#but also I really like the concept of skyloft in star wars

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Star Wars AU: Sky's home world

So Skyward Sword's setting is very unique with how Sky literally lives on an island in the sky, so for this AU I decided to make his homeworld a gas giant! Kind of like Cloud City on Bespin, except Skyloft is naturally occurring and not a manmade structure.

Most people living on this planet live on the floating islands at the top layer of its cloudy atmosphere, where visibility is clear. The locals travel between islands and through the clouds via loftwing mounts. The cloudy atmosphere on this planet goes very deep, and lots of flying creatures native to this world live on the uninhabited islands deeper down. There are also old ruins on a few of these islands, but they're difficult to locate due to low visibility, atmospheric interference, and island movements.

(Fun fact: Levias can be spotted in the deepest layers just above the cloud barrier, but very few people ever get the chance to)

The atmosphere gets more dangerous the closer you get to the surface. Monsters get more frequent and more dangerous further down, and the lowest layers of the atmosphere are extremely volatile and stormy, to the point where even the sturdiest ships can't really get through it without crashing.

No one in living memory has ever seen the surface and there aren't any surviving records, but there are local legends of something hidden on the planet's surface. The presence of this "cloud barrier" and the unique phenomenon of floating islands only seem to strengthen the validity of these claims.

When Sky finally finds a way through the cloud barrier and flies down to the surface to look for Sun, he finds an ancient abandoned temple, far older than any existing records.