On November 30th, the official Star Wars Galaxies site turned two years old. In celebration of this, we released two new desktop wallpapers; one Rebel and one Imperial.

Behind the scenes, November was another busy month for us. The game was flooded with new systems including Bounty Hunting, advanced crafting and structure placement. Most of these have already been hit hard by our internal testers. Our external beta testers have had a rough month as well as they have suffered through our dreaded multiserver tests. In these, we have basically been pushing the servers as hard as we can to create crashes and slow downs. We carefully pick apart the information we get from the tests so we can ensure a stable launch of the game. I consider it our "growing pains". So far the testers haven't complained too much about it, though I have a suspicion they are getting tired of Tatooine and can't wait to explore other planets. In December, we'll probably give them their first taste of Naboo. Eventually they will test several of our release planets, however we do intent to keep a couple in internal test only so there are new areas to explore when the game launches.

I wouldn't expect to hear too much from us in December. In addition to a little thing we call the Holidays (yes, we will have a few days off :)), we've got a fairly substantial internal milestone. You should be hearing a lot more about the game by January.

~Kevin “Q-3PO” O’Hara
Community Relations Manager