title: Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary - The Ultimate Guide to Characters and Creatures from the Entire Star Wars Saga
author:  David West Reynolds 
description: "For SW fanboys, The Complete Visual Dictionary is a little slice of heaven. Highly recommended." -- <i>Library Journal</i>
zlib_text: # ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  Thanks go to:
  
  
  Steven S. Long, Beth Loubet, Bob Quinlan, Luray Richmond, and Sean Summers, my
  “Eagle-Eyes,” who valiantly hurl themselves between me and the incoming
  artillery of my errors;
  
  
  All the _Star Wars_ fiction authors from whose work I have been able to draw
  details, most especially Michael A. Stackpole and Timothy Zahn;
  
  
  Drew Campbell, Shane Johnson, Paul Murphy, Peter Schweighofer, Bill Slavicsek,
  Bill Smith, Curtis Smith, and Dan Wallace, for the invaluable resources they
  have written;
  
  
  Sue Rostoni and Lucy Wilson of Lucas Licensing, for their help; and
  
  
  Denis Loubet, Mark and Luray Richmond, my roommates, for keeping me in
  realspace whenever my brain threatened to make the jump to hyperspace.
  
  
  # 1
  
  
  He made no pretense at being fully human. He had probably been born human, but
  now mechanical limbs—obvious prosthetics with no skinlike cover concealing
  their artificial nature—replaced his right arm and both legs, and the upper-
  right portion of his 