Visit scenic Nar Shaddaa in Star Wars: The Old Republic

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Teddy Bear Junction?

@SpiderKnives ...omg tl;dr

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cool story bro

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SCIENCE!!!

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Damn it, that's what I was going to post.

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I didn't read your post but does it explain why some planets are only cities on the entire landscape? It has something to do with the gravatational pull of Omega XII, right?

@SpiderKnives The problem is that your argument says that such uniform planets shouldn't have life. These ones do.

@SpiderKnives This still doesn't remove the problems with planet-wide cities.

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HA! You spelled "identical" incorrectly. You're clearly an idiot!*

*Please note that this reply is made in jest as I realize that anyone can make a simple typo and Spiderknives clearly is not an idiot. Thanks :)

@SpiderKnives You know, this always bothered me about Star Wars in particular. It's good to finally have an answer that at least souns logical and scientiffic. I like how in Mass Effect they tried to disguise the "planetwide city" by mentioning that you were just visiting an area of interest in the planet.

@The Nth Doctor well, planet-wide cities are not exactly a natural\scientific phenomenon, so I don't understand what's the point of mentioning this. I guess those planets should have a significance in galactic affairs and a fairly even climate all around for populating an entire planet.

@PlayLoud well, Mars is a desert planet (albeit red). It may be too cold to be habitable, but warmth requires from an ozone (a layer of insolation), and ozone requires oxygen, oxygen needs to be separated from the atmosphere, which can be accomplished if you had proper bacteria, which implies having microscopic life on the planet, which rely on water, which may be the reason uncle Owen runs a moisture farm. Terramorphing Mars is considered theoretically possible, although lengthy with modern tech.

As for Mustafar, Earth used to be an entirely volcanic planet, as do all young planets before they finish materializing and developing a rudimentary atmosphere which balances temperatures by either keeping heat out or keeping it in.

As for Camino... well, Europa is an entirely icy moon, if it were to ever end up closer to the sun it may very well be an ocean moon.

Only real problem is forest and swamp planets, because they imply uniform natural life, which evolve depending on very specific conditions and resources, such that they behave uniformly in what may be a very diverse climate (one needed to support known life), with different resources (hard to imagine a planet where metals, elements, acids, alkalines etc. are uniformly distributed on its surface, all of whom affect plant life. Also hard to imagine a planet where it rains evenly all over the surface). That always kinda bothered me as a kid. That and the fact you've got forest moons with lush atmospheres and probably a kajillion natural resources to support life, yet people opt for Tattooine for whatever reason.

@SpiderKnives The problem is with thermodynamics. The heat generated by just the living bodies on a planet wide city should be enough to melt the crust.