Star Tours (company)

Star Tours is the titular fictional travel agency found in the Star Tours and Star Tours: The Adventures Continue theme park attractions. It is set in the Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. Star Tours offers intergalactic sightseeing tours of celestial bodies throughout the galaxy, utilizing transports from StarSpeeder family of spacecrafts. Star Tours' spacecrafts are operated by a droid crew consisting of one pilot droid and one astromech droid. Star Tours was plagued with accidents throughout its history, eventually driving the company out of business.

StarSpeeder 1000
During the years in between the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War, Star Tours was known to operate the StarSpeeder 1000 spacecraft. Star Tours' paint scheme for the StarSpeeder 1000 consisted of orange and gray stripes on white, with the Star Tours logo displayed underneath the front windscreen. Star Tours was not the only company during this time to operate the StarSpeeder 1000 spacecraft.

StarSpeeder 3000
Main article: StarSpeeder 3000

During and after the Galactic Civil War, Star Tours operated the StarSpeeder 3000, an updated or upgraded version of the 1000 model. Star Tours-operated StarSpeeder 3000 could only be told apart from their StarSpeeder 1000 predecessors by the paint scheme. Star Tours' livery for the StarSpeeder 3000 consisted of an almost completely white paint scheme with two thin light blue stripes running along the sides of the fuselage, with the Star Tours logo or flight number displayed adjacent to the entry and exit doors to the front passenger seating row.

Other craft
Though the StarSpeeder family of transports dominated the Star Tours fleet, Star Tours operated at least one other type of ship, a ship of Corellian design similar to the CR90 corvette. It is unknown how many the company operated, though one particular craft was lost in a freak accident in which its hyperdrive was activated, sending the ship crashing into Dathomir, killing nearly all of its passengers.

Incidents and accidents

 * 0 ABY - A Star Tours flight involving a Corellian-built yacht known as the Tzarina, a ship of similar design to the CR90 corvette, occurred during the Battle of Yavin. When the tour was diverted towards Yavin, an out-of-control Imperial TIE fighter collided with the Tzarina, inadvertently activating its hyperdrive, sending the vessel towards Dathomir, where it crash landed. The ensuing crash killed all but one passenger.
 * 4.3 ABY - Star Tours Flight 45 was a flight involving a StarSpeeder 3000 en route to Endor, which found itself in a series of several dangerous incidents attributed to pilot error. The ship, piloted by inexperienced pilot droid RX-24 AKA "Rex," nearly crashed upon takeoff, suddenly making a sharp turn toward the spaceport's maintenance bay instead of the spaceport's launch corridor. With the pilot unable to stop the craft, the ship crashed through the hangar bay doors and fell precariously towards the bottom of the hangar before recovering and escaping the spaceport. This was followed by a miscalculated jump to hyperspace, in which the ship overshot the moon of Endor, instead ending up in a field of comets. Captain Rex dangerously but successfully navigated the ship through a massive comet, only to be caught in the tractor beam of an Imperial Star Destroyer during a space battle between Imperial forces and the New Republic, which involved an Imperial Death Star battlestation. With the assistance of a Republic X-wing pilot, the StarSpeeder escaped the tractor beam and found itself accompanying an entire squadron of New Republic X-wing starfighters on its assault on the Death Star. As the squadron and StarSpeeder made their way down the Death Star's trench, Captain Rex used the StarSpeeder's forward laser cannons to fend off Imperial TIE fighters while an X-wing pilot fired proton torpedoes into the Death Star's thermal exhaust port to destroy the battlestation. The X-wing fighters and StarSpeeder immediately jumped to lightspeed as the Death Star disintegrated in a fiery explosion. Flight 45 made its way back toward the spaceport from which the flight originated, but came out of lightspeed too fast, narrowly missing a fuel truck in the spaceport before landing safely. It is unknown what became of Captain Rex following the events of Flight 45.

Destinations
Star Tours offered flights to the following destinations throughout its history:
 * Alderaan
 * Bespin
 * Bogden
 * Christophsis
 * Coruscant
 * Endor
 * Geonosis
 * Hoth
 * Mustafar
 * Naboo
 * Panna
 * Polis Massa
 * Tatooine
 * Yavin 4

Staff
The following characters have been known to work for Star Tours at some point in time.
 * AC-38
 * Aly San San
 * C-3PO
 * Dad
 * G2-4T
 * G2-9T
 * LGB
 * R2-D2
 * R2-D5
 * R3-A2
 * R3-D3
 * R4-M9
 * RX-24