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The Star Wars franchise always has been long on imagination. Fantastic creatures, giant spaceships, man-made death moons—the galaxy far, far away has them all. It also contains a rich array of planets, each with a unique environment. But one thing about those celestial bodies always stood out: the singular adjective—desert, ice, etc.—describing each of them.
Whereas Earth hosts a wide diversity of biomes, the planets of Star Wars boast far fewer climates and topographies. The ice planet Hoth never thaws. The desert planet Tatooine seems to never see rain or cold. Meanwhile, the forest moon Endor orbits the temperate zone of a gas giant and a diminutive Jedi master trains in a world covered by an unchanging bog.
While a world of sorcerers, faster-than-light travel, and fussy robots may not meet the standards of the hardest of hard sci-fi (why was the T-65 X-wing starfighter a long-range vehicle but the TIE Fighter wasn’t?), seeing the mono-ecosystem worlds of Star Wars raises the question: Is a world with a single, homogenous weather pattern the exception or the rule? Earth has many environments, but does the rest of the universe look more like our home or Luke Skywalker’s?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by dexcheque on Saturday April 25 2015, @11:34AM
What if that Galaxy Far, Far Away isn't a galaxy the way we reckon it? Without the cold, hard vacuum of space, but something a little more like the philogistron in Spelljammer -- with it's own inherent gravity and atmosphere? And those worlds aren't "planets" as such?
Might go a long way toward explaining a few other things:
Why everyone hears the pew-pews and booms of "space" battle.
Why everyone walks around in any vessel large enough to merit a hallway.
Why the cockpits of X-wing fighters and Corellian freighters seem to be lined with pencil-thin panes of glass for windshields (you know, to keep space bugs out of your teeth).
Why those semi-psionic space rangers can use their druid spells.
In other words, what if it's the Narrative that serves as Starwars' foundation and not something as shifty, and untrustworthy as Spacetime?
Just a thought.