Why are there so many humans?

How come it seems like there are so many humans in the Star Wars universe. They seem to live on every planet, while the other species seem to be restricted to 1 or 2 planents as there main home planet. Has the expanded universe ever explained why there are so many planets populated by humans and how they came about populating such a diverse number of regions in the galaxy? Also, what planet did all of these humans originate from, does it have anything to do with the actual planet Earth, does Earth even exist in the Star Wars universe? I don't know for some reason these questions have always bothered me.

 

In The Essential Chronology, it says that humans just appeared and started colonizing the core worlds and the rest of the GFFA.

I do think that there is an overabundance of humans, though.

 

As far as I'm aware, we are not aware of their planet of origin- the inhabitants of the GFFA don't even know. Its been forgotten over the millenia since interplanetary colonisation began.

As for why humans are so prevelant? There are a few explanations I can think of off the top of my head...

a) Convergant evolution- I don't personally think this could account for it, but I guess it is possible, even if only remotely so. That the same evolutionary pressures existed on several planets leading to several species evolving seperately into organisms of virtual identical genetic makeup, so close so that they were able to interbreed- producing what we now see to be humans.

b) natural selection- maybe humans are better suited to adapting to a wider range of environments.

c) atmospheric conditions- humans evolved to be oxygen breathers. Maybe by chance the inhabitable worlds of the galaxy predominantly are able to support oxygen breathing life forms as opposed to, say, nitrogen or methane or ammonia breathing life forms. So they were simply able to go more places

d) the storytellers perspective- essentially all the stories we have seen have centred around humans. And we have only seen maybe a thousand worlds out of the hundreds of thousands of inhabitable worlds throughout the GFFA. We get told stories about humans because we empathise better with characters most similar to us. Maybe humans aren't the most dominant species, but merely the one all these stories naturally focus on.

 

I was just about to make a thread about this exact topic.

According to George Lucas, the GFFA is a galaxy far far away from Earth, and the story of Star Wars takes place over ten thousand years in the past, so Earth is not the main planet of the humans in the Star Wars galaxy.

I don't believe this has ever been truly addressed in the EU, and it has always bothered me. It seems like there would be at least a few species with equal or nearly equal representation of their species in the galaxy. It seems like GL has tried to emphasize a few species recently in the movies (twi'leks, gran, rodians)

 

I just had a thought. The main planets in the foundation of the Republic were Corellia, Coruscant, Alderaan, and Duro (and maybe Kuat, can't remember) Anyway, humans were the dominant species on all but one of the planets. These were also the planets which had hyperdrive first. That would have given the humans and the Duros more time to expand and colonize worlds, and for many centuries, they would be the ones discovering new worlds, bringing new planets into the republic, and setting up colonies on the newly discovered planets. That would have given the Humans, and to a much much lesser extent, the Duros, the ability to spread their seed to a maximum number of worlds before other species (Arkanians, Gran) were discovered and began their own colonization policies. Perhaps the Humans are the only major species with the determination to spread its species and impose their ways on the maximum number of planets in the galaxy, making them the most fecund and therefore the most prevalent species with ready access to hyperdrive technology.

 

I think as far as the OR/Empire/NR regions go, humans would have to be dominant. The seem to make up the majority of governmental and military positions during the empire, so there must've been an abundance of them.

 

Yes, but the question is WHY?

I think 6-6-6 has got a good explanation.

 

Humans are dominant in the GFFA because while humans are rarely the best adapted for any given condition, they?re rarely the worst adapted. Humans are the GFFA equivalent of cockroaches, the peak of evolution.

 

That's not really true Snarf. There have been several actual historical events where the minority has ruled over the majority. In the 1950s the White minority population ruled over a Black majority population in several areas of Africa.

I do think that humans are more dominant in the GFFA. I think it has to do with the initial number of planets colonized by humans. It seems to me, that the more areas of avaible space for a species to populate, then the greater chance for them to populate. Thus there are more lizards on a 2 mile island than on a 1 kilometer island.

 

Sorry, I didn't mean just cause they were in charge there were more of them, what I mean is by all appearances they are in the majority. I really like 666's idea in his post about our POV being humans, I just haven't seen any evidence of this at all.

 

I do find it curious that both Anakin Skywalker and Emperor Palpatine were human.

 

I do find it curious that both Anakin Skywalker and Emperor Palpatine were human.

GL probably used humans for the sake of storytelling, since the audience probably wouldn't feel anything for a Rodian.

Humans are not well-suited to many enviroments, at least not without clothing. Humans can only survive a few days without water, and a few weeks without food. Humans are weaklings compared to any other primate, and a lot of other animals on Earth. The one thing that makes humans able to survive is our creative ability. There are many other sentient species in the GFFA, and I see no reason why many other beings shouldn't be as equally successful in the GFFA.

 

Gandolf: A lot of the Sith and Dark Jedi have been human.

Exar Kun, Ulic Qel-Droma, Darth Bane, Count Dooku, Darth Vader, the Emperor, Lumyia, and many more. The only alien Sith I can think of right now is Darth Maul.

 

Zoinks!

That sounds about right. Humans love reproductions, almost as bad a rabbits. (What's a rabbit? That's not canon!)

Zoinks! What if humans actually reproduced as much as rabbits (there's that word again!)? There'd be no room for anyone else!

Zoinks!

~ Hethrir

 

reminds me of eurocentricism.

 

>>The only alien Sith I can think of right now is Darth Maul.<<

Naga Sadow's the only other one I can think of besides Kopecz the Twi'lek from Jedi vs. Sith, but I'm not sure if he was a real Sith or merely a cultist or acolyte.

 

Have you ever studied population & reproductive abilities of the human race?

 

For the original movie: BUDGET
After that: TRADITION

I agree with the "eurocentric" theory. Since we are human it is easier for us to relate to human characters. The "other" franchise [face_shocked] follows the same formula. Lots of "secondary" aliens, but the main characters are predominantly human.


That's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

 

"takes place over ten thousand years in the past"

When and where did he say that number?

"What's a rabbit? That's not canon"

Silly Rabbit Nebula from lando books. Jaxxon the big green bunny rabbit is from there. So ya rabbits are canon.

 

"Exar Kun, Ulic Qel-Droma, Darth Bane, Count Dooku, Darth Vader, the Emperor, Lumyia, and many more. The only alien Sith I can think of right now is Darth Maul."

ahm...Naga Sadow, Ludo Kresh and all the other true Sith... Sith were a species, ya know? *fg*

only after their defeat 5k years before Yavin the Sith became a sect...

 

Well. Why are there so many human beings on the Earth...

And if the human beings developed the hyperspace ability first, then ofcourse they would dominate the galaxy.

Let's say they start with one planet. Then they take another one. Now they have two planets. Then each planet take another planet again. Now they have 4 planets. Then every planets take a new planet...

see what i mean.

 

Surely in Star Wars humans reproduce like sand bunnies.

Good ol' Planet of Twilight.

 

I have always wondered why there were so many humnas. I mean the movie there don't seem to be alot of human, humnas are the key people but there are so many races and all over I wish the EU was like that. It seem like out of all the Jedi in the movies there is only like %10 human. That is why I like Star Wars so much cause all of the races but EU has no such thing, it would just be nice to see more aliens in EU IMO

 

because they are dominant on more planets than any others - also the most advanced planet, corellia hapan cluster to name a few,