Star Tours offers intergalactic sightseeing tours of celestial bodies throughout the galaxy, utilizing transports from the StarSpeeder family of spacecraft among others. Droids represented a large part of Star Tours' workforce.
Star Tours was founded sometime before the Clone Wars initially providing travel packages to only a few destinations such as Glee Anselm and Naboo.
The business had greatly expanded, however, in the years within the Galactic Civil War. During this time, Star Tours faced considerable scrutiny from The Empire because the spaceline was merely a front for the Rebel Alliance. After the Battle of Endor, the agency attempted to expand its business to planets that had played a key role in the Galactic Civil War, but the new RX-series pilot droids were infamously-defective, and after several incidents (including one where a StarSpeeder was caught in the middle of a battle between New Republic and Imperial forces), Star Tours went out of business.
Most appearances of Star Tours before 2012 — including both versions of the titular attraction — fall within the Star Wars Legends continuity, and are not considered part of the official Star Warscanon. However, story elements of Star Tours, such as Captain Rex, the StarSpeeder 3000, and the company itself have been reintroduced into the current Star Wars canon by way of works like Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
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.[1] The StarSpeeder 1000 was usually operated by a crew of two: one AC-series pilot droid and one astromech droid.
StarSpeeder 3000[]
A StarSpeeder 3000 undergoing pre-flight checks at a Star Tours spaceport.
Towards the end of the Galactic Civil War, Star Tours operated the StarSpeeder 3000, an updated or upgraded version of the 1000 model. Essentially, the StarSpeeder 3000 could only be told apart from the 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. Similar to its predecessor, the StarSpeeder 3000 was operated by a crew of two: one RX-series pilot droid and one astromech droid.
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 of 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 a third Imperial Death Star battle station (in truth, this apparent Death Star III was actually an incomplete worldcraft that had been modified to resemble a Death Star, but it lacked a functioning superlaser; it was part of a plan by an Imperial splinter faction, known as the Kaarenth Dissention, to steal ships from New Republic shipyards while they were distracted; the plans used to construct the station were based on those of the first station, and thus had the same thermal exhaust port vulnerability). 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 battle station. The X-wing fighters and StarSpeeder immediately jumped to lightspeed as the Death Star disintegrated in a fiery explosion. Flight 45 did make its way back to the spaceport, but came out of lightspeed too fast, narrowly missing a fuel truck in the spaceport before landing safely.
Destinations[]
Star Tours offered flights to the following destinations throughout its history:
Star Tours advertisement for the planet Glee Anselm, the Nautolan homeworld
