Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (video game) Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (video game) Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is a 1999 action-adventure video game released by LucasArts. It is based on the . The plot closely follows that of the film, although it expands on some minor events that could have been silenced or cut from the film, or shows them from a different character's point of view. For example, it follows Queen Amidala and Captain Panaka's adventure on Coruscant during Anakin Skywalker's interview in the Jedi Temple - something that is never shown or mentioned in the film since
The Science of Star Wars (book) The Science of Star Wars (book) The Science of Star Wars is a nonfiction popular science book written by former NASA astrophysicist Jeanne Cavelos first published on April 15, 1999 by St. Martin's Press. The book uses fictional characters, worlds, and technology from the "Star Wars" universe as starting points for discussion of factual concepts in cosmology, biology, and technology, and discusses in a "semi-serious" fashion the scientific probability of such fictional elements. "It takes the fantastic elements of the movies—like faster-than-light travel—and examines the current state of science to see if they're possible". Chapter 1: Planetary Environments covers topics