Grav-ball

Grav-ball was a popular sport throughout the galaxy. The sport was often played on the planet Lothal and was big at the Junior Academy of Applied Sciences, which hosted a team called the AppSci SaberCats. During his time at this academy, Zare Leonis was selected as center striker for the team, with his girlfriend Merei Spanjaf playing as the kicker.

In some versions of the sport, hover boots were worn while playing, but these were not used under Corellian rules or on the planet Lothal. Grav-ball and broadcasts of the sport became little more than a recruitment tool for the Galactic Empire during its reign, with players such as the popular keeper Edi Myrtaan turned into instruments of Imperial propaganda. In the time of the Resistance and the First Order, collecting grav-ball badges was a popular pastime among youths. The athlete Cutar Har was a grav-ball champion who was believed to be killed in the Turclom Riots.

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