#i know people wanna act like they're The Single Most Diverse Culture In The Entire Galaxy but that was always largely an informed attribute

[stairset]

Maybe it's just because of where I live, but the whole "Satine didn't like that her people were a bunch of warmongering imperialist assholes and told them to knock it off and implemented gun control and made the Jedi Torture Boxes illegal so that her people could rebuild and move on from their violent history of civil wars that reduced their planet into a nearly uninhabitable wasteland in favor of focusing on more productive things like art and education and this is literally cultural genocide and she's erasing history and she should've been a villain blah blah blah" take has always been so weird to me. Like I have absolutely seen people say things like that in real life all the time and about 90% of them have confederate flags on the back of their pickup trucks so. Yeah.

[ashren]

one thing that bothers me about like a lot of space stories but specially star wars bc that's what i'm thinking about now, but like

i wanna know what the REST of Tatooine looks and acts like. Or the rest of Naboo, or the towns and cities and villages on these planets that aren't the like capitols

cuz u know, Earth has a lot more diversity than Tatooine if it was truly just a desert planet, which, for the story telling purposes i get it but also

are the towns all the way across the planet from Mos Eisley similar to Mos Eisley at all? do they have a different culture or customs? or have these people been able to easily communicate across the planet for long enough now that most of the cultures just kinda mushed together after a while?

like the Tuskan Raiders are clearly a culture that haven't 'assimilated', as are the Jawas. but even those groups are all in the same like geographical area, at least that we see, and are like part of the culture we do see

but like SORGAN in the mandalorian, how did that entire planet not have a single space port? the planet sizes seem to vary and maybe they're physically smaller than Earth, but there's still SO MUCH land and so much room for so much cultural diversity within single planets, let alone the galaxy

i made up a planet for my Star Wars OCs and world building it has been fun but i keep getting stuck on the fact that most star wars content treats planets as if they're basically just small countries or cities and not entire worlds and i have THOUGHTS

maybe ill ramble about my planet soon too