraction of the recorded history of the Star Wars galaxy.

Tannon Praji was named and created by Zack Bossan for WTS, and much of this article is clearly drawn from his work. In fact, I owe to him the entire inspiration behind this article. I really encourage you to read his original Databank entry, as well as his blog entry on the matter here, where you can even read the original text of his submission.

The museums of Porus Vida were introduced in Darksaber, just in time to be destroyed by Imperial Colonel Cronus.

The Sharu ruins are, of course, from the underrated and much-maligned Lando Calrissian Trilogy.

The Raltiiri aphorism is new and I quite like it--it's the obvious rich person's analogue to the saying "Look after the pennies and the dollars will look after themselves," but with the decimal points shifted just a hair.

He was one of the first appointees of Palpatine's administration and became the Second Minister of the Coruscant Ministry of Ingress, under First Minister Zelebitha Effhod.

Effhod was first mentioned on HoloNet News. Bossan's original Tannon Praji Databank entry said she was appointed early in Palpatine's term. (Wookieepedia says she is female, but doesn't cite a source and I can tell you that their article had her listed as "unknown gender" at the time I wrote TTSP. It may be in the Complete Encyclopedia.)

Also according to Wookieepedia, the Fact Files established that Effhod was the First Minister shortly before AOTC, but I don't have access to that so I can't confirm.

I reconciled all of these by postulating that Tannon was appointed Second Minister but was the effective decisionmaker, and was promoted to First Minister sometime between HNN and AOTC.

The passages describing the spaceport conditions are extrapolated from existing material, but I'm irrationally proud of how they turned out. I have some more ideas for this that I'd love to be able to expand on someday....

At the age of 38, on the eve of the Battle of Geonosis, Tannon Praji was elevated to First Minister of the CMoI.

John Knoll, who played Praji, was born in 1962. ROTS was filmed in 2003, so he would have been 41 (depending on his birthday, I suppose, but I'm not that OCD). Work backwards 3 years to AOTC, so Praji is 38. Sure, it's pedantic, but for myself I like to have some kind of rationale for numerical figures, even if this one is extremely obscure/in-jokey.

Quannot's Syndrome is what "did in" Nichos Marr in Children of the Jedi. I almost used Knowt's Disease, but that had already been referenced twice after its original appearance, whereas Quannot's had never appeared outside of COTJ. (The shared-universe creative process is a damned peculiar animal. )

And it is true that he considered the grimmest episode of the Clone Wars the destruction of the Museum of Light on Tandis Four, orchestrated by Count Dooku to demoralize Loyalists in the region.

This event was mentioned in MedStar II: Jedi Healer (page 84) and I worked it into my WTS submissions on at least one occasion.

Despite his rhetoric Dooku waged his war like any common heathen, no better than his minions Durge or Grievous.

Durge has been basically forgotten about since Grievous was introduced , and as an aficionado of the "old school Clone Wars" comics from 2002-2005, I jumped at the chance to bring him back, if only in a very small way. (Operation Durge's Lance is mentioned later, but that's kind of a different thing.)

It seemed to play especially well here, as Durge embodies the "barbaric" nature of the war, where referencing Ventress wouldn't have given the same effect.

BTW, "heathen" is not meant in the literal sense here.

He felt caught between the Black Hole of Nakat and the Magataran Maelstrom: this saying is from Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter (page 210 of the hardcover), itself an allusion to the saying "trapped between Scylla and Charybdis", the progenitor of the less evocative modern phrase "between a rock and a hard place." One of many, many literary/mythological allusions in Michael Reaves' novels, if you know where to look.

Volume 4: the Clone Wars continue!