Dune

AKA Arrakis [wikipedia.org]

One might wonder if the spice worms of Arrakis might have thrived on Tatooine albeit invasively.

Or produce a sarlacc-sandworm hybrid.

As I recall (books are in storage) there is a map in _Dune_ showing that all the action happens near the North pole of Arrakis. This suggests that Arrakis actually does have latitudinal variations but the rest of the planet is considered uninhabitable.

Most of the action on Dune occurs in the Northern hemisphere. This is because the shield wall and bedrock protected the area from incursion by the sandworms. Fremen inhabit other areas of Arrakis, but only the Northern 75° of the planet have been explored by the imperials because the Fremen use the uninhabitable equatorial area, weather control, their defense forces, extensive camouflage, and bribes from their spice smuggling operations in the southern half to keep their various activities there hidden. However, they do describe the southern half as being very similar to the north, with the major difference being less and smaller shield rocks.

Caladan with almost continuous rain might be better.

So, choosing between Arizona and Seattle? Tough call.

The one with all the androids.

To the AC (who all know who it was) who claims that the previous poll was archive early - you are an idiot!

The polls and stories all archive automatically. There isn't, as far as I am aware, a way of archiving one 'early'.

I withdrew my participation in a discussion that was off-topic, repetitive and yet another attempt by you to stir up trouble. I was informing you that you would receive no more discussion from me. As is the case in this comment too.

I do not know a way of archiving a poll 'early'. It timed out on 31 days.

I have just checked an confirmed. I can see no way of editing a Poll once it has been released. We do not have access to who can post to it, or when it times out. You can make any allegations that you wish but there is no way I can see of doing what you believe happened. I simply close my discussion with another person. I cannot see any way to close or archive a Poll.

I am now closing this discussion with you,

My comment was deleted, too. I have a sad.

While there was not much in the way of biome in the description of Trantor [wikipedia.org], I seem to recall a similar lack of latitudinal variation.

Tractor and all the city-planets: Corsucant, etc.

While there was not much in the way of biome in the description of Trantor [wikipedia.org], I seem to recall a similar lack of latitudinal variation.

How would you know? Apart from the Imperial Palace, the entire surface is covered in climate controlled domes. Maybe there are hurricanes above the tropical domes and blizzards above the polar domes but nobody goes there.

"I don't know lad, it's like no cheese I ever tasted." Wallace & Grommit

Speaking of moons, Pandora [wikipedia.org] should be an option.

Where else would you go for unobtanium? Breathing might be tricky though.

I suspect that Endor's popularity is not due to its small furry population, but rather because it's the one that would be the most comfortable to live on. At least, that's why I chose it.

It was mine too; but it's a bitter-sweet choice. The sweet is that it would indeed be a good place to live. In fact, it was shot on location in NorCal. The bitter is that it was old growth redwood, and it got logged. We're down to 5% now. There's a sustainable 2nd growth redwood industry now, and I've got no problem with that. Even in the 80s, it was hard to justify taking those giants down, and particularly hard in this case: Leaving them in place could have created a fantastic tourist attraction in an area that became depressed due to being logged out, and turned to weed growing. What real fan would not want to visit the actual location? Most of it is gone [sfgate.com]. How did the movie geniuses throw that opportunity away?

Walt learned after Disneyland to buy up all the surrounding real-estate for Disney World.

If Lucas really were a visionary, the Star Wars franchise was obviously a major hit before they started shooting Jedi - he could indeed have predicted the future potential of "Ewoks land" as a quasi-eco-tourism play, not that eco-tourism was much of a thing in 1983 but that's where the visionary bit comes in. He certainly could have afforded the land with the in-tact old growth trees by then, a shrewd land seller would have demanded a cut of the gross earnings for 50 years after release...

Instead we got those two absolute cheeseball movies featuring poor actors in bad wrinkly brown fur costumes. And you can rewatch them endlessly with a D+ streaming subscription.

You also forgot about the much more forgettable TV show. Some episodes are truly terrible, but others are surprisingly good.

Under the canon, Endor isn’t a single biome. It has a wide variety of biomes and climes. And the forests aren’t exactly safe either. They are home to all sorts of dangerous plants and intelligent animals. It might be nice enough to make a home but the constant caution required would probably wear thin.

But... Treehouses!

Arbor. One of the moons of Mongo in the 1980 Flash Gordon movie.

Trees and swamp.

...what little of it we see. And being Star Wars, I assume it was single-biome. :p (I know, it sure is now...sigh.)
I like mountains.

Actually, the little pockets of Alderaan life that survived would have been isolated and evolved into highly diverse communities --- of vacuum tolerant microbes if it were our galaxy, but a long time ago in a galaxy far far away apparently they had giant worm things with Mynocs flying around inside them which could live on tiny asteroids with scarce atmosphere and no reliable sources of food.

What are you talking about? They obviously fed on the midichlorians that were generated within their systems in a beautiful example of symbiosis.

Psst - Kathleen Kennedy. I'm available if you need new writers. And I'm cool with exploring under-represented minorities in the SWU, such as giant asteroid/sand/aquatic worms, Wampas, Sand People and green-skinned dancers. May I suggest a movie exploring the forbidden love between a Sarlacc and a Sando Aqua Monster? [fandom.com]

Aren't midichlorians just magic quantum entangled mitochondria?

You got the magic part right at least.

How about Moclus [fandom.com], ironically perhaps. It sort of gives you hope if you think Earth is going to exterminate all non-human species, and that you'll never get a girl... assuming you want a girl and if you don't, then all the better.

If you are going to mention Moclus, then you should also mention Sanctuary. It is the opposite of Moclus in almost every way, including the population being almost exclusively women.

I've always been partial to ice worlds. Darkover (Marion Zimmer Bradley) was one of the first cold, or ice age worlds I explored. There aren't a lot of major novels, but there have been dozens of short stories on ice worlds and/or ice age worlds.

Icerigger - Alan Dean Foster

A reasonably fun adventure story, not amazing, and definitely not hard scifi.

: “Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

It's rather hard to find a single-biome planet in Starfield Universe, most have multiple biomes even if barren, but one such preferable single-biome is Pluto, Sol system.

No annoying fauna crawling around and conditions favorable enough for mining Titanium (Ti) and Wolfram (W^*) early in game. And you need these a lot if you want to build big industry elsewhere.
Plenty of abandoned/deserted pre-War facilities to explore and plunder too.

Yes, I know this planet was officially un-planeted by IAU but as self-esteemed sovereign Spacer I do not accept such bureaucratic un-designation.

[*] Some funny people call this metal a Tungsten.

From the movie "interstellar" we have Miller's Planet, orbiting a black hole just outside the Roche limit. High gravity (130% of Earth's), extreme time dilation of 1 hr planet time / 7 years off-planet (with frame dragging as well), and 4,000ft-high tidal waves that sweep the surface about once an hour (local frame of reference).

What's not to love? Grab your surf board and get ready to catch the biggest wave of your life!

I prefer my planets be much farther than that from a black hole.

I'm not sure an entire planet of Tom Hankses counts as a "biome".

No, "moon" is that action that Forrest is doing.

Which means we get to see a very different biome instead...

I'd had preferred 12 in the Riddick to Fast&Furious