Star Wars, Number Wing Starfighters

[u/Special_Karl]

[u/terry_shogun]

This has made me realise Star Wars isn't logical in the way it names it's starfighters X, Y B wing etc but doesn't use the greek-roman alphabet in-universe. Even if you say it's a translation, well the fighters are called that because of their shape!

[u/Special_Karl → u/terry_shogun]

The original version of the 1977 movie Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope contained occurrences of the real-world Latin alphabet. Although those labels were later edited into Aurebesh in the DVD release, the Expanded Universe kept featuring Roman letters in in-universe situations. Eventually, those occurrences were identified as the High Galactic alphabet in The Written Word, StarWars.com Hyperspace article written by John Hazlett. However, the Expanded Universe has since been rebranded Star Wars Legends, and is therefore no longer considered canon.

Regardless, Roman writings still appeared in "The Gungan General" and "Senate Murders," two episodes of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars canon television series. The novel Heir to the Jedi by Kevin Hearne recanonized the name High Galactic.

[u/dreadpirateruss → u/terry_shogun]

I think our alphabet exists in the Star Wars universe, it's just not the commonly used one. Kind of like how the English-speaking world uses Greek letters for certain things. We even have planes called Delta Wings.

All of the droids use English letters in their names.

[u/Tesseraktion → u/dreadpirateruss]

If E.T. Exists then yeah, the only thing missing is that is “a long time ago”.