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In Attack of the Clones, I think they explain why there are uncharted settlements in the Galaxy. Since Kaimino was deleted from charts, we can aasume that during the Clone wars that there were lots more deletions of worlds and systems.

Well, there's the practical aspect of this. Kamino was always an isolationist system, so deleting them didn't raise any eyebrows. You couldn't just delete a highly known and visited world like Coruscant or Corellia. As a real world analogy, the people at Rand McNally could delete some po'dunk town from their maps, and no one would notice. However, if they deleted Chicago, there would be an uproar.

Besides, as said in TESB "there are so many uncharted settlements." With SW tech, one could easly set up camp on an unpopulated world like Hoth without having anyone notice.

It's not unreasonable to assume that other things were lost, no, but not just out of a wild assumption that because it happened once, it must have happened twice.

The most logical deduction would have been thus: The Emperor specifically withheld information of the existance of planets vital to his war engine, like places where top secret research and construction yards were.

Another thought could be that the Jedi maintained a crapload of other information in their libraries. During the rise of the Empire, the Jedi temple might have been reduced to slag by the Emperor as a show of power against the people who might think the Jedi could come back to save them. It would stand to reason that if the Jedi were the priests and scholar class of the galaxy, that a lot of information could have been destroyed with them.

Luke and Leia were tossing the same idea around in HTTE, when discussing who the Noghri were...

"Uncharted settlements" does not equal "uncharted planets".

SPOOFE wrote:"Uncharted settlements" does not equal "uncharted planets".

On the other hand, I find it hard to believe that human-like creatures who dwell over the surface could have evolved naturally on Kamino... unless, of course, the planet was once engulfed in a cataclysm as a result of perhaps global warming???

BTW, the natives of Kamino could have evolved underwater (after all, the Mon Calamari also evolved underwater) but later moved to their cities above the surface - after all, they have vaguely seal-like features.

"Uncharted settlements" does not equal "uncharted planets".

Your point? The same idea holds. The whole planet is isolationist, apparently. There is no difference in this case between deleting a star system or any any trace of colonization.

Simon H.Johansen wrote:

SPOOFE wrote:"Uncharted settlements" does not equal "uncharted planets".

On the other hand, I find it hard to believe that human-like creatures who dwell over the surface could have evolved naturally on Kamino... unless, of course, the planet was once engulfed in a cataclysm as a result of perhaps global warming???

It was. See the databank entry at starwars.com

Your point?

Just supporting what USAF Ace said.

The whole planet is isolationist, apparently.

I was referring more to the notion that "if Kamino can do it, other systems might've done it, too."

USAF Ace wrote:Well, there's the practical aspect of this. Kamino was always an isolationist system, so deleting them didn't raise any eyebrows. You couldn't just delete a highly known and visited world like Coruscant or Corellia. As a real world analogy, the people at Rand McNally could delete some po'dunk town from their maps, and no one would notice. However, if they deleted Chicago, there would be an uproar.

Besides, as said in TESB "there are so many uncharted settlements." With SW tech, one could easly set up camp on an unpopulated world like Hoth without having anyone notice.

Airforce is right about the uncharted stuff. Also like in Splinter of the Minds Eye (good but funny reading for real SW fans, since they knew nothing of SW back then) but if a planet also is outof the way and dosent have much to give in mining or strategic outposts theres no reason for others to know about it. Like Mimban (Circarpous V). with little amount of people knowing of it, its pretty much uncharted.