Star Wars Fanworks exists for one purpose: the promotion and admiration of the growing Star Wars fan audio genre.

Fan audio products are perhaps only second to "slash" in being the black sheep, or the forgotten sons, of Star Wars fandom. It is a fairly new genre, only truly catching on after the turn of the millennium, while fan films and written fan fiction have existed for, quite literally, decades. To use the phrasing of Rich Sigfrit, the producer of Requiem of the Outcast, the fan audio genre is often the "outcast" of fan productions.

It is perhaps fitting that a character in the first serious fan audio drama, Second Strike, utters the line, "You're small, but you're growing." That was precisely the state of fan audio at the time that this site was created in summer 2003.

In the year leading up to the formation of this site, several things happened. First, the most popular of the new generation of Star Wars radio shows ended its original run. Second, the first serious fan audio drama was released, just in time for Christmas. Third, the mainstream fan film community effectively gave fan audio the boot.

Fan audio creators found that their work would not find hosting alongside fan films on one of the larger fan film community websites, leaving many of those creators feeling as if they were without a home for their chosen medium.

It just so happened that this all took place around the same time that "T'Bone" of StarWarz.com was looking to branch out into new projects and when a significant portion of the fan audio projects in the community at that point were all hosted under the StarWarz.com banner already, via Nathan Butler's StarWarz/Timeline area.

And so, the founder of one of the "big three," the most active fan audio creator in the field at that moment, and a talented web designer who appeared out of nowhere at just the right time, came together and gave birth to the site you see before you.

We are Star Wars Fanworks. We are, first and foremost, fans ourselves. We seek no glory because, well, it's just a hobby, not a lifestyle. We seek no profit because we don't enjoy litigation all that much. What we do seek to present, and what we hope to provide to the community, is a site that can act as a hub in the slowly-growing genre of fan audio productions.

Because everyone, even the outcast, needs a home.