Does Earth exist in some time in the Star Wars Universe?

"A Along time ago, in a galaxy far far away......"

That appears in every star wars film, but what does it mean?

The sentence seems to imply that Star Wars takes place in the past in the perspective of present day earth (an earth in which star wars is not a fictional franchise, but other then that like the real world).

Perhaps someday post Legacy, it could be a million years, maybe even a billion, when Man reaches Earth. Of course something would have happened to knock them back to the stone age as well as forget their origins.

Maybe some mysterious race in the future captures humans from the star wars galaxy and takes them to the milky way.

OR

Maybe Man originated on Earth without any contact from mankind of the star wars galaxy. Of course its to big of a coincidence for the same species to have origins in two separate places of the universe. The only way for this theory to work is if the "Will of the Force" created Man on Earth, after all the Force is like the Star Wars version of God, it would also explain why many alien races that have no connection to Man, look very similar to them (think the Vong who come from another galaxy but still look similar to humans).

There already are several things in star wars that seem connected to our world. Just look at the wookipedia.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Earth

And of course the ET supposed connection to Star Wars do not count, since ET exists in a world where Star Wars is fictional, it can't be real and fictional at the same time.


So do you guys think there is any star wars connection to Earth in-universe?

 

Academically, sure, but not in any way that would have a clear impact on anything.

 

Perhaps in a literal sense, but I can guarantee there will never be a canon earth sequence.

 

Well, if you toss out the 'long time ago' and 'far, far away' part, it could, depending on
how creative you want to be, but you would have to explain things such as lack of Force
sensativity and awareness, much less control, amoung humans, etc. Still, you could always
start playing around with time, but that's always a deus ex machina I totally despise since
it opens too many loopholes.

Hum. Interesting conundrum.

 

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Indiana_Jones

 

Yes, Earth exists in the world of SW. But its located in a galaxy far far away from the EU. The puddle-footed sentients from Brodo Asogi (seen in Episode III) did visit Earth at least once. Senator Grebleips represented the species on the Galactic Senate and I believe was the one that pushed for an extragalactic expedition project. It's possible that this is the project that was seen in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

 

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Earth

 

The ET species is Canon in Star Wars, but the star wars reference in ET is not canon, just a reference, like there is a reference of ET in TPM.

After all if ET came from the star wars galaxy, then why was star wars fictional on earth?

 

Easy. Multiple visits over the history of Earth's mankind. So therefore, stories of this far far away galaxy where passed on and became folklore and fairy tails. Eventually someone took these stories and turned them into a movie. Thus, this would explain why the "E.T." recognized that SW merchandise in the movie. Anything can be link and explained. That's the beauty of the imagination.

As for 100% canon, LOL, well it doesn't fit that bill. Earth and humans were going to play a part in the Alien Exodus Trilogy novels, but was canceled. So Earth was in the works for SW, but got put back on the shelf (for now). So I'd say it's "quasi-canon" that Earth exists in SW.

 

I was always sort of a sucker for those AE ideas. Though I also like the setting existing as its own thing, without ever having any direct relation to our universe besides the meanings derived from the stories.

 

Actually, the original 1977 trailer featured the line "Somewhere in space, this may all be happening right now."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvqpFbRKtQ

Of course with spacetime, physics, and lightspeed, "A long time ago ..." is very relative, so I always thought the Galaxy Far, Far Away was intended to be a place that theoretically could be reached.

Plus, I think it helps anchor a lot of the historical mythology and imagery in Star Wars: frontier life on the Lars homestead, Han's cowboy gear, WWII-style dogfighting, gangsters, bounty hunters, the Republic, the senate, and on and on.

I remember Stanley Kubrick commenting on this one time. He thought Star Wars was interesting because it showed how Lucas saw the universe, and served as a great contrast to how he and Arthur C. Clarke saw in in 2001.

 

It occurs to me to point out that as long as SW isn't explicitly said to be an alternate-universe story, its universe has an Earth in it pretty much by definition - because Earth is part of the universe. Therefore, the Star Wars universe also has, say, a Crab Nebula, and an Andromeda Galaxy - because it is ostensibly this universe.

Come to think of it - it's actually easier to think of the GFFA as being part of our universe than lots of other popular fiction - X-Files, for example, is purported to be happening in our universe, but we know it can't because FBI agent Fox Mulder is a provably nonexistent person. Likewise, Rose DeWitt Bukater was provably not on the Titanic, and Dunder-Mifflin is provably not a real paper company.

So the better question, I think, would be - on the GFFA universe's Earth, does Star Wars exist as a movie franchise?

 

You're getting into Battlestar territory there, in more ways than one.

"Astro-body M8, the Lagoon Nebula."

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"All this has happened before, and it will happen again."

 

IIRC, Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles was more or less going to make Earth distinctly canon as the homeworld of GFFA humans; something along those lines.