- "With success has come detractors. Both the Biological Athletes Union and the Committee Against Non-Sentient Abuse have been protesting matches. These social objections have failed to gain traction with the public, however."
- ―HoloNet News report
The Biological Athletes Union was an organization active[2] by 22 BBY.[1] After the growth in popularity experienced by the Nuna-Ball League's matches of nuna-ball, a sport that involved teams of droids using a nuna creature as a ball and therefore required little sentient involvement other than that of repair technicians, the Biological Athletes Union, along with the Committee Against Non-Sentient Abuse, protested against the matches. Their objections, however, did not gain traction with the public, which was noted on the date 13:4:4 in an issue of the CoCo District Edition of the HoloNet News.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
The Biological Athletes Union was first mentioned in HoloNet News Vol. 531 #50, an in-universe issue of the HoloNet News[2] written by Pablo Hidalgo and Paul Ens[3] and published on the HoloNet News website on April 4, 2002.[4]
Appearances[]
Nuna-Ball League Looks to Expand — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #50 (content now obsolete; backup link) (First mentioned)
Sources[]
Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Sports in the Star Wars Galaxy, Part 2 on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nuna-Ball League Looks to Expand — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #50 (content now obsolete; backup link), which mentions the Biological Athletes Union, is set on the date "13:4:4," which corresponds to 22 BBY per the reasoning here.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Nuna-Ball League Looks to Expand — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #50 (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Credits — HoloNet News Vol. 531 (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ The Official HoloNetNews Discussion Thread on the Jedi Council Forums (Literature board; posted by Mavrick889 on April 4, 2002 at 3:16 PM; accessed September 20, 2020) (backup link)