Literature / Star Wars: Cult Encounters and Supernatural Encounters

A vision granted me by one who roamed the stars in the barren galaxy...

— Arhul Hextrophon

Cult Encounters: The Last Days of Arhul Hextrophon and Supernatural Encounters: The Trial and Transformation of Arhul Hextrophon are a duology of online Science Fantasy novellas written by Joseph Bongiorno, set in the Star Wars Legends continuity. They are notable for the sheer amount of time they spent in Development Hell, at nearly ten years; they were approved and then canceled several times, until Lucasfilm gave Bongiorno their blessing to release them on his own website following the 2014 Continuity Reboot. Cult Encounters was released on Christmas 2017, and Supernatural Encounters on the following Halloween. An extended edition of the latter was released in 2023.

The stories chronicle the adventures of New Republic historian Arhul "Hex" Hextrophon, who, with his trusty droid Q9-X7 by his side, traveling the Galaxy to decode ominous connections he has discovered between the Galaxy's ancient societies. The journey takes him to the darkest recesses of space and into encounters with its most ancient and nightmarish inhabitants, and if he can survive he may well come home with the secret history of the universe itself — from its creation to its ultimate fate. The story serves as a synthesis of details about the most ancient societies of the Galaxy from multiple sources, with a particular emphasis on the original Marvel comics from the 1980s, which repeatedly dropped hints that the Galaxy had endured a calamity vastly dwarfing the Galactic Civil War in its ancient past. Of particular note are a series of H. P. Lovecraft-inspired short comics by Alan Moore, written exclusively for the UK market, introducing baffling characters such as the amoral Bedlam Spirits Tilotny, Horliss-Horliss, Cold Danda Sine, and Splendid Ap, and the mysterious ethereal "demon" Wutzek.

It should be noted that while the stories were approved by Lucasfilm, the status of their canonicity was ambiguous for several years due to them having been released post-reboot on a website unaffiliated with the company. On his Facebook, Bongiorno listed their status as "approved but unlicensed."

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These novellas contain examples of:

• Alien Non-Interference Clause: The Celestials are not masters of their offspring, and cannot interfere with the free will of any sapient race (issued by decree of the Supreme Maker), they can only be merely guides.
• Ambiguously Gay: Hextrophon himself; he awkwardly dodges the question when asked why he never married, and later when he enters the afterlife, he recognizes a male soul he sees there as "one whom he'd loved."
• Ambitionis Evil: Tilotny's plans to be the only goddess to be needed, caused chaos and disorder in the galaxy, giving rise to abominations, which in turn incited thousands of wars, eventually leading to her own doom.
• Art Initiates Life: The life in the primary universe was created by the Supreme Maker using a primordial song named The Songs of the Eternal.
• Ascended Extra: Almost all the major characters, including Hextrophon himself and most of the supernatural beings he meets. The only ones that had significant roles prior to this story are the abomination Waru of the Old Ones, and the Celestials Elegast, Eipha, and Niphal, aka the Trinity of Mortis.
• Balance Between Good and Evil: Lluxos accepted the arrival of evil from Wutzek's offspring (thanks to a vision sent by the Father of Lights), but he also hoped that heroes would emerge to defend good when necessary.
• Big Bad: Each of the three Cosmic Wars has a particular character or characters who's causing most of the trouble:
  • Empyrean War: Tilotny and Cold Danda Sine
  • War of Temporal Planes: Typhojem
  • Twilight Wars: A Big Bad Ensemble of Tharragorogarraht, Ooradryl, and the Rakata.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Ku'ar Danar, aka Darth Dreadwar, from the Extended Edition. A human scholar who discovered Dark Side secrets essentially by accident, he manages to make an enormous impact on Galactic history by tutoring the rogue Jedi students who would one day be the first twelve Sith Lords, but every scheme he tries after that completely blows up in his face. His attempt to swallow his students' souls to become immortal backfires when they catch onto him, leaving him trapped in a Dark Side monolith for 2000 years; he then tries to trick Naga Sadow into freeing him, but Sadow correctly identifies him as a poser who likes the sound of his own voice a bit too much and sticks him right back in after learning what he needs from him. During the Galactic Civil War era he's freed yet again by the Zann Consortium and is all prepared for his grand comeback... which turns out to consist of getting yelled at by the Sorcerers of Rhand for believing the Force to be entirely scientific in nature and finally being permanently sealed in a gilded eyeball by Nil Spaar.
• Big Good: Wutzek, Elegast, and Horliss Horliss all take their turns in this role, though none of them ever quite get what makes mortals tick. The Maker is the Greater-Scope Paragon.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Bedlam Spirits run on this, and unfortunately Näkhäsh takes advantage of their lack of understanding of good and evil to push them down the slippery slope. Fortunately, Horliss Horliss doesn't take the bait and becomes a straight-up good guy, and Splendid Ap ends up coming around as well.
• Broad Strokes: The events of the cancelled novel Alien Exodus are mentioned, but with some differences from the original plot outline:
  • The Varlians are the Vulagool—an insectoid race, who had joined the Architects and would go on to become bitter enemies of the Killiks.
  • The Human Resistance are named the Sons of Freedom and there are two other groups apart; the Alliance and the United Confederatation of Zhell.
  • Humans escape from Urthha instead of the 25th century Earth.
  • The wormhole was opened by Tilotny.
  • Cold Danda Sine creating a disease on Forhilnor that infected the larvae of the Varlian, who came to become the Hutts, the Yahk-Tosh, the Quockrans, and the Orooturoo.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Tilotny and Cold Danda Sine (children of Wutzek) are the parents of Typhojem, Tharagorrogaraht, Ooradryl, and Mnggal-Mnggal.
• Butt-Monkey: The Rakata from Knights of the Old Republic come in for a lot of shade, with the story revealing that their empire was not nearly as large or illustrious as later generations would came, and that their very origins are from Old One experiments on Gungans.
• Canon Welding: Among various sci-fi franchises that were connected to Star Wars either directly or indirectly: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Battlestar Galactica, Willow, THX 1138, American Graffiti, Prometheus, Predator, Firefly, Alien, Alien Chronicles and The Seventh Tower are all referenced in some form.
• Cat Folk: Many from preexisting material, including the Cantrosians, Cathar, Felin, Felinians, Fras, Horansi, Moorjhoni, Schenor, Souma, Tinnell, Togorians, Trianii, Farghul, and Zygerrian are all mentioned by Q9 as having spawned from the Catuman.
• The Cameo: A very beloved character makes an appearance at the end: Yoda, now an angel.
• Cessation of Existence: This is strongly insinuated to be the fate of the souls of the truly evil in the afterlife, rather than any sort of Hell.
• Cthulhumanoid: Typhojem is an expy of Cthulhu and looks a lot like him. He was based on a Cthulhu-like idol called "Pomojema" described in Splinter of the Mind's Eye, which is now retroactively a statue of him.
• The Corrupter: Näkhäsh Father of Shadows, a renegade Celestial, tempted the children of Wutzek into evil and they in turn corrupted the inhabitants of the galaxy.
• Creating Life: Cold Danda Sine used science and magic, genetics and indoctrination to design and breed violent new races as the Hutts, the Yahk-Tosh, the Quockrans, the Orooturoo, the Ssi-Ruuk from the guileless P’w’ecks; the vampiric Anzati from an isolationist human colony on Anzat; the violent Vagaari from the innocent Geroons; the T’surr, the Dashade, the Zanibar, the Esh-Kha, the Ng’ok war beasts, the Kintan Strider, etc.
• Divine Conflict: Between the Celestials and the Architects, and more later between the Architects and the Old Ones.
• Divine Delegation: Maker > Celestials > Architects > Old Ones.
• Driven to Suicide: Tilotny, filled with shame and self-loathing after becoming the Soulworm, devours herself.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Though they aren't the chronologically last stories in the continuity, these novellas essentially serve as a belated coda to the Legends continuity, tying off many plot threads left dangling by the reboot and promising a Happily Ever Afterlife for the Galaxy's people, including droids.
• Earth Is the Center of the Universe: Or rather, the main Star Wars galaxy is the center of the Star Wars universe; turns out the Celestials started with the one galaxy and then created "outward." The real world is implied to be the center of the multiverse.
• Earth That Used to Be Better: Urthha started out quite well, but eventually became a Dystopia. Humans began to divide into different hostile nations, governments and corporations for evil men caused the collapse of ecology, most of the world fell into misery, overpopulation and contamination. Finally, vast computer systems had taken over most aspects of society, and drugs were regularly employed to keep the populace pacified by the ruling oligarchy who enslaved them and regarded them as numbers, going so far as to enact a law that forced serial numbers upon citizens, provoking resistance movements to escape the planet.
• Earth That Was: Arhul and Q9 travel into the dimension known as Otherspace, where they find a barren world that, according to Q9, once had a thriving and diverse ecosystem. It is Urthha or New Earth, the planet where humans were deposited to after arriving at the galaxy. Splendid Ap had spherically designed it as a replica of “Erset”, a place implied to be our Earth. The Extended Edition features several other replicas of the "real" Earth created by the Architects, whose respective histories are all Shout Outs to other popular science fiction sagas that either reference Star Wars or are referenced by it.
• Eldritch Abomination: The Old Ones and their sundry spawn are of the classic Lovecraftian mold; Typhojem even strongly resembles Cthulhu.
• Evil Plan: Tilotny's jealousy towards the Celestials, her selfish desire to be adored like them, led her to deceitfully manipulate the different species of the galaxy; to spreading discord and conflict between them; finally causing the Celestials to abandon their creations, because they rejected their teachings; with the sole purpose of that the universe bows before her and their siblings as gods.
• Expy: Näkhäsh has a lot in common with both Morgoth and Nyarlathotep, and thus by extent the Christian Satan as well.
• Fallen Angel: Näkhäsh is a Celestial who fell at the beginning of time, and much later Eipha falls as well due to the influence of his stepmother Abeloth, becoming the Son of Mortis.
• Fictional Earth: Urthha is an exact replica of the original planet Earth, but it has several changes in its history.
• Foreshadowing: Cult Encounters notes alternate nicknames for the mysterious deity Kopa Khan such as "Kol D’da Shan" or "Co Pana Cine", hinting at his true identity as Cold Danda Sine from Tilotny Throws A Shape.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Wutzek, seeing small intelligent beings succumb to evil, lies and violence, sought to create more perfect and angelic beings that could guide the next inhabitants. However, Aztek was filled with feelings of egotism, remoteness, impatience, and apathy, traits his sons inherited, bringing pain and war due to Wutzek pride.
• Good All Along: Wutzek, the "demon" from Moore's The Pandora Effect is in fact no such thing: he's a Celestial, one of the ultimate Big Goods of The 'Verse.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The Old Ones are this to many antagonistic beings and factions, including the Yevetha, the Rakata, the dark Endorian sorcerers from the Ewoks cartoon, and the very idea of worshiping the Dark Side itself — and Näkhäsh, Father of Shadows, is this in turn to the Old Ones.
• Hate Sink: Professor Janzikek, a near-literal Smug Snake (he's a Tiss'shar) and a Flat-Earth Atheist on the New Republic Historical Council. He takes great pleasure in trying to shoot down mystical explanations for Hex's experiences — and Q9 takes great pleasure in humiliating him in turn.
• Heel–Face Turn: Splendid Ap and Horliss-Horliss; (the first by Wutzek and the later for his own accord)
• Homeworld Evacuation:
  • When computer systems had taken over society from Urthha, a wide-scale resistance movement under the leadership of two main groups, the Alliance, and the United Confederatation of Zhell, escaped to Notron and Corellia by a Infinity Gate and a wormhole.
  • The Gungans escaped from Lehon when was took over by the Rakata, to Naboo, where they established underwater colonies.
• Horrible Judge of Character:
  • The Kwoth succumbed to Tilotny's fake charms, believing that mere knowledge could not be bad, costing them their once intimate friendship with the Gree, who remained ever loyal to the Celestials; and foolishly developed their Infinity Gates; failed to realize until it was too late how their portals might be used.
  • The Humans of Erets were also manipulated by Tilotny with promises of power, wealth, knowledge, and adventure, as many believed they’d been chosen by a benevolent alien, deity, or messianic Maitreya.
• Humans Are Bastards:
  • In Notron, humans (Zhells) harmed the ecosystem, renamed Coruscant, oppressed the Taungs, and when they attempted to limit their advance with diplomacy and commitment, they were accused of extremists, and the Taungs, by resorting to violence, were called monsters.
  • When human grave robbers attempted to steal from Alashan, only to be discovered, resentfully. To save face, they accused the Alashanians of being horrible monsters, who tried to murder them and who might at any moment come to destroy the human race. This became a paranoia, which Tilotny saw as a way to corrupt the minds and hearts of the galaxy.
• Humans Are Flawed: The Celestials warned to the firstborns, do not imitate the ways of the humans or fail to remember their danger, for although good exists in some, a curse lays upon them, and should not imitate their modes.
• Humans Through Alien Eyes: Tilotny's message, that humans roam about as gods, traversing the galaxy as if it is theirs, razing ancient civilizations to dust, and suffering no consequence for it; cause panic and paranoia in the hearts and minds of other species; concluding that humans were an evil force that brought calamity wherever they wanted them to go, fostering much hatred towards humanity on his day.
• Humanity Is Infectious: Although the Celestials tried to warn the firstborn not to imitate the customs of humans, over time the debased ways of human culture would infest the inhabitants of the galaxy, who as they became more entangled with them over the years, forgot the warnings of the Celestials and embraced the ways of this provocative new people.
• Human Subspecies: The Arkanian, Chiss, Zeltron, Mirialan, Firrerreo, Teevan, Ubese, Vultan, Lorrdian, Dantari, Ogemite, Ghostling, Sylphe, Umbaran, Pantoran, Ovoni, and numerous others near-human races, are due to some human branches changed physically over time as they adapted to new environments, others propagated with compatible humanoids, so that superficial, but unique genetic differences arose.
• I Have Many Names:
  • In the ancient tongues, the Celestials were known as the Fāta, the Tün-dérek, the Malak, the Bene-Elyon, the Ággelos, Those Who Dwell Beyond the Veil.
  • Abeloth has alternate names under which she was worshiped by different cultures; as Onrai, Vahl, Lady with the Locust Heart, Scorekeeper, Dancing Goddess, Vain Goddess.
  • Kopa Khan, first mentioned in the Jefferson Starship song "Light the Sky on Fire" from the Star Wars Holiday Special turns out to be another name for Cold Danda Sine. This is first hinted at in Cult Encounters, then outright confirmed by Supernatural Encounters.
  • Ooradryl is another name for Waru from The Crystal Star.
  • Geonosis was known as Geognôsis before the catastrophe.
• Karma Houdini: Mnggal-Mnggal, who had been established as surviving to the Galaxy's present in the RPG.
• Meaningful Name: In the Celestial tongue, the names of the Bedlam Spirits have different meanings:
  • Tilotny: Speech, art, and pride.
  • Horliss-Horliss: One who is outside, timeless, emancipating.
  • Cold Danda Sine: Dynamism and change.
  • Splendid Ap: The diagnostic principles of time, motion, and space.
  • The son of Cold Danda Sine have different names:
    • Nobbliya: Accursed spawn, but also noble in ancient language.
    • Aerimus: Cradle of Life.
  • The word Gree itself means “People of Goodwill.”
• Meaningful Rename: The Kwoth, dismayed to see its Infinity Gates being used as weapon for conquests, in shame renamed themselves the Kwa (“Those who Merit Punishment.”).
• Mechanical Abomination: The Abominor, created by Ap at Danda's request as self-replicating droid constructs into which Cold Danda Sine summoned forth dark entities to inhabit.
• Mirror Universe: A young Splendid Ap, not yet in control of his powers over time and space, accidentally creates one at one point, described as an inferior copy of the original — often interpreted as a sly dig at the post-reboot continuity, which Bongiorno dislikes.
• Monster Progenitor: El'Shuddem, who is Tilotny transformed by Wutzek, created a wormhole where beings were born as barracles, glooths, schingas, Nharqis'Al, hulgren, wandrella, k'lor'slugs, spice eels, squollyhawlks, exogorths, Leviathans, kdaks, and silans.
• Morality Chain: The Bedlam Spirits are among each other, since if one of them is absent, they will be out of balance, and instead of embody love, justice, power, and wisdom, they will become egotism, remoteness, impatience, and apathy.
• The Multiverse: Among the stories' bigger reveals is the first explicit confirmation that Star Wars is a multiverse — and the Legends continuity is not the original universe. What is? Heavily implied to be our own.
• My God, What Have I Done??: Wutzek felt a terrible pang of remorse after creating his children, because being born of his negative emotions would bring darkness to their universe.
• Named After Somebody Famous: The United Confederatation of Zhell is named after the general who united the thirteen formerly divided nations on Urthha.
• Named by the Adaptation:
  • The names of Force wielder are revealed as Elegast (Father), Eipha (Son), and Niphal (Daughter).
  • The native population of the "Keeper's World" seen in the 1977 Pizzazz comic are revealed to be called Osserians, and their planet is named Osseria.
  • The real name of the Night Spirit from the Ewoks cartoon is Tharagorrogaraht.
  • The original name for the forest moon of Endor is revealed to be Tana.
  • The name of the warship used by the Five in The Pandora Effect is Nil-Apharas (the Pale Slayer).
  • The flying flowers from the Ewoks cartoon are called Lamicae.
• Naming Your Colony World: The planets from Corellia's system; Tralus and Talus, were named after the twin commanders of the Thirteenth Battalion of Zhell, who died fighting against Mhu'anThul.
• Narcissist: Tilotny is vain (inherited from her father Wutzek), she assumed that she was the first form and that she had created time, refusing to believe that physical forms could have existed before she had become one.
• Offing the Offspring: When Wutzek discovered that his children had inherited his worst traits he sought to destroy them, but his children learned of his intentions and fled from him. The same thing happened with Tilotny when it was discovered that she spawned monsters.
• One Bad Mother: Tilotny is the mother of many abominations, and sets herself up as a benevolent Mother Goddess to deceive the Galaxy.
• Our Angels Are Different: The Celestials have a role similar to Judeo-Christian angels but they don't look much like them, being conglomerations of incandescent spheres.
• The Paragon: Elegast, aka the Father of Mortis — the strongest of the Celestials and maintainer of the Balance of the Force.
• Physical God: The Celestials and therefore, the Architects together with the Old Ones, have the power to alter reality, disintegrate beings, move star systems, create life and planets, etc.
• Precursors: The first species born in Skyriver, known as the Firstborn, number 80 in total, but only 37 of them are named. They are the Duinuogwuin, the Kwoth, the Gree, the Diathim, the Sharu, the Mu-Ab, the Cthol, the Alashan, the Ahra Naffi, the Kalai, the Killiks, the Tempestro, the Neti, the Lucent, the Aing-Tii, the Sunesi, the Sephi, the Oswaft, the Catuman, the Shola, the Pelgrin, the Volgax, the Pa Tho, the Asmeru, the Jerrilek, the Xaxax, the Eellayin, the Kooroo, the Osserians, the Krevaaki, the Caamasi, the Siniteen, the Ithorian, the Hysalrian, the Dur Sabon, the Celegians, and the Whills.
• Pretext for War: To remove the Taung from Coruscant, President Anaxes, taking advantage of the Taungs' attack on the Royal Chambers of Zhell, secretly assassinated several 13th Battalion military leaders, blaming the Taungs and getting humans to declare war on them.
• Random Species Offspring: The Duinuogwuin mating with the Basiliskans; resulting in multiples species as the Krayt, Kell, Chiaki Dragonsnake, Mythosaur, Mantigrue, Condor, Spine, Menagerie, Ubese Thorn-Backs, Howlers, Kadri'Ra, Sea-dragons, Panna and the Arkanian dragons.
• Re-Cut: Author Joe Bongiorno is planning an extended version of Supernatural Encounters that’s currently around 90,000+ additional words long, and still growing. It will be released in PDF form along with specially commissioned artwork by Chris Cold.
• Redemption Rejection: Wutzek tried to ask Tilotny to help him undo the evil she brought to the galaxy, but having lost the ability to be pious and kind, she rejected him.
• Retcon: A fair few:
  • The Yuuzhan Vong's home galaxy is actually one of the main Galaxy's companions, not another full-size galaxy. They're stated to be mutated descendants of ancient human colonists from the main galaxy, which has been implied in other sources before.
  • Hextrophon speculates that historical dates that place the galaxy's ancient civilizations at hundreds of thousands to millions of years old may be inaccurately early, arguing that it's implausible records from that far back could survive to the present at all.
  • The strange happenings in the Ewoks comics and cartoon are given fixes that make them fit better with established lore.
  • Onrai and Vahl, two preexisting deities,^note Onrai's statue was seen in issue #84 of Marvel's original Star Wars run, and Vahl had been mentioned in an RPG campaign guide for the Legacy era are both revealed to be Abeloth, worshipped by different cultures under different names.
  • Typhojem is responsible, for having caused the catastrophe on Geonosis, ia battle, he secretly instructing his followers that redirect a comet out of its trajectory to collide with the planet’s largest moon. The cataclysmic fallout wiped out huge numbers on both sides, leaving the world arid and burnt.
• Robot Buddy: Q9 to Hextrophon, though he doesn't actually belong to him; he serves the supercomputer Mistress Mnemos as a mobile counterpart to her.
• Satanic Archetype: Näkhäsh, Father of Shadows who is apparently a celestial who became corrupt; becoming the originator of the evil of the primary universe.
• Shout-Out:
  • Among the alien species name-checked as being powers in the ancient galaxy are the E'Yautja, a race of arrogant hunters, and the Sobekk, an imperialistic reptilian people. The latter end up losing their empire to the Yuuzhan Vong and degenerate into their Servant Race, the Chazrach.
  • The goddesses Ililot and Ojhal, and the pot-bellied Yululun are mentioned. These names are not from any Star Wars source, but can be found in the polytheistic religion of Zothique, a fictional future continent in a collection of stories by Clark Ashton Smith.
  • Q9 and Arhul find a barren world with structures similar to a all-human planet once visited by Z’rek, an Asogian Force-sensitive that was part of a extra-galactic expedition.
  • The Malak, who claim to be the engineers of the human race, are described as having been destroyed by their own creation: An aggressive, endoparasitoid species with a protective exoskeleton that a human replica model would later reengineer.
  • There are references to The Bible, where many of the names of the primary universe have Hebrew meanings:
    • Kərubîm (cherubs), Ōphannīm (ophanims), Śərāfîm (seraphs), and Mal’ākim (angels) are celestial beings from Hebrew scripture.
    • The Supreme Maker refers to God.
    • Erets which means "Earth", the original planet of the humans; and Näkhäsh meaning serpent, the biblical serpent from the Book of Genesis.
    • Typhojem referes to his mother Tilotny, in his own blasphemous tongue as ‘the great whore’, referencing the Whore of Babylon from the Book of Revelation.
  • Plenty of the story directly references the Cthulhu Mythos:
    • The description of Typhojem: a tentacled grotesquery with a pulpy head, like a monstrous squid from the occluded deeps, but with membranous wings that drew forth from the dripping, bloated sack that was its body, is a reference to Cthulhu.
    • The octopus-like J’feh from "Dark Lord's Conscience", actually named the Ghathonothoa, who not only worshipped Typhojem but were named after the Ghatanothoa in the Lovecraft short story "Out of the Aeons".
    • Expies of the Elder Things and the Mi-Go show up in the Extended Edition, and are mentioned to have warred with the J'feh.
  • A planet called Lundinium is mentioned as among the places humans have mysteriously appeared on. This is a reference to Londinium, the capital planet in Firefly.
  • The Celestials’ attempts to guide to the Humans to true peace and friendship were successful, such as with the Daikini clan who came to Andowyne in the Kathol Rift.
  • Urthha's computer-dominated society, and the use of drugs to pacify the population, is the same plot that appears in the movie THX 1138.
  • In an excerpt from the Extended Edition posted on Facebook the Snow King's guards from the Ewoks cartoon episode "The Season Scepter", previously known as Iceheads, are revealed to be named the "Wynken". This is a reference to the Winkie guards from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, likely due to the episode's extensive references to the story and its iconic film version.
  • The Tromes are gnome-like creatures from the Ewoks cartoon, whose appearance is said to be a tribute to "Trobbits" and their Sagar tree. Cindel Towani also mentions having visited a planet named Sagar. Both of these are nods to the Filmation cartoon Blackstar.
  • A species resembling sapient ducks appears in the Extended Edition. One of them named Ward helped an all-human planet fight off an Old One invasion, and they're mentioned as having also produced beloved children's entertainment, including the stories of the adventures of a cantankerous billionaire and his family and a space explorer who traveled with an eager young Ugnaught.
  • An early human space explorer was a certain Captain Reinhardt, who went mad after getting his ship stuck in the pull of a black hole with only robots for company.
• Take That!:
  • At one point Splendid Ap accidentally creates a parallel universe that's implied to be the post-2014 canon, which is described as a "pale and broken imitation of a far greater thing".
  • A much sneakier one: the flagship of the forces of the monstrous demon lord Typhojem is called the Nil-Apharas. Seems to just be a Lovecraft-esque scary nonsense word, but spell it backwards, and you get the name of exceedingly controversial US politician Sarah Palin.
• Time Abyss: Most of the major characters are at least tens of millennia old, with the Celestials taking the prize as being older than the Galaxy itself, making them billions of years old.
• The Time of Myths: The main history of the book.The creation of the universe, the first species, the coming of the humans, the origin of evil.
• Top God: Among the story's bigger revelations is that "the Maker", the vague deity frequently invoked by C-3PO in the films, is the Star Wars universe's supreme being and master of the Celestials — building off ideas in George Lucas' own notes.
• Transplanted Humans: Tilotny and Splendid Ap bring the Humans from the Prime Universe to theirs.
• True-Breeding Hybrid: The Rakatas were created from Gungans mixed with Ongree using the Dark side.
• Truly Single Parent: Wutzek created by himself to Tilotny, Horliss-Horliss, Cold Danda Sine, and Splendid Ap; and consequently Cold Danda Sine created to Nobbyla and Tilotny created Abeloth upon her death on her own.
• Tuckerization:
  • In Cult Encounters the real name of Rur from the Alan Moore comic story "Blind Fury!" is revealed to be Carel Kapekos. This is a reference to the name of Karel Čapek, the author of the play R.U.R., which Rur the character was (presumably) named after.
  • Hausen Graf-Well is a historian in Supernatural Encounters who proposes an analysis of Arhul's book which suggests that it was written by multiple authors. He's named for Julius Wellhausen and Karl Heinrich Graf, two key players in the development of the documentary hypothesis for the Old Testament in The Bible.
  • As part of a fundraiser for both a physical release and illustrations for an extended edition of Supernatural Encounters, Joe has offered as a reward for higher-tier backers to tuckerize their name somewhere in the story.
• Violence is the Only Option: When the Thirteen Battallions declare war on the Taung, destroying their homes and holy places. The Taung abandon their peaceful ways and become warriors, concluding that violence would be the only means of recovering their home from the pestilential and abundant humans.
• Was Once a Man: The Yuuzhan Vong were born in the Cremlevien War, where the inhabitants were contaminated by the effects of violent conflict and killed Aerimus; and so grievous was the sin of his people, that the midichlorians fled from their murderous hosts, and were stripped of the Force.

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In his lair at Aznak dead Typhojem waits dreaming...