Random Star Wars musing of the day

[yubsie]

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?

Comments

[yubsie]

Yeah, why people STAY is easy enough to explain, good old "Can't afford the fare OFF this rock." Slave labour might do it.

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

[jeepersjournal.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing they'd be people whose ancestors had ended up there for some reason or another [slavery, gang activity] who then opted to go for an honest living, and there's probably a demand for water and blue milk and such, so they'd be able to get by.

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]