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

[i-paint-the-sky.livejournal.com]

LOL, it's like Canada, only worse!

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.

[yubsie]

Canada's totally a better place than Tatooine. Not that it's HARD. :p

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

[i-paint-the-sky.livejournal.com]

It's true!

Okay well...clearly those books are just wrong. No way swamp world creatures would be happy on Tatooine.