Desert Planets

I'm trying to cook out a idea for a Star Wars Fan Film but i live in Arizona so it's all desert. What Star Wars planets was desert other than Tatooine?

 

Korriban.

 

There are a lot of planets in the Star Wars universe that, like Earth, have more than one climate. Corellia comes to mind. Ask yourself if a full desert planet is needed - or indeed why you can't just make one up yourself. (Another planet comes to mind, but it wasn't explored until the New Jedi Order series anyways, so it's more than likely that including it would nullify the canon you're trying to keep by using a pre-existing planet.)

 

Here's a list of 78 desert planets from Wookieepedia. If you can't find one there you like, you should probably just make one up.

 

Dude...just make one up. The GFFA is huge, with so many thousands of races making up the Republic...and for every planet that's inhabited, there's gotta be sever hundred thousand--if not in the millions--that are uninhabited; the possibilities for making up your own planets are golden. Get creative with it.

 

I agree with RocketGirl, it's your film, make it yours. Besides if you make it up, you don't have to adhear to any prexsisting limits of the planet.

 

I disagree. I think using a canon planet, and throwing in researched tidbits sell a fanfilm to me a lot more than another made up planet, which often times sound faker than canon ones, and automatically make for a movie distanced from Star Wars as we know it. With all the resources fanfilmmakers have now, there's no excuse to shy away from the main story. Hell, you get the right costumers (like some people I know) you could do a fanfilm with central characters to the Lucas films, and pull it off fine. Don't be afraid to connect your Star Wars film to, well...Star Wars.

 

i will agree with that on some occasions, but I mean there are certain occasions when a preexsisting planet just won't cut it. And if you do it correctly and actually put some decent thought into it. I think anyone should be able to make a planet seem part of the universe.

 

The problem with using a canon planet is that, eventually, we're gonna run out. Eventually, everything is going to start seeming the same. That's kind of why I get grouchy every time we get yet another fan film that rehashes Anakin's story arc, only with different characters; after a while, every someone's-turning-to-the-dark-side story blends in with every other.

Making up your own planet shouldn't shake your fan film to its knees and suddenly turn it into not-Star-Wars. After all, I'd never heard of Mustafar or Utapau before ROTS, yet those planets were uniquely Star Wars in their own way.
My own fan film contains a planet I yanked outta my butt; I wanted to set my fan film on a coast, a kind of beach resort sort of town, so I set it on a relatively Earth-like planet called Ularen. And yet, despite Ularen never having existed in the Star Wars universe until I made it up, it was connected to Star Wars. The buildings, the vehicles, the technology, the businesses, the liberal use of Aurabesh on signs and things, the sound effects, the music...everything came together to make it nearly scream Star Wars to the viewer. Personally, I think it succeeded; have a lookie at my trailer--the thread should still be on the main page--and see if you agree.

Point is if your desert planet doesn't appear in the SW canon, if it's something you made up, as long as you put enough Star Wars style into it, nobody will care. Well, unless your story is less than engaging, anyway; then they might care a great deal.

So, once again, my vote goes to making it up. It's more creative, and really, what have you really got to lose?

 

Indyfan, do whatever you want. I know what I'd do but then there would be someone saying I should have done the opposite. There's always one in the crowd.

 

The planet Arrizonia is desert. Just make up a name and create your own planet, that's always fun.

 

Nice Thursday visual

I am 50/50 on this. I agree with both the Canon and making one up angles.

I'd say do this:

1. You know in your mind you want a desert planet.
2. Since you know that, create the rest of your story, putting your efforts on solid storyline, storyboards, etc.
3. If at that time your storyline dictates canon, use something pre-existing. If there's no need, then make it up.

That's my take on it. Some of those planets have a deeply rooted history and if you go canon, you may hose yourself in the end. A primary example is Korriban. Say your fan film is centered around Jedi and/or "good guy" outpost/training facility/etc...then Korriban wouldn't be a good place seeing how it's the home of the Sith Lords and forever remains "Sithy."

Now if you're having problem with a storyline, then using canon may help there.

People want to see originality, so do whatever it takes to keep the SW flavor, yet make it your own.

 

You're in AZ, eh?
Just don't go hitting on my little sister, and whatever planet you choose will be fine with me.

I mean, as long as you have a cool name and something alien about it there's no reason why it shouldn't work.

-Vaportrail

 

In the story does the planet actualy have to be named?

 

and besides, there's more to tattooine than just the dune sea, mos eisley, mos espa and junland wastes.

 

Disclaimer: I didn't read the thread.


I've always found it really amusing that in many Sci-Fi universes, planets all seem to have only one climate. Hoth is snow. Tattoine is Desert. Dune is Desert. Kamino is Water.
Star Trek was a little better in using "classes" for all their planets. But even there, there are always cases of an entire planet only having one climate.

I wonder if the writers ever take into consideration that in order for an ecosystem to exist at all, you can't have just ONE climate.

What I'm getting at is that, perhaps it's a good idea to just have a planet. And that planet just happens to have a region that is very desert-like.

In the end, I think that would be more realistic anyway. It's not like it has to be cannon. There are more stars in any one galaxy than there are sands on any one beach on this planet alone. It's not out of the question that your story could take place on one that was never mentioned before.

 

I thought the same, Durb, but I think the reason why is that is hard to imagine climates of planets different enough from our own to be alien. So, Lucas takes some of the more exotic locales of Earth and turns them into planets that do, in fact, seem very alien. If every planet was as diverse as Earth, it may not seem as alien.

 

Oddly enough, despite what I said before, there still does seem to be some truth to the broad classification of planets, even within out own solar system.

Mars is known as a big red rock with ice caps. Mercury is a little ball of hot rock. All the outer planets except Pluto are gas giants, so they don't even have a surface, let alone climates.

But there is still a relevant point to make. All of those planets are devoid of life as we know it. And it seems pretty obvious what the reason is for that.
Without an ecosystem like we have here on Earth, there cannot be life as we understand it.

Here's something else to put in your pipe and smoke. There are environments right here on Earth that contain life we cannot relate to. Life that exists in places that nothing we know as normal can survive in.

 

Depends on the plot.

Given how political my own fan film gets, and that the story is about the planet being conquered, yeah, it needs a name. In the case of something like ESB, we could have gone the entire movie without ever hearing the names "Hoth" or "Bespin" and it wouldn't have changed the movie much at all; "Dagobah" was kinna important, tho.

 

That's because sci-fi is always about metaphor. It's the same mentality that has each planet has a single language, culture, brand of beer, etc, etc. It?s not inherent racism (all Russians are dour) or even lazy writing, it?s just that you can only throw so much information at your audience. Heck, each street corner of Manhattan island is it?s own little world but it most films you just have a generic NYC as the background. The further you get from home the broader the brushstrokes, it seems.

Honestly, you could do a fan film called Around the Dantoine in 80 Cycles but if you?re going to spend resources on unique locations you may as well add the sci-fi flair of different worlds. You could, hypothetically, spend the time crafting a dynamic and complex single world ? or country or city or even building depending on your setting ? but that level of dedication is more suited to a novel where you have more time to digest information. Cinematic audience doesn?t really care that much unless there?s some accompanying spectacle: ?Ooo! The Markets at Constantinople! The Turkish Baths! The Forbidden City! The Hanging Gardens!?, which means the camera pans around for 5 minutes then the story goes to some molly storage room where the exposition continues.

Somthing like Jackson's Lord of the Rings is a rare example of doing a dymanic world justice - everything's wthin jogging distance no less! - but he had a well-established world to draw from.

 

On that topic, it greatly amused me in Stargate SG-1 when Carter found herself on an all-ice planet.

It was later revealed that she'd just been transported to Antarctica.

 

Haha, wouldn't that make you feel dumb.

"I think I've discovered an alien outpost!" Then a couple of scientists run outta the compound and offer you Hot Chocolate. It's good Hot Chocolate, but a bit of a let down after thinking you'd discovered alien life...

 

Incidentally, hot chocolate is Luke Skywalker's favorite drink.

 

The instant kind, where you mix powdered chocolate with heated-up blue milk.

 

Eww... What color would that be?