Is there any reason at all why Naboo couldn't have been Alderaan?

Apparently when GL was first writing the PT it was. Why didn't he keep it that way? It would make alot more sense since Naboo isn't in the OT. Both planets are lush and green. There isn't any specific Alderaanian species so the gungans could have done just as well. I wish GL made Naboo, Alderaan

 

Because it wouldn't make sense for Leia's mother to be from the same planet as her adopted parents. That'd be too obvious.

 

I think because it might have been too obvious of a place to hide Leia then. They get away with Tatooine I think because in all reality it probably the last place Vader wanted to go. I think having both planets be where a parent is from would have been too coincedental.

 

Because it's a galaxy, and there happen to be more than five planets in it.

 

What ousley said, that would draw too much attention to Leia, if she happened to be fromt he same planet as Padme and looked just like her and when into politics and had the hots for pilots and . . .



also Alderaan was not lush and green, seemed fairly mountainous and snowy to me

 

I think in Stover's novel Obi-Wan said it was a good idea to have her "Hidden in Plain Sight"

Besides, do you think Vader would ever go back to Naboo/Alderaan, the homeplanet of his torment and affliction?

 

also Alderaan was not lush and green, seemed fairly mountainous and snowy to me

There could be multiple climates like on our planet.

 

Yeah like Tatooine, some is blazing hot rock, and some is blazing hot sand.

 

It occured to me that it would be possible , but I can't see why it would be necessary.

 

I'm just thankful that we got to actually see the surface of Alderaan at all!!

 

It would've been cool in the sense that the Empire would've destroyed Palpatine's home planet in ANH.

 

If Naboo had been Alderaan, then we mightn't have seen how some star fighters were alredy astro driod-reliant. On the other hand we wouldn't have been annoyed by Jar jar bink's incomprehensible language and bad fighting skills as a general.

 

Alderaan is a fairly major world even in the movies unlike some backwater planet like Naboo. If the Trade Federation had tried to take Alderaan over everyone would've known, and the Senators would be demanding something be done because if the TF could invade Alderaan they could invade any other world as well.

 

But the entire point of them taking a planet hostage is that the senate won't act TOO agressively towards it; because of their lack of care over Naboo, Palpatine can get Valorum voted out of the senate. As you've said, had it been a more important/popular planet like Alderaan then there's a very big chance that Valorum/the bureaucrats could never have been convinced to delay doing anything about it.

- O_F

 

Because it wouldn't make sense for Leia's mother to be from the same planet as her adopted parents. That'd be too obvious.

Yep, or to take Luke to his father's planet. Oh, wait a minute...

In short, no, not really any reason at all, other than GL decided to do something different.

 

Yeah, but Luke wasn't in the public spotlight.

 

Maybe George just needed a new planet.

 

Alderaan is a fairly major world even in the movies unlike some backwater planet like Naboo.

Its never indicated in the movies that Alderaan is more important than Naboo. And if Naboo is a backwater planet, then so is Alderaan, given the fact that Alderaan has no weapons or armies.

 

If Naboo and Alderaan were one and the same then Alderaan would be inhabited by Gungans and then everyone would cheer in ANH when the DS blows it up!

 

Tarkin destroys Alderaan instead of Dantooine because no one would have cared if Dantooine was destroyed while they would care if Alderaan was destroyed.

 

Weapons and armies aren't an indicator of a planets importance.

And what in the world makes you think they didn't have "weapons or armies"?
You think, what, the Tantive IV was spitting at the Star Destroyer? The soldiers inside, what about them?

Alderaans defenses were as strong as any planet in the Empire, despite what the lying Leia says.

 

He is right they didn't have any defenses or armies but neither does Japan and there more important than... than... Turkmenistan

 

It would be hard to explain how a pacifist planet has N-1 starfighters and armed guards.

 

Like others have mentioned, it would have made Leia's parentage way too obvious to Vader, Palpatine, and Leia herself. It's one thing to raise Luke on a backwater planet as a lowly moisture farmer, but raising Leia as a prominent political figure on the very same planet where Padme was also a prominent political figure might lead to people putting 2 and 2 together.

 

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And where, praytell, did you get that information from?

I guess I just imagined the gun turrets on the Tantive IV?
And the armed soldiers, they must be figments too?

And before you bring up the inevitable "Leia said so", she lied. She lied to the Imperials everytime she opened her mouth, this is no diffrent.