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Random Star Wars musing of the day
A thought struck me in the shower today.
Why the frak did humans settle on Tatooine in the first place? Did it used to be a much more hospitable environment? Because it's not like humans developed there. Or were chased by cylons until their ships broke down. People went to all the trouble of travelling through hyperspace to get to this lousy planet where even the dust has dust. What were they THINKING?
Or is it just that magnetic force that always drew the plot back to Tatooine at work?
Why the frak did humans settle on Tatooine in the first place? Did it used to be a much more hospitable environment? Because it's not like humans developed there. Or were chased by cylons until their ships broke down. People went to all the trouble of travelling through hyperspace to get to this lousy planet where even the dust has dust. What were they THINKING?
Or is it just that magnetic force that always drew the plot back to Tatooine at work?
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Perhaps there was some resource on Tatooine that we never saw that made it valuable for at least some people to live there.
Also, were the Hutt species natives? In the movies at least, we never see them off the planet. Even if they aren't, it might be the perfect environment for them.
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In the books they were from Nal Hutta... a swamp world. Because CLEARLY people from a swamp world would want to hang out on Tatooine. :p
The Jawas and the Tusken Raiders were native, iirc, but they didn't tend to enslave humans leading to a plausible reason they'd be around. :p
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Okay well...clearly those books are just wrong. No way swamp world creatures would be happy on Tatooine.
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Now, if it were a dessert world...
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If it were a dessert world... I think the Sith would have eaten it.
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The Sith ate it! That's why the BSG cast never could find the hot fudge planet and were stuck with algae. :p
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If I were a Sith, I would totally eat a hot fudge planet.
I still have to watch BSG one of these days... :P
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Dude, I don't need to be a Sith to eat a hot fudge planet. It's a HOT FUDGE PLANET.
You do! It's wonderful! Heartbreaking, but wonderful!
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But... do you think a JEDI would eat a hot fudge planet?
So I've heard! I remember hearing my friends obsess about the show, and I just made them all promise that, when the series finale rolled around, they wouldn't spoil the ending for me so I could watch it someday ;)
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I'm not sure why I didn't watch it sooner. THough this way I never had to endure the horrible season finale cliffhangers.
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Solar energy farmers. Big game hunters. Sand castle competition Olympians...
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Solar energy and Krayt dragon hunting on the other hand....
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Tatooine was settled a looooong time ago (before KOTOR), then abandoned (except for people left behind who became the Fremen ... I mean Sand People :p). The Jawas may have been native, but I'm not sure anyone can get a straight answer out of them to find out. It was recolonised a few decades before KOTOR by Czerka Corp. in an attempt to mine the planet. It was a bad investment and was shortly thereafter abandoned.
It was settled a few more times, leading to about 100 years before Yavin, when yet another cluster of capitalists without any ideas colonised the dirt ball, and a few people eeked out a living farming the very limited water from the air (although if you look at the sky in the 1st and 4th movies, you could SWEAR there was a recent storm :P).
/Nerd
//Used to read TimeTales
///nerd
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As in since it's a backwater, desolate planet, it'd be the spot to go about your illegal business, so I imagine some of the human population is there for assorted immoral purposes. Smugglers, gangsters etc.
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The gangsters and such made sense. I mean, the Rebels hung out on Hoth precisely BECAUSE it sucked. It was just why people like the moisture farmers would end up there... when you have to farm moisture. :p
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Another theory- it might of once served as a prison planet, and everyone's the offspring of convicts, like Australia :)
Though I really need to get back into reading more EU stuff. I want to buy those Jedi Detective novels.... I finished off the batch of used New Jedi Order books I had so I'm kind of Star Wars-reading-less at the moment [do have a Darth Maul novel, and a Mace Windu novel whose whereabouts I'm unsure of though]
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But probably because Slaves were brought from other planets to serve the deserty races...
It's a good point!
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Alec Guiness was not amused methinks.
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"But... but... logic!"
"SHUSH!" :p
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Or maybe they're people who used to live on Kamino and got sick of all the rain.
Or Tatooine is halfway between Naboo and ... maybe Alderaan, and back before the hyperdrive was invented they needed a pit stop. And the people who ran out of fuel or couldn't fix their ships ended up settling there.
Or maybe there's a secret underground cave system that's like a tropical paradise, and only a select few know about it, they never tell new arrivals until they've been around a few years. I think there was an entrance to the cave system in Ben Kenobi's hut.
:P
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