It's an incredible achievement. The movie that made everything we have today all possible, is 30 years old. Happy Birthday Star Wars! Check your local press for special screenings of Star Wars, and not forgetting the Celebrations. The Official site has under gone a front page make over as well.

It's Friday! And for some of you, the long weekend starts here. Either enjoying the sunshine (if you can find some), or hard at with the new Beast Master expertise system.

This week has seen Chapter 6 finally go live with a quick hot fix shortly after and, not forgetting the celebrations kicked off over at Nyms Stronghold. How many paintings do you have yet? To help you keep that friday feeling going, SWGalaxies.net has added some new content to the site.

Firstly, we continue the 'Looking Back' series as we go to E3 2002 when the media and masses getting a first look and trailer of the game and it does look incredible. Some of the shine has been taken away as we are all playing the game now, but back then, it really did make everyones jaw drop!

Also, we have a new weekly column by Super Furry from the Infinity server, who is a Rodian who rants...perfect name for it! Alot of humour as he explores some of the changes and rants about the kuat ship parts! The Player Spotlight has now been updated and we are looking to update it every Friday. (It could you be).

It's also your last chance to enter our fantastic competition with signed copies of the Complete Adventures AND 60 day time cards up for grabs! Have a fantastic weekend!!

On Thursday, May 24th at 4:00 AM PDT all U.S. and European galaxies will be taken down for server maintenance and a live update.

When the update is complete, all galaxies will be live but unavailable while we complete final testing. All galaxies will be made available after that time.

4:00 AM PDT (Los Angeles) / 6:00 AM CDT (Austin) / 7:00 AM EDT (New York)
12:00 PM GMT (London) / 1:00 PM CET (Berlin) / 8:00 PM (Tokyo)
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Beast Master:

Fixed companion control devices that looked like cameras from not stuffing
Fixed stuffed companions not retaining their colors
Enzymes are no longer double plural spellings
Name of egg creator is now displayed on egg, beast companion device, and beast for all new beasts
Removed all stats from displaying on old Bio-Engineer deeds
Fixed bug with loot icon not showing when a dead creature only has isomerase enzymes on it
All old Bio-Engineer DNA samples and DNA templates have been renamed to avoid confusion with the new system; Bio-Engineer creature deeds have not changed

Mission Terminal:
Destruction missions from Mission Terminals are now capped at level 90

Combat:
Corrected an issue with 100% chance to proc abilities not functioning correctly

Tutorial:
You can no longer use the slash command /hyperspace to leave the tutorial prematurely (doing so bugged your character)

Camps:
Camp cloning centers will not register within a PvP region

It's arrived! Chapter 6 hit the servers on Tuesday and so far, alot of people are enjoying the new features. Traders are stocking up on components for the new Beast Master expertise skills whilst others are jetting across the galaxy to Lok, to enjoy the first of many celebration events. Don't forget, you must login this week to claim your rewards.

Has chapter 6 impressed you? Or maybe you have different views on the changes made. Join in the forum debate and tell us your thoughts.

Chapter 6: “Masters of the Wild” Publish Notes 05-22-07

The most anticipated chapter goes live today. Chapter 6 is probably the biggest update to the game since NGE hit way back in November 2005. With the addition of the new Beast Master expertise tree and the new Story Teller feature plus improvements made to the Rebel Themepark and professions - never before has such a chapter delivered so much to the game.

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The party has been delayed!!! Imperial Stormtroopers have seized spices found at a secret location on Lok. Reports are coming in that Spices totally just 30 credits worth were taken earlier today.

Whilst the Empire conducts an extensive search, the planned party at Nyms will now go ahead on Wednesday 23rd of May after the Chapter 6 update on Tuesday. Whats the party about? Well, you will have to check THIS news story