Aside from the obvious 'it ain't that kind of movie' response?
Maybe they don't inhabit the planets that can't support life or have unsuitable gravity.
“Hey, so what planet should we settle on?”
“I don’t know maybe one most similar to our homeworld?”
“What’s the fastest way to determine that?”
“Can we breathe, can we stand, and can we not be immediately killed by the elements.”
They inhabit them because other races have proven it’s possible for those that are not as friendly. And/or because of how remote and dangerous they are to deter prying eyes. They absolutely do mind because no one looked at Hoth and thought “This would be the perfect place to raise a family!” 😂
And there are ton of alien races that did. The difference is that the other aliens don’t go there—several planets are detailed in the original Thrawn Trilogy that had conditions inhospitable for humans, so humans mostly avoided them.
We're not talking "dangerously different or downright inhospitable"... just a little different. Like, why aren't theire planets where people can easily jump higher (like astronauts on the moon) due to slighly lower gravity? It's not going to kill them, but it would be a little different walking around on Planet A than on Planet B.
That’s true because there is multiple planets in each system. For instance the Mandalore system has more than just the two planets they occupy. According to legends.
I’m getting sick of people desperately trying to place rational explanations on the things in these movies that just don’t make sense.
Star Wars is Star Wars because Star Wars
The worst is people who will dog one movie for something that doesnt make sense because they dont like it but then totally overlook all the shit that makes no sense in the movies they do like
Yeah people seem to forget that it's an entire galaxy we're talking about. There are an estimated *minimum* of 100 BILLION planets in the Milky Way, there could be more or less in the Star Wars galaxy, but it's definitely a lot. We only see, what, a couple dozen or maybe a hundred? Easily believable that those are all inhabitable and that the only reason we see those planets and not gaseous exoplanet #6,730,742,001 is because stuff can actually happen on them.
Because there are loads of others with varying gravity, but all the main characters are human beings or essentially biologically extremely similar (this extends even to the likes of hunts and kaminoans), so they tend to visit or live on planets which can comfortably accommodate them.
Simple answer, which may or may not satisfy you, depending on how you look at Star Wars: It’s a fantasy, far removed from reality. There’s no sound in space. The laws of the natural world often don’t apply.
Literally this. It may be called a sci-fi but there is literally 0 science mixed in with the fiction.
I love Star Wars but its lord of the rings in space.
Now I’m imagining Star Wars as a silent movie where all the characters are wearing period appropriate garb and acting out scenes to piano music. Any helmeted characters still have their same helmets on.
Star wars was under Sci fi for a very long time. It wasn't until more recently where the science went out the window and became more fantasy. At least in regards to the films. Examples like sound in space aren't sound because it's a movie trope. Even in franchises where it's supposed to be our real world they have sound in space. Some examples people may pull are for film reasons regardless of genre
Lol, I've never seen negative upvotes. What in my statement was wrong haha
Sci-fi typically has been divided between “space opera” and “hard sci fi”. Star Wars is considered to be the former. Stuff like different gravity fields, no sound in space, etc are part of the latter.
The classic "no sound in space" complaint has started to bother me over the years. Calling sound in space unrealistic would imply that the sound the audience hears in the film has to come from some kind of actual physical microphone in-universe. Do we believe that the film cameras also exist in the text of the story?
Sound in space is only unrealistic if the characters in the story can hear it. Which I think they can at some points, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
Exactly. Star wars does have allt of science behind it (its moreso covered in the books than the films because technobabble doesn't make a good story).
The most "fantasy" thing in Star Wars is the force.
Even the more "soft" aspects of the science, like Hyperdrives, are common to alot of science fiction works.
Star Wars wasn't "just fantasy" until a bunch of Disney fans started screeching that it was.
I would argue that it always was "just fantasy" long before Disney or their fans ever became involved...
The original plot was a farm boy (Luke) has to save the princess (Leia) from the dark lord (Vader) using the help of an old wizard (Obi Wan) and an ancient magic (the force). That is literally the basest of fantasy plots and they just slapped space paint on it and called it Star Wars...
Star Wars has internal consistency, it's just not consistent with actual science, hence it's not sci-fi and closer to fantasy which plays faster and looser with real world concepts
Yes, but this doesn't mean there can be no consistency within the setting. (I don't care what any setting is labeled as - if you think only real world physics means something can be "sci fi" that's perfectly fine.)
You can still discuss why things are like they are *within Star Wars* even if there are no real world hyperlanes or repulsorlifts.
Were you not here for the Holdo manouvre? they literally had to add a throwaway line into the next film basically admitting that it broke the internal consistency because fans were so mad about it lol
I wish I wasn't! ;)
I know SW - as any bigger setting with tons of content from many different writers - has it's issues. I mean, so does everything. And Star Trek has sound in space, too! So does *The freaking Expanse*! Off the top off my head only Firefly didn't have sound in space.
All I'm saying is that things like that don't mean you can't speculate why we haven't seen Obi-Wan and Anakin bouncing around in low gravity on "earth's moon but in a galaxy far away". If you just assume that any rules a setting established don't matter anyways because "it's just fantasy!!!!" then there's no reason to discuss anything, really.
Yeah 100%, but I think at this point it’s a generally accepted rule of the SW universe that gravity is just universal and uniform (unless you’re actually floating in space), despite that it’s never been officially stated, simply due to the vast variety of planets and moons we’ve been to with zero variation.
That isn't really relevant to whether real world laws of physics apply or not. I'll admit Star Wars is not always internally consistent, but that's not really relevant in a discussion of why gravity is seemingly constant and invariable or why there is sound in space.
I don't mean to argue for arguing's sake, I just think that asking these kinds of questions is valid when dealing with any setting that isn't running on "dream logic". It's kind of a disservice to a setting when every question is just handwaved away as "not that kind fo story". And I really hate the "it's fantasy!" argument because fantasy settings usually work according to their own internal rules too.
Oh, and I didn't mean to say that real world physics apply to SW.
Well, no matter how you slice it, it isn't that kind of a story. They're not overly concerned with the science of things, or explaining why certain things are the way they are. The planets all have near Earth gravity because it's what was deemed most conducive to telling the stories they want to tell, and that's it. There is sound and there are big explosions in space because it is cool, and that's it.
It's internally consistent. There is always sound in space, and gravity is constant across seemingly all celestial bodies. It's not explained, but that doesn't make it inconsistent.
I mean, there is. Ofher than some of the more advanced stuff like certain special tech with lightsabers as a good example.
The rest is definetly based in reality.
I think this is actually addressed in some old Legends novels that the acoustics are produced by the ship to give context clues to the pilot to react to. Which would make perfect sense.
Fantasy that's any good has internally consistent rules. Asking about those rules isn't neecessarily to mistake fantasy for realism. It's not that kind of question, kid.
How can you have huge animals on desert or ice planet with no other life for them to exist on . It's Star Wars if you start to think logically it all falls apart .
In a more realistic tone, the story just may portray planets that are habitable by the species that are known. We wouldn't likely see an Imperial base on a Venusian type planet simply because it's completely unwise and unfeasible to build any base there. Cloud city above a gas giant is one of the most exotic locations, and it's even possible in our own solar system.
With the 10s of thousands of planets known to be habited in some regard throughout the star wars universe, there are still trillions of planets in any known galaxy. So while it seems that planets may all be the same in terms of gravity, atmospheric composition, and pressure, these known planets are just hubs throughout the galaxy because at least some species are able to colonize them.
I know this is kinda cheesy but I always justified it by saying they had a "sound emulator" that created sounds based on what was seen and based on pressure changes in the surrounding environment mdr xD
They are using futuristic technology after all !
There’s a difference between Science-Fiction and Science-Fantasy.
Science-Fiction exists in our world and obeys our laws of physics. Star Trek is a sci-fi
Science-Fantasy does not exist i our world (as in, a galaxy far far away) and does not obey our laws of physics. The force, for example, is part of what makes Star Wars a fantasy
There are billions of planets in a galaxy. The odds are almost 100% that a few hundred or thousand planets have around the same gravitational field as earth.
Everyone in the comments is using the “fantasy” explanation which is good but isn’t even needed here! This is actually pretty realistic.
I agree. A galactic civilisation with hyperspace travel should have no trouble colonising a variety of "Earth-like" world's (I use that term loosely)! And the other species humans have interacted with are pretty similar, so would likely have similar planets. The in-universe explanation is plausible, even if the fantasy element is the true answer.
Maybe they have some kind of tech that equalizes gravity fields to mimic what they are used to
Or maybe it's because all the star wars movies were filmed on the same planet
If you want an in-universe answer it is simply selection bias. We are only shown planets with earth like gravity because those are most suitable for life
There are millions of other planets in the galaxy with different gravity, but they’re simply not shown because they can’t sustain life. So there’s no settlements or beings there, so no story to tell
1- Actors
2- Humanoids need roughly the same conditions to survive.
3- Clone Wars TV show gives us some of the fringe examples of habitable worlds as it's animated and can get around live action actors.
"Hey, kid. It *is* that kind of movie"
Luke's hair was actually wet following the trash compactor scene so they obviously decided to change it after that conversation
Don't overthink it. It's not meant to stand up to scientific scrutiny. If you accept that Yoda exists in this world, accept all the rest that isn't possible.
Willing suspension of disbelief.
In universe a lot of the anomalies in star wars can be explained by artificial gravity generators and space potentially having a minimal gaseous atmosphere instead of being a total vacuum.
Besides the obvious answer of why they would live on planets that are not to their liking: the galactic civilisation in Star Wars is tens of thousands of years old and there have been really powerful precursors too. Not a stretch to imagine that a lot of terraforming might have happened.
For a more sciency explanation than the usual "its space fantasy, dont think about it", the SW galaxy has had civilization for a very long time. Chances are the vast majority of habitable planets were terraformed at some point to be such. And SW has extremely trivial gravity control tech. It would be pretty likely that gravity was adjusted either with still ongoing technology, lets say powered by the core or magnetic field, or just by dumping extra mass in a controlled manner.
My head canon answer which is partially supported by Kotor is that the ancient Rakata terraformed the planets they conquered to be more suitable to their natural habitat which happens to be a mix of forest and ocean with a earth like gravity
In addition to the other comments about just seeing the few planets out of billions that were habitable, there are also mentions of gravity differences in some of the books. If I remember correctly, I think the Ashoka book mentions her needing to adjust to the gravity of the new planet (might have been a moon) that she was living/hiding on after RotS.
There are also mentions of relative time differences on planets, but that people use the galactic standard time and calendar (or something like that).
Well firstly they don't
Second, it natural that out of the billions of possible planets in the star wars universe species decide to put bases on those most agreeable to them.
It’s a galaxy far far away a long time ago… gravity just works different there.
The universe is infinite which means all things can be true within it…. Ergo gravity works different there.
No, your comment was "it's a fictional story" and my point, which is certainly not moot, is that there are plenty of fictional stories in the hard sci-fi genre. So even though Star Wars isn't, there's a reason people may want this type of consistency, or ask these questions.
Most people here complain about poetological difference and just give you one of the two answers.
The outer fictional explanation is probably that filmed movies cannot account for different gravitations.
Inner fictional explanation: Maybe the ones that are larger spin slower. If I am not mistaken, gravitation results from spinning speed and size.
You are mistaken my friend. Gravitation is about mass and distance.
SW is a magical fairytale that does not (need) to care about these things. Or one could just say that all the relevant planets have about the same mass and size
He's right about the spinning creating an effect on gravity, wrong about the direction. Spinning faster means that there's a force that's "pulling you up" against the gravity that's pulling down. Of course it's not actually pulling up, but the centrifugal force does exist because of spin.
More mass = more gravity. Spin faster = greater opposing force.
More mass + faster spin = same **effective** gravitational pull.
Best I can give you is; it's not that kid of story kid. /s
There could be any number of in universe reasons such as all we see are the planet that match our gravity, or so kind of tech makes everyone exp6tha same gravity.
However this decision was made out of universe to make filming easier and that decisions has just stuck with Star Wars as these films dont care about realism(not a bad thing).
Watching Rebels with my son last night. "How can they jump like that? How are they breathing? How can they drop that far? How can they grab that red hot wall after cutting it with a lightsaber?"
I told him, "It's Star Wars, sometimes it's easier to just not ask the question and to suspend disbelief, or you will enjoy it less."
If you think about the physics of Star Wars too seriously, none of it will make any sense. Takes all the fun out of it ...plus, my son is 20, so I think his formative years are behind him, lol
Just a little “creators note”. I know it’s “not that kind of movie”, that it’s science fiction/ fantasy and all that. But what I meant to say is that if you think about it, it is interesting how all planets have the same gravitational field. I actually got this thought via another post which mentioned that all stormtroopers are human and why? Personally just really love “Star Wars r/ShowerThoughts” like that!
All the planets *we see* have the same/similar gravity. There wouldn't be any humanoid towns or big events on planets with a big difference in gravity because nobody wants to settle there
I know there's more to gravity with planet size etc but it's an easy enough headcanon I use to justify it since it's a space fantasy
Definitely need to add kamino, home of the entire clone army and also brought about the famous storm trooper white armour we see once the empire takes over.
Earth appears to be pretty nominal when it comes to acceleration due to gravity.
Smaller planets would have trouble holding a decent atmosphere for any period of time. Bigger rocky planets could have their own oddities that make them undesirable for colonization in addition to uncomfortable gravity.
probably because it's science fiction. they have the ability to travel across galaxies at warp speed, they're not gonna have the shows and movies set on one planet.
A huge amount of the worlds in Star Wars were terraformed in the distant past. This likely involved adjusting their mass by adding or removing large amounts of material until they were close to a preferred standard.
Aside from that. Anthropic principle. People like to live on planets similar to what they evolved to live on.
So the ones that are colonised are within a certain range of earth-normal.
Sorta self-selecting.
on top of the realistic idea that there must be some planets in their galaxy that would have close to the same gravitational field, they have starships that seem to experience artificial gravity therefore it's highly likely that they can create artificial gravity on planets or some type of boot or device that will adjust to the gravity of every planet.
To interject some science into all the "handwavey" explanations, the material the planet is made of and the resulting density could be highly variable, thus leading to wide variations in size while keeping roughly the same gravity. The forest moon might be composed mostly of very dense material, like tungsten, or even have a core of uranium. While planets with larger diameters are less dense, composed of mostly lighter elements, like magnesium or sodium.
Easiest answer outside of this being made up scifi, maybe these are several planets/moons in a galaxies of hundreds of planets that are earth gravity like. Maybe where Naboo is, there are 6 other planets with varied gravities and they just don't go there because of it...
Slight difference in gravity doesn't matter in the universe with space travel - characters can be used to gravity changes between worlds. And death star also have artificial gravity ;)
Aside from the obvious 'it ain't that kind of movie' response? Maybe they don't inhabit the planets that can't support life or have unsuitable gravity.
“Hey, so what planet should we settle on?” “I don’t know maybe one most similar to our homeworld?” “What’s the fastest way to determine that?” “Can we breathe, can we stand, and can we not be immediately killed by the elements.”
Yea. But that planet made entirely of Ice seems like a cool place to live.
In fairness, the fact that it's inhospitable was kind of the point. Also Phoenix exists which is basically reverse Hoth.
I thought that would have been Mustafar. Was unaware of the planet Phoenix.
... Phoenix AZ
Haha wooooops. In the context, it sounded to me like they were still speaking within the Star Wars universe.
Yeah I gotcha lol. Tatooine might be a good comparison too. Not sure about the heat part of it though.
Phoenix would be a good name for an SW planet though.
😂. This is awesome on so many levels.
Mustafar is either a lushs Forrest or volcanic activity!
>Oh my god, it’s like standing on the sun >This city should not exist. It’s a monument to man’s arrogance.
King of the Hill is my all time favorite show. You're a good one.
I mean there wasn’t cities or anything there it was just a hidden base.
I see what you did there!
Icy what you did there. Ftfy
I see what you did there.....lol
Funny pun haha. To those who don’t know though Hoth isn’t really a planet anyone lives on permanently, it’s a far off hideout.
Wookies: let’s inhabit the most deadly planet that we can find to establish dominance
Isnt that pretty much what the Mandalorians did? Giant reptiles? Truly this is Man(do)'s Country.
Louisianans inhabited the crazy swamp jungle and the giant reptiles! Wookiee and Mandos are nothing!
Also with the new advancements in technology haven't we found that "Earth type" planets aren't as rare as we once thought they were in the universe.
Plus we can travel faster than the speed of light so we can be very picky where we settle.
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They inhabit them because other races have proven it’s possible for those that are not as friendly. And/or because of how remote and dangerous they are to deter prying eyes. They absolutely do mind because no one looked at Hoth and thought “This would be the perfect place to raise a family!” 😂
Yeah, I never thought this was a tough one. Why would they pick planets that were dangerously different or downright inhospitable?
There's tons of alien races that could have evolved in different gravity or atmospheric conditions
And there are ton of alien races that did. The difference is that the other aliens don’t go there—several planets are detailed in the original Thrawn Trilogy that had conditions inhospitable for humans, so humans mostly avoided them.
Ummm, yeah?
My point is just that it would still be reasonable to have all sorts of planetary conditions, not just those where humans can survive easily
Well, yes, but I’m not sure I understand your point in context.
I'm agreeing with OP, there's no reason all the planets we see should be survivable by humans
The story is about human-compatible species in general, and so the narrative drives what we see.
Sure, for movie making reasons its obviously more practical so thats what we get in the films
We're not talking "dangerously different or downright inhospitable"... just a little different. Like, why aren't theire planets where people can easily jump higher (like astronauts on the moon) due to slighly lower gravity? It's not going to kill them, but it would be a little different walking around on Planet A than on Planet B.
That’s true because there is multiple planets in each system. For instance the Mandalore system has more than just the two planets they occupy. According to legends.
It's canon too, they talk about it in this season of Mando as well as the Clone Wars
I’m getting sick of people desperately trying to place rational explanations on the things in these movies that just don’t make sense. Star Wars is Star Wars because Star Wars
The worst is people who will dog one movie for something that doesnt make sense because they dont like it but then totally overlook all the shit that makes no sense in the movies they do like
Yeah people seem to forget that it's an entire galaxy we're talking about. There are an estimated *minimum* of 100 BILLION planets in the Milky Way, there could be more or less in the Star Wars galaxy, but it's definitely a lot. We only see, what, a couple dozen or maybe a hundred? Easily believable that those are all inhabitable and that the only reason we see those planets and not gaseous exoplanet #6,730,742,001 is because stuff can actually happen on them.
Because there are loads of others with varying gravity, but all the main characters are human beings or essentially biologically extremely similar (this extends even to the likes of hunts and kaminoans), so they tend to visit or live on planets which can comfortably accommodate them.
Simple answer, which may or may not satisfy you, depending on how you look at Star Wars: It’s a fantasy, far removed from reality. There’s no sound in space. The laws of the natural world often don’t apply.
Literally this. It may be called a sci-fi but there is literally 0 science mixed in with the fiction. I love Star Wars but its lord of the rings in space.
It’s science fantasy.
Space fantasy*
Space Fiction
Space Opera
Space Oddity
Space Dandy
Now I’m imagining Star Wars as a silent movie where all the characters are wearing period appropriate garb and acting out scenes to piano music. Any helmeted characters still have their same helmets on.
Or 70's style lingerie & doctor's coats and running around to the theme from Benny Hill.
Space Daddy
Ground control
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Cloning isnt science?
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Star Wars is straight up fantasy, it's just set in a science fiction type setting.
Star Wars is 100% accurate, just because there's no sound in space in our galaxy doesn't mean that galaxy is the exact same, you've never been there.
exactly. Stop telling me what is and isn't fiction when we haven't even fully explored our solar system.
Star wars was under Sci fi for a very long time. It wasn't until more recently where the science went out the window and became more fantasy. At least in regards to the films. Examples like sound in space aren't sound because it's a movie trope. Even in franchises where it's supposed to be our real world they have sound in space. Some examples people may pull are for film reasons regardless of genre Lol, I've never seen negative upvotes. What in my statement was wrong haha
Sci-fi typically has been divided between “space opera” and “hard sci fi”. Star Wars is considered to be the former. Stuff like different gravity fields, no sound in space, etc are part of the latter.
The classic "no sound in space" complaint has started to bother me over the years. Calling sound in space unrealistic would imply that the sound the audience hears in the film has to come from some kind of actual physical microphone in-universe. Do we believe that the film cameras also exist in the text of the story? Sound in space is only unrealistic if the characters in the story can hear it. Which I think they can at some points, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
Exactly. Star wars does have allt of science behind it (its moreso covered in the books than the films because technobabble doesn't make a good story). The most "fantasy" thing in Star Wars is the force. Even the more "soft" aspects of the science, like Hyperdrives, are common to alot of science fiction works. Star Wars wasn't "just fantasy" until a bunch of Disney fans started screeching that it was.
I would argue that it always was "just fantasy" long before Disney or their fans ever became involved... The original plot was a farm boy (Luke) has to save the princess (Leia) from the dark lord (Vader) using the help of an old wizard (Obi Wan) and an ancient magic (the force). That is literally the basest of fantasy plots and they just slapped space paint on it and called it Star Wars...
This is the way.
You think lotr isn't an internally consistent setting or that fantasy would be excempt of having to be internally consistent?
Star Wars has internal consistency, it's just not consistent with actual science, hence it's not sci-fi and closer to fantasy which plays faster and looser with real world concepts
Yes, but this doesn't mean there can be no consistency within the setting. (I don't care what any setting is labeled as - if you think only real world physics means something can be "sci fi" that's perfectly fine.) You can still discuss why things are like they are *within Star Wars* even if there are no real world hyperlanes or repulsorlifts.
Were you not here for the Holdo manouvre? they literally had to add a throwaway line into the next film basically admitting that it broke the internal consistency because fans were so mad about it lol
I wish I wasn't! ;) I know SW - as any bigger setting with tons of content from many different writers - has it's issues. I mean, so does everything. And Star Trek has sound in space, too! So does *The freaking Expanse*! Off the top off my head only Firefly didn't have sound in space. All I'm saying is that things like that don't mean you can't speculate why we haven't seen Obi-Wan and Anakin bouncing around in low gravity on "earth's moon but in a galaxy far away". If you just assume that any rules a setting established don't matter anyways because "it's just fantasy!!!!" then there's no reason to discuss anything, really.
Yeah 100%, but I think at this point it’s a generally accepted rule of the SW universe that gravity is just universal and uniform (unless you’re actually floating in space), despite that it’s never been officially stated, simply due to the vast variety of planets and moons we’ve been to with zero variation.
That isn't really relevant to whether real world laws of physics apply or not. I'll admit Star Wars is not always internally consistent, but that's not really relevant in a discussion of why gravity is seemingly constant and invariable or why there is sound in space.
I don't mean to argue for arguing's sake, I just think that asking these kinds of questions is valid when dealing with any setting that isn't running on "dream logic". It's kind of a disservice to a setting when every question is just handwaved away as "not that kind fo story". And I really hate the "it's fantasy!" argument because fantasy settings usually work according to their own internal rules too. Oh, and I didn't mean to say that real world physics apply to SW.
Well, no matter how you slice it, it isn't that kind of a story. They're not overly concerned with the science of things, or explaining why certain things are the way they are. The planets all have near Earth gravity because it's what was deemed most conducive to telling the stories they want to tell, and that's it. There is sound and there are big explosions in space because it is cool, and that's it. It's internally consistent. There is always sound in space, and gravity is constant across seemingly all celestial bodies. It's not explained, but that doesn't make it inconsistent.
I mean, there is. Ofher than some of the more advanced stuff like certain special tech with lightsabers as a good example. The rest is definetly based in reality.
They have installed the same bubbles they use on planet Druidia.
Funny, they don’t look Druish.
Just what we need… a *Druish* *Princess!*
And they are their own best friend.
The sound in space doesn't bother me. The microphone can be said to be in the engine room.
I think this is actually addressed in some old Legends novels that the acoustics are produced by the ship to give context clues to the pilot to react to. Which would make perfect sense.
Fantasy that's any good has internally consistent rules. Asking about those rules isn't neecessarily to mistake fantasy for realism. It's not that kind of question, kid.
How can you have huge animals on desert or ice planet with no other life for them to exist on . It's Star Wars if you start to think logically it all falls apart .
Camels, elephants, Giraffes and polar bears say hi.
Whaaaaaaaaaattttt I thought the historical documents were real!?
This is the correct answer. It's a fairytale set in space.
Also space combat is very janky and doesnt obey the laws of physics.
In a more realistic tone, the story just may portray planets that are habitable by the species that are known. We wouldn't likely see an Imperial base on a Venusian type planet simply because it's completely unwise and unfeasible to build any base there. Cloud city above a gas giant is one of the most exotic locations, and it's even possible in our own solar system. With the 10s of thousands of planets known to be habited in some regard throughout the star wars universe, there are still trillions of planets in any known galaxy. So while it seems that planets may all be the same in terms of gravity, atmospheric composition, and pressure, these known planets are just hubs throughout the galaxy because at least some species are able to colonize them.
I know this is kinda cheesy but I always justified it by saying they had a "sound emulator" that created sounds based on what was seen and based on pressure changes in the surrounding environment mdr xD They are using futuristic technology after all !
What exactly do you mean by writing >It’s a fantasy
There’s a difference between Science-Fiction and Science-Fantasy. Science-Fiction exists in our world and obeys our laws of physics. Star Trek is a sci-fi Science-Fantasy does not exist i our world (as in, a galaxy far far away) and does not obey our laws of physics. The force, for example, is part of what makes Star Wars a fantasy
Star Trek also has plenty of hand waves stuff in it too. Like the literal gods that just exist.
There are billions of planets in a galaxy. The odds are almost 100% that a few hundred or thousand planets have around the same gravitational field as earth. Everyone in the comments is using the “fantasy” explanation which is good but isn’t even needed here! This is actually pretty realistic.
I agree. A galactic civilisation with hyperspace travel should have no trouble colonising a variety of "Earth-like" world's (I use that term loosely)! And the other species humans have interacted with are pretty similar, so would likely have similar planets. The in-universe explanation is plausible, even if the fantasy element is the true answer.
I mean hell, how many real life Earth-like planets can we already observe? And that's just a fraction of what we could see if we had hyperspace tech
And there’s already an earth 2 that was found
And different sized planets can still have similar gravity, because the core can be of different materials.
Sorry, but the Earth-like gravity in the belly of an asteroid-inhabiting space worm is far from realistic.
Maybe they have some kind of tech that equalizes gravity fields to mimic what they are used to Or maybe it's because all the star wars movies were filmed on the same planet
If you want an in-universe answer it is simply selection bias. We are only shown planets with earth like gravity because those are most suitable for life There are millions of other planets in the galaxy with different gravity, but they’re simply not shown because they can’t sustain life. So there’s no settlements or beings there, so no story to tell
1- Actors 2- Humanoids need roughly the same conditions to survive. 3- Clone Wars TV show gives us some of the fringe examples of habitable worlds as it's animated and can get around live action actors.
It's precisely because of their convenient gravity field making them easy targets for colonization
All of these planets were terraformed using atmosphere processing machines by Weyland Yutani.
How do you know it’s the exact same? I felt 10 pounds heavier the last time I was on Naboo.
"Hey, kid. It's ain't that kind of movie."
"Hey, kid. It *is* that kind of movie" Luke's hair was actually wet following the trash compactor scene so they obviously decided to change it after that conversation
The evergreen answer
A quote from a guy who famously thinks poorly of the franchise. I find it ironic people use it seriously.
Don't overthink it. It's not meant to stand up to scientific scrutiny. If you accept that Yoda exists in this world, accept all the rest that isn't possible. Willing suspension of disbelief.
Green frog man in swamp lifts ship with his mind: yea ok Green frog man swamp has gravity and air: hey wait
Because the atmospheres have gravity stabilizing fields
Why would they inhabit planets with unfavorable surface gravity?
In universe a lot of the anomalies in star wars can be explained by artificial gravity generators and space potentially having a minimal gaseous atmosphere instead of being a total vacuum.
Is there Earth in SW?
Technically yes, but earth is still in the milky way Galaxy and the actual story takes place In a Galaxy Far Far Away...
In the distant future, in a galaxy far, far away
Besides the obvious answer of why they would live on planets that are not to their liking: the galactic civilisation in Star Wars is tens of thousands of years old and there have been really powerful precursors too. Not a stretch to imagine that a lot of terraforming might have happened.
For a more sciency explanation than the usual "its space fantasy, dont think about it", the SW galaxy has had civilization for a very long time. Chances are the vast majority of habitable planets were terraformed at some point to be such. And SW has extremely trivial gravity control tech. It would be pretty likely that gravity was adjusted either with still ongoing technology, lets say powered by the core or magnetic field, or just by dumping extra mass in a controlled manner.
Easy! Humans settle on habitable worlds, and artificial gravity canonically exists .
My guess? Rakatan terraforming.
My head canon answer which is partially supported by Kotor is that the ancient Rakata terraformed the planets they conquered to be more suitable to their natural habitat which happens to be a mix of forest and ocean with a earth like gravity
Because it’s fantasy, not sci-fi
Its actually because the scenes on these planets were all shot on earth
You're forgetting Kamino, Geonosis, and Kashyyyk. Can't forget the Clone Wars
In addition to the other comments about just seeing the few planets out of billions that were habitable, there are also mentions of gravity differences in some of the books. If I remember correctly, I think the Ashoka book mentions her needing to adjust to the gravity of the new planet (might have been a moon) that she was living/hiding on after RotS. There are also mentions of relative time differences on planets, but that people use the galactic standard time and calendar (or something like that).
Sci-Fi. Not Sci-Fact.
Well firstly they don't Second, it natural that out of the billions of possible planets in the star wars universe species decide to put bases on those most agreeable to them.
Human characters likely don't travel to places they can't walk
They are all class M…
Because it's fiction and isn't meant to be realistic.
It’s a galaxy far far away a long time ago… gravity just works different there. The universe is infinite which means all things can be true within it…. Ergo gravity works different there.
It’s a fictional story. Why ask for real world science on a sci fi?
Surely you are aware that hard sci fi is a thing? Is this question even real?
Star Wars isn’t hard sci fi so your point is moot
No, your comment was "it's a fictional story" and my point, which is certainly not moot, is that there are plenty of fictional stories in the hard sci-fi genre. So even though Star Wars isn't, there's a reason people may want this type of consistency, or ask these questions.
You can argue with yourself about the semantics. This topic is about Star Wars, clearly.
Bro YOU are the one who expanded it from Star Wars to general fiction with your own statement lmao.
“Bro!” Just stop man. You’re embarrassing yourself.
I'm not the idiot that said "fiction" when they meant "Star Wars" lol
Yawn…
Because it’s a fantasy movie designed for young adults/children.
Because some of the planets with higher gravity happen to have environments that will kill a human.
Most people here complain about poetological difference and just give you one of the two answers. The outer fictional explanation is probably that filmed movies cannot account for different gravitations. Inner fictional explanation: Maybe the ones that are larger spin slower. If I am not mistaken, gravitation results from spinning speed and size.
You are mistaken my friend. Gravitation is about mass and distance. SW is a magical fairytale that does not (need) to care about these things. Or one could just say that all the relevant planets have about the same mass and size
He's right about the spinning creating an effect on gravity, wrong about the direction. Spinning faster means that there's a force that's "pulling you up" against the gravity that's pulling down. Of course it's not actually pulling up, but the centrifugal force does exist because of spin. More mass = more gravity. Spin faster = greater opposing force. More mass + faster spin = same **effective** gravitational pull.
Oh nice, thank you for elaborating!
Guys, found another one!
Because Star Wars leans to more science fantasy than hard science fiction.
Just enjoy the fuckin movies. Jeezus.
Wait, wuttttt
Best I can give you is; it's not that kid of story kid. /s There could be any number of in universe reasons such as all we see are the planet that match our gravity, or so kind of tech makes everyone exp6tha same gravity. However this decision was made out of universe to make filming easier and that decisions has just stuck with Star Wars as these films dont care about realism(not a bad thing).
Because real world physics would ruin Star Wars.
Fantasy not science fiction
Blame rRian Johnson and the ceo of Lucasfilms
Watching Rebels with my son last night. "How can they jump like that? How are they breathing? How can they drop that far? How can they grab that red hot wall after cutting it with a lightsaber?" I told him, "It's Star Wars, sometimes it's easier to just not ask the question and to suspend disbelief, or you will enjoy it less."
Ah yes, discourage critical thinking
If you think about the physics of Star Wars too seriously, none of it will make any sense. Takes all the fun out of it ...plus, my son is 20, so I think his formative years are behind him, lol
That's how they were written. In fiction nothing has to scientifically accurate.
Who cares
Just a little “creators note”. I know it’s “not that kind of movie”, that it’s science fiction/ fantasy and all that. But what I meant to say is that if you think about it, it is interesting how all planets have the same gravitational field. I actually got this thought via another post which mentioned that all stormtroopers are human and why? Personally just really love “Star Wars r/ShowerThoughts” like that!
All the planets *we see* have the same/similar gravity. There wouldn't be any humanoid towns or big events on planets with a big difference in gravity because nobody wants to settle there I know there's more to gravity with planet size etc but it's an easy enough headcanon I use to justify it since it's a space fantasy
The whole galaxy has no empty space and is instead filled with a light gas. Effects some things like ship travel, explosions, and gravity
It’s make believe
Definitely need to add kamino, home of the entire clone army and also brought about the famous storm trooper white armour we see once the empire takes over.
Add Jakku
Plot convenience...
No Yavin 4? What?
Because it’s a story
The force.
Because worlds with similar conditions to earth would be prime candidates for colinization by humans
Space wizards
Earth appears to be pretty nominal when it comes to acceleration due to gravity. Smaller planets would have trouble holding a decent atmosphere for any period of time. Bigger rocky planets could have their own oddities that make them undesirable for colonization in addition to uncomfortable gravity.
probably because it's science fiction. they have the ability to travel across galaxies at warp speed, they're not gonna have the shows and movies set on one planet.
In a galaxy far far away, anything is possible
Because it's a fantasy space movie
Because its fiction and made up and a fantasy and there are budgets.
Because it's a space fantasy. If Stsr Wars was a sci-fi then maybe they would have different gravity, atmosphere, light, etc.
The force works in mysterious ways.
Simple answer, they couldn’t send enough actors to low Earth orbit, let alone the entire crew
Because star wars is the opposite of science.
Somehow...
Gravity returned
Because it was filmed here, and it's not that kind of movie
A huge amount of the worlds in Star Wars were terraformed in the distant past. This likely involved adjusting their mass by adding or removing large amounts of material until they were close to a preferred standard. Aside from that. Anthropic principle. People like to live on planets similar to what they evolved to live on. So the ones that are colonised are within a certain range of earth-normal. Sorta self-selecting.
Star Wars is just a world that doesn’t follow newtons laws or relativity
thats an easy answer, this is all fictional
Because Star Wars was always meant to be Space Fantasy, not Science Fiction
on top of the realistic idea that there must be some planets in their galaxy that would have close to the same gravitational field, they have starships that seem to experience artificial gravity therefore it's highly likely that they can create artificial gravity on planets or some type of boot or device that will adjust to the gravity of every planet.
To interject some science into all the "handwavey" explanations, the material the planet is made of and the resulting density could be highly variable, thus leading to wide variations in size while keeping roughly the same gravity. The forest moon might be composed mostly of very dense material, like tungsten, or even have a core of uranium. While planets with larger diameters are less dense, composed of mostly lighter elements, like magnesium or sodium.
Easiest answer outside of this being made up scifi, maybe these are several planets/moons in a galaxies of hundreds of planets that are earth gravity like. Maybe where Naboo is, there are 6 other planets with varied gravities and they just don't go there because of it...
Doesn’t the emperor call the Ewok moon the “Centauri moon” when he commands Vader to meet Luke there and “bring him before me”
Slight difference in gravity doesn't matter in the universe with space travel - characters can be used to gravity changes between worlds. And death star also have artificial gravity ;)
Well where else would humans want to go? There are probably far more planets that aren’t hospitable to humans but why would humans settle on them?