I think it's great you want to start a forum but if you are serious about growing it to thousands of members a few hundred dollars in start up costs should not put you off. I barely have a thousand members, far less of them active, and I can pay my board hosting and license fees from advertising and other revenue generation.
That said, have you googled "Star Wars Forums" - there's no shortage of them, there are 10 forums under the "Star Wars" category on big-boards alone. I'm curious what your plan is to make yours so much better than the many scores of established Star Wars forums? That is- if it's not a secret.
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