Was it ever explained where humans originate from in Star Wars? Are humans from Corellia, Alderan, Tatooine from one common place originally?
Humans in Star Wars?
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Short answer: Coruscant, maybe.
By the time of the Star Wars movies, humans have been a spacefaring race for 25,000+ years, so no one really knows anymore, basically.
I guess they don't have very good historians and anthropologists in Star Wars.
Short answer: Coruscant, maybe.
By the time of the Star Wars movies, humans have been a spacefaring race for 25,000+ years, so no one really knows anymore, basically.
I guess they don't have very good historians and anthropologists in Star Wars.
Thanks it's always something that bugged me. I'm reading Outbound Flight and it just got me thinking?
Interesting tidbits of plot in the cancelled novel "Alien Exodus" can be found at http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Alien_Exodus - talks about a potential story of how humans found themselves in a galaxy far far a way a long time ago.
^ I like that explanation very much, even though it does suffer from Small Universe Syndrome.
I remember when Star wars used to be a fun sweeping adventure.. where the gaps in its plausibility where made up for by awesome characters, the sweeping romance, and great production design. These issues never used to matter, no more than "how does a ship like the falcon get into space." It used to all be convincing because of its sweeping scope.
The entire Star Wars EU suffers from Small Universe Syndrome.
Not that I really have a problem with that, most fictional universes found in entertainment do, Trek included.
Trying to work American Graffiti into it was definitely a stretch. 
Hmmm. 25th century earth? I thought this was long, long ago. That author would have been better to use a Battlestar Galactica connection instead of a Buck Rogers one.
About that...
There is a time warp involved. As the humans escape Earth - Earth of THX 1138, not Buck Rogers - they are thrown back in time and end up in a galaxy far, far away.
Fortunately, Alien Exodus was never actually written. I was never a fan of the concept. Star Wars is, above all, a fantasy, and giving it a connection to the real world (albeit a fictional futuristic version of it) doesn't mesh well with that idea, IMO. I like that the humans' origins are largely unknown and lost to time. They've spread themselves so far out across the galaxy and have become so ubiquitous that it doesn't really matter where they originally came from.
Agreed. We don't need to hear the details about everything, as sometimes it just works better not knowing details. Most of the time, it can actually weaken a story by demystifying something, such as the midichlorians. We never needed to hear the origins of the force.
Humans are from earth, Star Wars takes place in the future, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...." is meaningless. That has been my theory for years, it's pretty simple if you ignore a stupid sentence that was only added to the start of the movie because Star Wars is a fairy tale in space.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard...
It's like you missed the whole point of the film.. natch!
Earth, probably. We don't know where the notional author of the opening narrations is or when when they're written, except that it's supposedly much later and in a faraway galaxy.
Then you haven't heard much.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure nothing is less important than when and where the story takes place, so how did I miss "the whole point"?
Gag. That story was taking small universe syndrome to extremes. I can never stand that crap. Also, they shouldn't have to be from Earth just because they look like earthlings. Superman's not from Earth. He looks human, but nobody has a problem with that. And Star Trek never has problems with human-looking aliens so why should Star Wars?
Even if you don't like Alien Exodus (I do), it is still entirely possible to believe that these really are humans in SW and that Earth is still their ancestral homeland.
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away"? From whose point of view? Doesn't have to be ours. It's just a text crawl that means very little. Every moment of time is, from SOMEBODY's pov, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
As for the other two points:
- In Trek, the only reason most of the alien races looked human is because there was very little budget for makeup. Special cases, like Andorians and Tellarites, are just that - a special case. Most aliens looked completely human because there was no money available to make them look otherwise. Obviously in a major feature film series like SW, there will be more money for makeup budgets. They could afford to make Han, Leia, Luke, etc. look alien if they wanted to. If the makeup artists COULD make them look other than human, but chose not to, then why not simply believe they really ARE human?
- Superman needs to blend in. He always has. He has to masquerade. From the get-go there was a need to actively make him look human because he had to live out his life on Earth with a secret identity. So that's why the comic artists didn't make him look alien. Again, this does not apply in SW, because Earth is never a SW setting, thus there's no need for SW characters to blend in with it.
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away"? From whose point of view? Doesn't have to be ours. It's just a text crawl that means very little. Every moment of time is, from SOMEBODY's pov, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
As for the other two points:
- In Trek, the only reason most of the alien races looked human is because there was very little budget for makeup. Special cases, like Andorians and Tellarites, are just that - a special case. Most aliens looked completely human because there was no money available to make them look otherwise. Obviously in a major feature film series like SW, there will be more money for makeup budgets. They could afford to make Han, Leia, Luke, etc. look alien if they wanted to. If the makeup artists COULD make them look other than human, but chose not to, then why not simply believe they really ARE human?
- Superman needs to blend in. He always has. He has to masquerade. From the get-go there was a need to actively make him look human because he had to live out his life on Earth with a secret identity. So that's why the comic artists didn't make him look alien. Again, this does not apply in SW, because Earth is never a SW setting, thus there's no need for SW characters to blend in with it.
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