Excited yet? You should be, because we've just had the world's first play - and we've only just come back down to Earth. Well, this autumn, Jump To Lightspeed is set to become the first official expansion for Star Wars Galaxies, featuring real-time online space combat in more than 15 ships for a minimum of 80 players.
How can you totally immerse yourself in George Lucas's universe when you're living in the Cantina and just looking at the stars? Having A Star Wars MMOG without the ability to engage in space combat was always going to feel as half-finished as the Death Star from Return Of The Jedi.