Handy Wookieepedia Tricks

Here are wonderful tricks on Wookieepedia. Without the category links, I had to pull up an article and click on the categories at the bottom of the page.

• Read the featured articles for tidbits of random information (There are two--under the article showing, there is "This week's other featured article:" which you can click.)
• On the right, there is a box that is titled "Navigation;" at the bottom, there is a link titled "Random page." Click it and Wookieepedia selects a random article throughout the entire site.
• Go to http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Individuals_by_gender for a list of genders by which you can search for an individual.
• Go to http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Individuals_by_planet for a list of individuals by planet.
• Go to http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Individuals_by_species for a list of individuals by species.
• Go to http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Individuals for a list of categories by which you can search for an individual.
• Go to http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Sentient_species_by_name for a list of sentient (not animal/creature) species listed alphabetically.

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General Grievous

I know it seems silly that I haven't blogged about this character yet, what with my obvious obsession with him. Well, here he is.

General Grievous was a Kaleesh cyborg, formerly known as Qymaen jai Sheelal (QUEE-men JY shuh-LOLL). The warlord from Kalee had a shuttle crash, and was given the robotic skeleton of a Krath war droid to supplement what little remained of his biotic self: his brain, sensory organs, and his nervous system. He was quite arrogant due to his skill and tact in combat, but often ran when in sight of defeat--to many, such as Jedi Master Mace Windu, he was viewed as a coward.

As a young Kaleesh warrior, he was famous for his marksmanship against the Huk, technically called the Yam'rii. By eight he had slain more than forty, and by twenty-two the number was so great that he was considered a demigod.

He was shot several times by Obi-Wan Kenobi at the end of the duel between the two and his organs ignited, killing the Kaleesh cyborg. He was worshipped on Kalee after his death. His parts were salvaged and used to create N-K Necrosis, a masculine combat droid that lived a relatively short life, to be destroyed and gutted by an unidentified group of spacers.

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TC-14

Programmed a female, TC-14 was seen in The Phantom Menace, dishing out protocol on the Saak'ak. In case you're wondering, Saak'ak is the ship in which Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi held the "negotiations" regarding trade disputes concerning the planet of Naboo. It was she who informed Nute Gunray of her suspicions that the Negotiators were Jedi--she was right. She also "distracted" the Jedi with pleasantries while Gunray and another Neimoidian.

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The Jedi Code

These are several versions of the Jedi Code. The first is older, and the second better known, but the third is used as well.

Emotion, yet peace.
Ignorance, yet knowledge.
Passion, yet serenity.
Chaos, yet harmony.
Death, yet the Force.

There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
There is no chaos, there is harmony.
There is no death, there is the Force.
(This version was written by Jedi Master Odan-Urr. He did not write the Code, but rather refined an existing version.)

Jedi are the guardians of peace in the galaxy.
Jedi use their powers to defend and to protect.
Jedi respect all life, in any form.
Jedi serve others rather then ruling over them, for the good of the galaxy.
Jedi seek to improve themselves through knowledge and training.

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C-3PO

C-3PO, See-Threepio, or just Threepio, first belonged to Anakin Skywalker, his creator, and his owners included Jabba the Hutt, who owned Threepio just briefly, Luke Skywalker, Padme Amidala, Owen and Beru Lars, and even Leia, at one point. He was often abused and found himself missing limbs and other extremities, but he is a lovable, if often irritating, droid.

As he often introduced himself, "I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations." And he boasted this a number of times: "I am fluent in over 6 million forms of communication."

He started out as "naked," but was eventually given silver and then brasslike gold coverings. Although he hated spacetravel and overall anything remotely adventurous, he participated in those kinds of things frequently, being involved constantly with battles of the Galactic Republic or the Rebellion. Go to http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/C-3PO if you wish to know more about this protocol droid.

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MagnaGuard

Grievous's personal body guards, MagnaGuards (MAG-nuh GARDS) are build specifically to fight Jedi. Their energy-enfused staffs are called electrostaffs, and are made of phrik metal, which are resistant to lighsaber blades. Their capes were similar to Kaleesh who served Grievous when he was fully biotic. Technically called IG-100 MagnaGuards, they came in blue, alabaster, black, and, rarely, gray. MagnaGuards were able to speak, and often taunted their opponents in battle. They could fight while missing a head, as demonstrated by the MagnaGuard that fought Obi-Wan Kenobi on the Invisible Hand (the ship on which Chancellor Palpatine was rescued from Count Dooku and General Grievous by Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan), due to an extra "eye" (photoreceptor) on their chests. Grievous, unsatisfied by their combat programming, erased their minds and trained each individual in lightsaber fighting techniques. The general also disallowed all repairs to the MagnaGuards, intending to intimidate oponents with the scarred and/or maimed combat droids.

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