Im not sure this is legal, otherwise we would see many games with Star Wars models.
Well, it would be in violation of Lucasfilm's copyright. However, the way copyright law works is that the rights holder must send a cease and desist to the alleged violator. What that basically means is you must take down the work and cease further work. Do that and you won't see the inside of a court room. Ignore the C&D and you may find yourself at the wrong end of a lawsuit.
Granted, that means that the rights holder must notice your work and care. Unlike trademarks, copyright law doesn't *have* to be enforced ("Star Wars" is trademarked, the unique representation of art, plots, etc are copyrighted).
Given how much fan work there is related to Star Wars, you could quite possibly create a Star Wars mod and get away with it. But there's a risk of getting a C&D and having your work be for nothing.
On one hand, there's been numerous larger projects that have (still) evaded C&Ds. For example, I'm currently playing
Pokemon Zeta/Omicron, a very well designed Pokemon fan-made game that's over a year in progress and has tens of thousands of players. On the other hand, there's been some very high profile games that were taken down due to C&Ds. For example, I'm still upset that
Square Enix shut down a fan-made Chrono Trigger game (especially since SE has shown no interest in remaking a series that so many fans want).
But anyway, MattConn, if you want to see this made, you'll probably have to do so yourself. I strongly encourage you to check out
our wiki for documentation on how to make a mod. Start slow. Perhaps with retextures of one of the MegaPack factions. Learn how the mods work and some basic image editing. Then when you get better, you can start making your own models to really set the mod apart (and make it look like actual star wars and not just another retextured mod).
Good luck.
