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Last summer Sony Online and LucasArts unveiled the Star Wars Galaxies Online Trading Card game as an extra for current and former subscribers to their Star Wars Galaxies MMO. Today the companies announced the first major expansion to the trading card game, Squadrons over Corellia. The expansion, due out in December, adds over 250 new cards and 22 new loot cards to the game.

The expansion adds starship cards for the first time along with two new species and new character cards including Han Solo himself alongside Jabba the Hut, Emperor Palpatine and others. Current subscribers to Star Wars Galaxies will get five free booster card packs each month.

Last month we first reported on plans by Sony Online to launch an online collectible trading card game based on their long running MMO Star Wars Galaxies. This week the game has officially launched. This is not quite a stand alone game like the Everquest based Legends of Norrath; you must be an active subscriber to the Star Wars Galaxies MMO or a former player in good standing (i.e. you don't owe Sony Online money) to play the trading card game.

The official title for the game is Star Wars Galaxies: Champions of the Force and there are over 250 cards to collect and current and former subscribers will get access to five Booster Packs for free every month. There's a 14 day free trial to the game that you can download at the title's official web site.
[Via Massively]