Earth Words or Phrases in SW

[Tychu]

I do not recall that, and they do try to avoid it (using groundquake rather than earthquake, for instance.)

Personally my take on the matter is SW happens in the very far future, when mankind has spread out to other galaxies and Earth is an obscure historical reference or a myth, and the "a long time ago" was supposed to indicate the narrator was telling the story to someone even further into the future, as it's presented as history. So there'd be no contradiction.

i personally believe that it does however take place far in our past and that the narator is telling us the story of a long time ago. Why tell the story 3 times?
Eventually I believe that The SW people will leave their galaxy and then spread to others one being ours and there you go, Humans on Earth.


But Anyways Duck always botherd me, Hot Chocolate always botherd me
And the planet Bastion bothered me the most.
One it was the Empires final safe planet and its new capital
in our world Bastion is a safe place and is a safe place that will harbor you.
sounds very similar

[Tychu]

TIE being the abbreviation of Twin Ion Engine is also a very English language thing.

IIRC B-Wing was named because it was shaped like a "blade". Again, language based.

The B-Wing and A-wing were named because in ROTJ Lucas wanted 2 new Rebel Ships
The A-Wing was the first brought to him
The B-Wing was the second brought to Him

since the Awing kinda looked like an A
Lucas just left the B the way it was as the 2nd brought to him
I mean i cant see the ship flying around with the name 2-wing

[Tychu]

Is there one single scrap of evidence that referrences the 'Hyperspace Aliens' by name? Where do they come from? I've looked all over Wookiepedia and found jack, as far as i can tell they're a fabrication.

They're mentioned in the NEGtC, but only as the mysterious builders of artifacts like Centerpoint Station. It's never implied that they have anything to do with the origins of humanity (indeed, it strongly indicates that humans are native to a known planet in the SW galaxy, probably Coruscant); if Wookieepeida says otherwise, it's flat out wrong. Unless, of course, there's some obscure source I'm missing.

actually well it probally is Courscant but I think its one of the guides to the SW Universe but its stated that the Humans evolved from somewhere near the core of the galaxy

And whats wrong with the belief that aliens transported us around. Every major Sci-Fi series has some form of aliens being the masterminds of the universe and moving speices (Except Foundation) hmmm but you get my drift

[Tychu]

That thoery doesn't quite work without time travel, though. Humans simply haven't existed long enough-- we've been around, what, 50,000 years on Earth?

Human history in Star Wars, on the other hand, stretches back 200,000 years at the very least,

oh man am i going to get in trouble.....
please just dont' ban with me mr. moderator. please im an orignial member of the site
just delete my first post if anything it has no barring anymore

Taken from your words
50,000 years on Earth

on Earth. It just seems to me that some species could say hmmm we have some Humans here (it could be really futuristic SW Humans as well) thats says you know what i want to see the evolution of the Human species. Were great and cool why not start spreading us around in this galaxy and say hey in 45423 million years we'll control this galaxy as well. So he took our DNA and had a little experiment on Earth

Its God. for any religion the gods made us in their image
They let us evolve and now we look like them
In Lucas' view GOD is the Humans he created in his SW Galaxy

[Ghost Rider]

For christ sakes don't spam.

This is taken in universe...last I remember GEORGE LUCAS does not exist in the SW universe. So don't incoherently babble to to make four non sensical point that mean diddly and squat.

[Junghalli]

i personally believe that it does however take place far in our past and that the narator is telling us the story of a long time ago. Why tell the story 3 times?
Eventually I believe that The SW people will leave their galaxy and then spread to others one being ours and there you go, Humans on Earth.

How do you explain all the fossil evidence that humans evolved on Earth?

And whats wrong with the belief that aliens transported us around. Every major Sci-Fi series has some form of aliens being the masterminds of the universe and moving speices (Except Foundation) hmmm but you get my drift

There's nothing wrong with it per se. It just strikes me as more parsimonous to explain away the opening crawl and assume SW just happens in the future. To me it seems much simpler and more elegant to find some other interpretation for that single line of dialog than to introduce a Deus ex Machina to get humans into the SW galaxy in order to accomodate it.
Anyway, the whole debate is fairly meaningless, as there's no conclusive evidence either way.

[Kane Starkiller]

Well as I already mentioned if we are discussing wether the SW is in our future or past the use of arab numbers in X-wing displays would be the most conclusive evidence for the future.

[Noble Ire]

And the planet Bastion bothered me the most.
One it was the Empires final safe planet and its new capital
in our world Bastion is a safe place and is a safe place that will harbor you.
sounds very similar

Quite literally, "Bastion" means "A fortified position". As such, it has been used for the names of fortresses on our world. In all likelihood, basic has a comparable word. Let's call it "Dlagon". The Imperial Remnant named their capitol "Dlagon" because it was well fortified, and the last citadel of the Empire. Through SoD, we assume that "Dlagon" can be translated into "Bastion". Thus, the planet is called "Bastion".

[Publius]

And the planet Bastion bothered me the most.
One it was the Empires final safe planet and its new capital
in our world Bastion is a safe place and is a safe place that will harbor you.
sounds very similar

Quite literally, "Bastion" means "A fortified position". As such, it has been used for the names of fortresses on our world. In all likelihood, basic has a comparable word. Let's call it "Dlagon". The Imperial Remnant named their capitol "Dlagon" because it was well fortified, and the last citadel of the Empire. Through SoD, we assume that "Dlagon" can be translated into "Bastion". Thus, the planet is called "Bastion".

Bastion isn't the planet's name at all, in point of fact. It is simply the code name given to the Imperial remnants' seat of government. In Vision of the Future, when Mara Jade expresses surprise that Voss Parck knows where Bastion is, he replies "We've followed Bastion's movement from system to system with a great deal of interest."

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Well as I already mentioned if we are discussing wether the SW is in our future or past the use of arab numbers in X-wing displays would be the most conclusive evidence for the future.

That would be an example of autotranslation, much like how earlier in the same film, the text on the tractor beam control used to be English before it was converted to being in Aurebesh for the DVD release: both were automatically translated by the filmic medium (in real life, it was because the suits at Fox insisted on it, because they believed the audience would have trouble understanding the action unless it was obvious, something Lucas tried to fight strongly against but lost out).

Notice how in the other five films, there are no Arabic numbers or Latin letters to be seen anywhere.

[Kane Starkiller]

That would be an example of autotranslation, much like how earlier in the same film, the text on the tractor beam control used to be English before it was converted to being in Aurebesh for the DVD release: both were automatically translated by the filmic medium

First of all the filmic medium already has an established autotranslation mechanisam. Little white letters that appear over the film screen. These numbers were actually located within X-wings console.
Secondly the fact that even though tractor beam sign was changed the numbers on X-wing weren't suggests that X-wing display was not in fact a result of autotranslation.

(in real life, it was because the suits at Fox insisted on it, because they believed the audience would have trouble understanding the action unless it was obvious, something Lucas tried to fight strongly against but lost out).

Yes I have heard these stories but quite frankly I have a hard time believeing them. No way Fox studios actually coerced Lucas into putting up a display on the X-wings or zooming in to "Tractor beam 12" sign. If he wanted he could easily choose not to zoom in to the sign and put up a graphical only display on the X-wing.
In my opinion this is nothing but another example of Lucas's historical revisionism.