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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, also styled Episode VII – The Force Awakens, is a 2015 space-opera film directed by J.J. Abrams and the first Star Wars sequel-trilogy film.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a 2008 LucasArts action-adventure game starring Starkiller, Darth Vader's secret apprentice, set between Episodes III and IV; it used DMM, euphoria, and Havok physics and sold over 7 million units.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (2010) is a LucasArts action game starring Starkiller, Vader's clone apprentice, with dual lightsabers and Mind Trick powers. Released Oct 26, 2010 on DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii, X360; Metacritic 61, criticized for a five-hour campaign.
Star Wars: The High Republic
Star Wars: The High Republic, originally Project Luminous, is Lucasfilm's multimedia publishing initiative set about 200 years before The Phantom Menace, launched January 2021 with Light of the Jedi, told in three phases against the Nihil, Drengir, and Nameless.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, also marketed as Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, is a 2017 American space-opera film directed by Rian Johnson.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set thousands of years before the Star Wars films, launched by BioWare in 2011.
Star Wars: The Old Republic (novel series)
Star Wars: The Old Republic novel series, Del Rey tie-in fiction for BioWare's MMORPG: Fatal Alliance (Sean Williams, 2010), Deceived (Paul S. Kemp, 2011), Revan and Annihilation (Drew Karpyshyn, 2011-2012), now under the Legends banner.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a 2019 American science fiction film, the ninth and final episode of the Skywalker saga, directed by J.J. Abrams.
Star Wars: Thrawn
Star Wars: Thrawn is Timothy Zahn's 2017 Del Rey canon novel telling Grand Admiral Thrawn's Imperial origin story, reintroducing the Legends character to canon, with sequels Alliances and Treason and a 2018 Marvel comic adaptation.
Star Wars: Unlimited
Star Wars: Unlimited (SWU) is a Star Wars trading card game by Fantasy Flight Games and Asmodee, launched March 2024 with Spark of Rebellion. One action per turn, leader and base cards, ground and space arenas, Premier, Draft, Sealed, Twin Suns formats.
Star Wars: Visions (スター・ウォーズ：ビジョンズ)
Star Wars: Visions (スター・ウォーズ：ビジョンズ) is a Lucasfilm Disney+ anthology of animated shorts by studios worldwide, non-canonical, three volumes (2021, 2023, 2025), with The Ninth Jedi spinoff due 2026.
Star Wars: Visions Presents
Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi is an 8-episode limited anime series, the first under the Visions Presents spinoff branding, continuing Lah Kara's story from the Visions shorts; released August 5, 2026 on Disney+ and Hulu, made by Lucasfilm and Production I.G.
Star Weekly
Star Weekly (明星周刊) was an Indonesian weekly magazine published in Jakarta from 1946 to 1961, aimed first at peranakan Chinese readers, then at a general Indonesian audience.
Star-Club
The Star-Club was a rock music club at Große Freiheit 39 in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, opened in 1962, famous for the Beatles' 1962 residencies and closed in 1969.
Star-crossed
Star-crossed: literary adjective coined by Shakespeare in the Romeo and Juliet prologue for "a pair of star-cross'd lovers," meaning thwarted by the stars or fate; originally astrological, now often softened to mean merely destined or unlucky.
Star-Crossed (TV series)
Star-Crossed is a 2014 American CW teen sci-fi drama about Atrian aliens integrating into a Louisiana high school, starring Aimee Teegarden and Matt Lanter; 13 episodes, cancelled May 2014.
Star-forming main sequence
The star-forming main sequence (SFMS) is the tight empirical relation between star formation rate and stellar mass of star-forming galaxies, identified in 2007 and named by Noeske et al.
Star-free language
A star-free language, also called a regular non-counting language, is a regular language definable by a regular expression with Boolean operations and concatenation but no Kleene star.
Star-free languages and first-order logic on words
Star-free languages are the regular languages definable by regular expressions using union, concatenation, and complement but no Kleene star, characterized equivalently by aperiodic monoids and by first-order logic on words.
Star-Lord
Star-Lord (Peter Jason Quill) is a Marvel Comics superhero, leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy; created by Steve Englehart and Steve Gan, debuting in Marvel Preview #4 (January 1976), son of J'son of Spartax, wielder of the Element Gun, and played by Chris Pratt in the MCU.
Star-nosed mole
Star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata), semiaquatic North American mole with 22 nasal rays bearing ~25,000 Eimer's organs; fastest mammalian forager at 120 ms prey handling, tactile fovea, and underwater bubble sniffing.
Star-Spangled Banner (flag)
The Star-Spangled Banner is the 30-by-42-foot, 15-star, 15-stripe garrison flag Mary Pickersgill sewed for Fort McHenry in 1813, raised September 14, 1814, inspiring Key's poem, now at the Smithsonian NMAH.
Star, tree and hypertree network topologies
Star, tree, and hypertree topologies arrange network links in a hierarchy: stars connect devices to one central node, trees connect star groups, and hypertrees add cross-links.
Star!
Star! is a 1968 American musical biography film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews as Gertrude Lawrence, one of the era's most expensive box-office failures.
Stara Zagora (Стара Загора)
Stara Zagora (Стара Загора), also Augusta Trayana, Beroe, Vereya, Boruy, is a city in south-central Bulgaria, provincial capital, settled since the 7th millennium BC, razed in 1877 and rebuilt on a grid plan.
Stara Zagora Zoo
Stara Zagora Zoo (Зоопарк Стара Загора), Bulgaria's second zoo, founded 1957 in Ayazmoto Park; 70 decares, 400+ animals of ~80 species, CITES rescue center since 2014, renovated 2022.
Starachowice
Starachowice (formerly Wierzbnik), town in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, on the Kamienna river; founded 1624, 19th-century blast furnace works, STAR truck production, Jewish cemetery of 1891 with about 400 matzevot.
Starbase
Starbase is a city in Cameron County, Texas, at the southern tip of the state near the Mexico border, incorporated in May 2025 around SpaceX's Boca Chica launch site.
Starboard Value LP
Starboard Value LP is a New York-based activist investment firm founded by Jeffrey Smith in 2011 after spinning out of Ramius, known for campaigns at Darden Restaurants, Yahoo, and Salesforce.
Starbound
Starbound is a 2D space sandbox adventure game by Chucklefish, released 22 July 2016 on PC, Mac, and Linux after a December 2013 Steam Early Access launch that sold over two million copies; known for 7 playable races, procedural planets, and extensive modding.