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    Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    One of the things I always liked about Star Wars was the planets with mono-climates. That always added a great bit of flavor to the movies. So these are the ones I remember:

    Desert: Tatooine
    Swamp: Dagobah
    Urban: Coruscant
    Forest: the Ewok Moon of Endor, Yavin
    Arctic: Hoth
    Air/Cloud: the Cloud City of Bespin (? - Lando's place, it's been a long time)
    Oceanic: Naboo

    So what's missing? I can think of a few. What about you guys?

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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    Quote Originally Posted by Supreme
    One of the things I always liked about Star Wars was the planets with mono-climates. That always added a great bit of flavor to the movies. So these are the ones I remember:

    Oceanic: Naboo

    So what's missing? I can think of a few. What about you guys?
    But not all of Naboo is ocean, so does it qualify?

    What about the planet where the clone army was created...the one missing from the star maps? Isn't it a candidate for "storms" mono-climate?
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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Anomaly
    But not all of Naboo is ocean, so does it qualify?

    What about the planet where the clone army was created...the one missing from the star maps? Isn't it a candidate for "storms" mono-climate?
    That's a good one. I was thinking that the Cloud City of Bespin wasn't "sky" enough. I'm thinking of whole communities made up of sail-driven air-ships and what-not.

    And I'm thinking no-one has done an all-volcanic planet, though a planet with virtually all CO2 in its atmosphere would be poisonous, so everyone would have to bring their O2 tanks.

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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    Quote Originally Posted by Supreme
    That's a good one. I was thinking that the Cloud City of Bespin wasn't "sky" enough. I'm thinking of whole communities made up of sail-driven air-ships and what-not.

    And I'm thinking no-one has done an all-volcanic planet, though a planet with virtually all CO2 in its atmosphere would be poisonous, so everyone would have to bring their O2 tanks.
    Not in Star Wars. All you really need is one of those little oxygen mask dealies with a little box (like what Han, Leia and Chewie wear inside the "worm" in Empire). And anyway, what does a Mynokk breathe?

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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    The Ocean mono-climate is Calamari (or something to that effect) where Quarrans and Calamarians (like Admiral Ackbar) are from.

    Kasshyyk is another forest mono-climate.
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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    Quote Originally Posted by BlackSword
    The Ocean mono-climate is Calamari (or something to that effect) where Quarrans and Calamarians (like Admiral Ackbar) are from.

    Kasshyyk is another forest mono-climate.
    Right. But they've not had a rain-forest mono-climate, which is very different. I'm thinking a rain-forest monoclimate would be difficult to live on because so little of the bio-material would actually be edible. Plus there'd be all the little poisonous critters, and the occassional tree-clearing mastadon types who would trample you if you didn't see them coming.

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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    I always though mono-climates seemed to be the rule in SF and not the exception.

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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    Had a volcanic world in my SW game. Picture a blackened, jagged, ash covered landscape with occasional lakes of molten rock, kilometer-deep fissures that glow orange-red in the depths, more-or-less continuous tremors of varying magnitude, and the occasional ash flow to obliterate everything within 50km, just to keep complacent players on their toes.

    The planet was heavily mined, or more accurately surface-vacuumed, for the abundant minerals. Lotsa hazard pay for jobs like that.

    The planet had one "city", a high-altitude anti-grav affair similar to Cloud City, but dirtier.

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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    Quote Originally Posted by John T
    Had a volcanic world in my SW game. Picture a blackened, jagged, ash covered landscape with occasional lakes of molten rock, kilometer-deep fissures that glow orange-red in the depths, more-or-less continuous tremors of varying magnitude, and the occasional ash flow to obliterate everything within 50km, just to keep complacent players on their toes.

    The planet was heavily mined, or more accurately surface-vacuumed, for the abundant minerals. Lotsa hazard pay for jobs like that.

    The planet had one "city", a high-altitude anti-grav affair similar to Cloud City, but dirtier.

    John T
    I bet it smelled lovely too, what with all that sulphur and CO2.

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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    Quote Originally Posted by Supreme
    I bet it smelled lovely too, what with all that sulphur and CO2.
    The native fauna (such as it was) was very entertaining, too, but I leave that to other GMs imaginations for their own games.

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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    To quote Doug Berry at one point on the Traveller Mailing List when asked about the Denebian Tree Oxen

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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    Quote Originally Posted by shadowcat1313
    To quote Doug Berry at one point on the Traveller Mailing List when asked about the Denebian Tree Oxen

    "I'm not so much worried about oxen living in trees, as whatever drove them there in the first place"
    Just like the bit in FoTR when the goblins first have the Fellowship surrounded then run off. Gandalf has to ask, "What made them run?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by paigeoliver
    I always though mono-climates seemed to be the rule in SF and not the exception.
    Absolutely. Larry Niven summed it up in a somewhat sarcastic fashion:

    "It was raining on Mongo that day..."

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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    Quote Originally Posted by BlackSword
    The Ocean mono-climate is Calamari (or something to that effect) where Quarrans and Calamarians (like Admiral Ackbar) are from.

    Kasshyyk is another forest mono-climate.
    Yes.

    Because Chewbacca does not live on Endor.

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    Re: Missing SW-Brand Mono-Climates

    Quote Originally Posted by Supreme
    That's a good one. I was thinking that the Cloud City of Bespin wasn't "sky" enough. I'm thinking of whole communities made up of sail-driven air-ships and what-not.

    And I'm thinking no-one has done an all-volcanic planet, though a planet with virtually all CO2 in its atmosphere would be poisonous, so everyone would have to bring their O2 tanks.
    I've heard Bespin explained as not so much a purely residential city, as a mining operation (with families of miners, etc) floating in a gas giant. They're mining gas - has been explained, usually, as tibanna gas, the stuff that fuels blasters.

    But all of that is non-canon, except for the fact that mining operations are mentioned, and the place seems to have a mercantile flavour to it. Lando's language also seems to indicate that it's focussed around that mining.

    But yes, I'd love to see some more sky-based cultures/civilisations. I'm thinkin' an expansion on the dudes from the Flash Gordon film.

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