Earth in Star Wars

[Mamatried]

I have always wondered where Earth is in Star Wars.

I have read some references to earth all of them indirectly, unless it is about "star tours" that do have earth as a destination.
Earth in "Fath" Sector

I however when i child always pictured star wars to be a long time ago, aka in the very distant past and to me Dagobah was always "my earth" in the saga, a prehistoric earth.

I was wondering if anyone else in the galaxy had any thoughts or information on earth.

I also know of cancelled books that do actually take the saga to a 25th century earth.

[Pel]

Pretty sure it's in another galaxy far, far away. Possbily Andromeda, that place is huge!
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[Sutehp]

[Darklighter79]

[Whill]

[Mamatried]

I think this thread is looking great.
I love hearing all your thoughts on star wars.

As to human origins in star wars, the "officiaal" is the zell and corellia and all that. I think that the orgins if important should be decided table to table unless a canon comes around.

That being said, i actually see no issues with humans being extremely old a race in SW, and maybe even comming from "our" earth, either in the past being taken by alienes in a large enough number (rakata)
Or that humans branced out and left earth, maybe left a dying earth.
Seeing many near human races many are "said to have developed" from baseline humans into the "new" specis, looking t the "old republic" and that many of the samespecies exixted then, and have had time to develop theit uniqueness, makes think human were around for a very very very long time

I always found earth's place in star wars to be facinatingly vague

[Zarn]

Personally, I'm with Whill. His suggested tie-in to our Earth is clear and well thought out. We're way too intrinsically linked to this world to have any other origin world - or at the very least, we have come from the same panspermic kernel as pretty much anything else on this planet.

With the possible exception of bananas, given one of their mythological origin stories, and maybe the Dogon people interacted with someone though it is likely that there's a causality problem with their apparent advanced knowledge.

[Mamatried]

[CRMcNeill]

If Earth did exist in the SWU, it would have to be some sort of weird alternate universe where Star Wars was never conceived of by George Lucas, and never became such a major part of both pop and sci-fi culture.

I'm okay with "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." actually being some alternate dimension of some form of multi-verse. There isn't really a need for the two to overlap.
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[Pel]

Given that we're in the "Mid Rim" region of the Milky Way, how did we get to the Core Worlds?

I'd say it's more consistent to say we're descended from Star Wars explorers who colonized Earth long ago from their home galaxy. Kind of like what they ended up doing with Galactica at the very end, except we're not all Cylons. Well, I'm not anyway. 8)
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[Mamatried]

[CRMcNeill]

But that's a crossover of two fictional universes, and the IJ universe predated Star Wars by several decades (early to mid 20th century). Once that happens, you have to start asking exactly which fictional version of Earth you're crossing-over with the SWU, or if you're talking about the actual, real-life Earth.
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"No set of rules can cover every situation. It's expected that you will make up new rules to suit the needs of your game." - The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, 2R&E, pg. 69, WEG, 1996.

The CRMcNeill Stat/Rule Index

[Whill]

[garhkal]

[Mamatried]