
IMO, I would assume much sparser populations, to make things manageable.

Star Wars has often suffered from disparities of scale and other continuity issues, which the fans do their best to reconcile.

Note that all of these figures are extrapolated from the Essential Atlas, Star Wars RPG and earlier atlases, none of which are now considered "canon" within the new Disney/Lucasfilm regime Although this figure sounds dramatic, it actually equates to less than. The WEG portrayal of the Empire as having dramatically stepped upĪccording the the various EU novels that follow on from Empire Strikes Back, the Vuuzhan Vong invasion is supposed to have killed around 365 trillion sentients. Used in the Atlas chapter were arrived at by postulating that theĮmpire reclaimed much of the lost Republic territory and incorporating Has swollen to include worlds as far coreward as Gyndine. But that's during a time in which RepublicĪuthorities has broken down in much of the Outer Rim and Hutt Space Independent Systems 1/10 of that number - which would be 1.32 million Republic has 1.2 million member worlds and the Confederacy of Systems." Shatterpoint is similarly specific, stating that the Nearly 100 quadrillionīeings pledged allegiance to the Republic in nearly 50 million Republic included "over a million member worlds, and countless moreĬolonies, protectorates and governorships. Star Wars Roleplaying Book from West End Games is the most-specific Instance, the New Essential Guide to Alien Species. Stars became the baseline in the years before the Atlas - see, for A galaxy 100,000 light years across containing 400 billion

Wandered a bit too much over the years for the Atlas's take to satisfyĮverybody. Speaking of numbers, the basic numbers for the Star Wars galaxy have According to the endnotes for the Star Wars : The Essential Atlas guide, the population of known space is approximately 100 quadrillion sentients, a figure they seem to have reached by factoring in around 50 million populated worlds, each with an average of two billion inhabitants as well as a few mega-populated worlds like Coruscant (1 trillion) and Geonosis (100 billion).Īssuming known space represents 25% of the galaxy, we can reasonably extrapolate the total figure for Galactic population to be in the region of 400 quadrillion, give or take.
