Star Wars: Galactic Racer centers on a small confirmed cast within The Galactic League. The story is built around the rivalry between the protagonist and the reigning champion, but several other figures support, oppose, or simply share the grid with them. The roster below covers the characters confirmed so far. The game references many other pilots competing for the top spot, but they have not been named, so they are left out here rather than invented.
Official material describes the League as being made up of top racing pilots from across the Star Wars galaxy, a field that runs from enthusiastic youngsters to veterans with egos as big as their speeders. Those pilots fill out the grid in every race, and only the characters below have actually been identified.
Confirmed roster
Character | Role | Species / Notes | Affiliation | Voice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Playable protagonist; a lone racer chasing revenge and glory | Human; a cargo pilot who grew up on Gathleon under the Bool Conglomerate, and holds a personal grudge against the Bool family | Recruited by Darius Pax to challenge the champion | Not announced | |
Antagonist; reigning Galactic League Champion | A Caskadag; called ruthless, and as talented as he is villainous; the proud son of the Bool family | The rich and powerful Bool family | Kris Laudrum | |
Engineer who upgrades Shade's vehicles in the paddock | An Ardennian; described as Shade's talented mechanic and loyal friend, and known for adding an experimental part or two | Supports Shade | Lucy Montgomery | |
Legendary podracer; features notably in Arcade among the game modes | A Dug; his hard-won respect has to be earned before he offers support | Independent racer with a role in the League | Not announced | |
Founder of the Galactic League; backs Shade | A Besalisk; a lifelong racing fan and former mechanic for the Hutts, trying to reclaim control of his circuit | Galactic League | Andrew James Spooner | |
Ben Quadinaros | Returning podracer present in the game | A Toong; a storied podracer from the wider Star Wars galaxy | Independent racer | Not announced |
Notes on the cast
Three of these figures, Shade, Kestar Bool, and the engineer Hibi, are the core of the campaign’s drama. Darius Pax sets the story in motion by recruiting Shade. The two returning podracers, Sebulba and Ben Quadinaros, connect the game to the long history of Star Wars podracing; Sebulba in particular is highlighted as a racer you can pilot in Arcade mode and as a figure whose respect Shade must earn. Official material stops short of confirming that Sebulba joins Shade outright, asking instead whether the racing legend could also become a powerful ally, so treat him as a possible ally rather than a settled one.
The species tags here come from how the game and its makers have described each character: Shade as a Human, Kestar Bool as a Caskadag, Hibi as an Ardennian, Darius Pax as a Besalisk, Sebulba as a Dug, and Ben Quadinaros as a Toong. The first five are confirmed on the character profiles the game's official site added in September 2026. Where a detail rests on a single mention, treat it as confirmed but light rather than deeply established. Official material has used different pronouns for Shade on different occasions, so this wiki keeps to neutral phrasing for the protagonist. Each of the five profiled characters has a fuller page: Shade, Kestar Bool, Hibi, Darius Pax and Sebulba.
Voice Cast
Three performers had been announced as of September 27, 2026: Lucy Montgomery as Hibi, Andrew James Spooner as Darius Pax, and Kris Laudrum as Kestar Bool. Kestar's motion capture was performed separately by Mark Bridges, the game's Design Director. No voice actor had been named for Shade, Sebulba or Ben Quadinaros. The score and the cast introductions are covered on Music and Voice Cast.
Pit droids
Pit droids are the one non-pilot presence official material singles out by name. They can be found in the paddock repairing vehicles and helping pilots plot their course through the Galactic League, and they travel with the circuit rather than staying on one world: an official image shows a pit droid withstanding the freezing temperatures of Ando Prime. Racers are described as having their own pit droids, and the antagonist’s contempt for rival crews is written into his introduction, which calls him a gifted racer with little respect for his fellow competitors or their pit droids. The paddock itself is covered on Story and Campaign.
Pilots who have not been named
The campaign is explicit that Kestar and Shade are its main characters but that many other pilots are competing for the top spot, and official copy describes them collectively rather than individually: top racing pilots from across the Star Wars galaxy, from enthusiastic youngsters to veterans with egos as big as their speeders, all of them vying for the chance to be named League Champion.
Beyond the six characters in the table, no official source has identified a single one of those pilots. Names do circulate outside official channels, and they are left off this page deliberately rather than by oversight: a name that cannot be traced to the game’s own material does not belong in a roster. Several of the names in circulation are podracers from the wider Star Wars films rather than confirmed entrants in this game, which is exactly the kind of detail this wiki keeps out. This page will be expanded if an official roster is published.