-tooine systems

There seems to be a dozen or so systems with the -tooine in them. Anyone have any idea why?

Tatooine
Dantooine
Klatooine

 

Why not?

 

Why are there so many countries (and proposed countries) that end in -stan?

Pakistan
Afghanistan
Kurdistan

Kimball Kinnison

 

Tooine might mean "world" or "land" in some language in the GFFA, or maybe even here on earth.

 

isnt ther a Kintooine?

 

It might be better stated that "-ooine" is a suffix similar to "-istan". Here's what I've found over at CUSWE:

Cardooine
Dantooine
Kinooine
Klatooine
Mantooine
Reltooine
Sestooine
Tatooine
Ventooine

Any others?

 

Tatooine.
Perhapes there was an explorer named Ooine.

 

I believe the suffix -stan means something like "country" in Arabic. That's what I presume since almost all the countries that end with it are predominantly Islamic.

-ooine on the other hand could be Huttese in origin. I'm just guessing since I figure the Hutts control both Klatooine and Tatooine. But then again, I believe most of those worlds were colonized by humans, so it could be a derivative of an old dialect of Basic.

 

I like the idea of an explorer named Ooine.

 

The hutts started dominating Tatooine and Katooine later.

 

Isn't Dantooine located in what would be considered the NE of the galaxy? with Tatooine in the SW? and Klatooine somewhere in the East? I'm not 100% sure on my SW geography, but I'm pretty sure that these three systems are separated by a lot of light years of space, making it less likely that it was based on a single discoverer.

But hey you never know.

 

Maybe word just kinda traveled and in the early stages of space exploration many planets decided they liked the Ooine system. We have been doing something similar, when countries seperate or are conquered, etc. Look at Prussia, wait, I mean Germany, or was that Germania?

 

It could also be part of cartographical nomenclature. The prefix "Ord" found next to many planets (e.g. Ord Mantell, Ord Trasi) means "Ordinance/regional supply" and was used to designate Old Republic naval bases.

 

does that mean that the principal stars of each of these systems is Mantoo, Dantoo, Klatoo, etc?

Tatooine orbits the binary star cluster Tatoo I and Tatoo II. I wonder if the other -tooines are also systems of binary stars. (Thus the -tooine suffix may have to relate to the two-star nature of the system)

(a note in Skippy the Jedi Droid ponders the complete unlikelihood of a binary star pair having planets -- any credence to this?)

 

There's another: Grakouine. I know there's a U in the name instead of two Os, but it's close enough.

 

jawajames, binary star systems are actually more common than single star systems, so I would say the likelyhood is high, if I understood the question correctly

 

i think the issue posed in skippy is that binary star systems might not make for long-lasting planets or habitable planets or the like.

still anyone with the EGP&M handy, does it mention if the other --tooine systems have a single star or binary star etc.?

 

Well, the name Tatooine is supposed to be a bad translation of some Jawa name for the planet, so unless the Jawas have secretely mapped all the other ooine-world, I find this a bit strange.

 

well, Jawas do show up on other worlds, which i always found odd. it could be that the Jawas just added the Tat- part and the -ooine might have been from other sources.

 

I believe two or three of the Extra-solar planets (not part of our solar system) that scientists have found in our galaxy orbit binary systems. None are habitable because they orbit much too close to their stars and/or are gas giants. But you can have planets form in binary star systems.

As for starwars, -tooine is probaly some old GFFA scientific term for boondocks,the sticks, or farthest point from the bright spot of galaxy. My GFFA geography is not very good, but I do know that Tatooine and Dantooine are considered out in the sticks by many characters, like Luke and Grand Moff Tarkin. They are both in the Outer Rim. Maybe -tooine has some conotation to that as well.

 

Rats migrate with humans and their waste. Why couldn't a semi-advanced culture such as the Jawas do the same?

 

Note-Prussia was one of the largest of many different Germany states prior to the Second Reich, before the King of Prussia became Kaiser Wilhelm I. Previously, there were, oh maybe about 300 or so little German kingdoms, duchies, principalities, etc.

But yeah, it could be a suffix like-how many countries end in "Land?" Ireland, England, Scotland? Greenland, Iceland? Poland? Finland? And "ia"-Russia, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Lithuania, Austria, etc.

Probably the same thing. I think it's pretty neat, actually.

 

Guin has a point there. Why shouldn't it be any different to "-ian"?

Only because it sounds unusual to us Earthians.

 

The 'Tatoo' comes from the 2 suns in Tatooine's system, Tatoo 1 and Tatoo 2. Its possible the suns in other systems are called Mantoo, Klatoo...etc. The 'ine' could come from anywhere.