Ok, I've gotta do a paper on Star Wars and how realistic it is so I have a few questions. I figure what better place to ask but on a Star Wars message board of sorts. Anyways the closer the source is to George Lucas the better, but Star Wars books and video games are ok too (if you use these sources please say what source you're using) Alright, thanks for any help that can be provided. Here go the questions!:
1. How many different species are there in Star Wars?
2. How many different intelligent species are there in Star Wars?
3. How long have creatures in the Star Wars galaxy possessed the ability to make the jump to hyperspace?
4. How long had the Republic existed before it was destroyed by the Sith/Empire?
5. How many Stars are there in the Star Wars galaxy?
6. How many planets are there in the Star Wars galaxy?
7. On how many planets did life sporadically occur (how many planets does life exist on, but life did not migrate there)?


Ok, if I think of anymore, I'll add em. Any help you can give me is mucho appreciated.

Sincerely

Lash La-rigitty-rue

Some uber nerd (or somebody who bothers to search the net (StarWars.com?) for info could answer the question 4. But I seriously think you are out of luck with the rest of them. I doubt Lucas himself "knows" the answers (except for the question 4).

Who does a paper on...Star wars?

A lot. There are an infinite number, because people are constantly inventing new ones and changing old ones and wah-wah huppa oh yeah.



See answer to #1.



Like, forever.



There might actually be an answer to this, but I don't know what it is.



See answer to #1.



See answer to #1.



Ask Darth Vader. He knows.

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1. 40,293,483
2. 299,380
3. 12,080 years
4. 11,227 years
5. 75,293,489,292
6. 483,994,281,092
7. 902,328

Say these numbers came directly from George Lucas.

Just don't tell them that I named my *** "George Lucas".

Well it is an important subject. I mean if it actually works, no missile fired from a foreign country could ever reach the U.S.

Wrong Star Wars there pal. This is the movies, not the Reagan era missle defense satellites. It was Reagan era... wasn't it? My history just generally sucks.

You know if it weren't for Gymkata's adventures in that weird country they never would have completed the Star Wars Missile Defense system, and come on, someone must have some general answer to something here.

If you really want to get into detail on the realisticness of the SW universe, you should look over the Star Wars Technical Commentaries. Warning, there is probably enough material here that it would take you several days to read through it all.

Gymkata > *

Well, I know enough to provide a crude answer to #4. Roughly 20,000 years before the "Galactic Civil War", I believe that Jedi from many worlds managed to found the Galactic Republic. I'm not too certain, and the actual year range could be as much as 25,000 years before, but it is within that range.

1-7.) Unknown

Most of these numbers are highly speculative, and are from isolated mentions in unreliable sources, but here they are (most of these numbers gleaned from the aforementioned Technical Commentaries.

1. How many different species are there in Star Wars?
Many quadrillions at least, derived from the number of intelligent species and the number of species here on Earth (note that "species" is a very difficult thing to define).

2. How many different intelligent species are there in Star Wars?
20 million. Apparently.

3. How long have creatures in the Star Wars galaxy possessed the ability to make the jump to hyperspace?
Signifigantly longer than the Republic has existed, certainly.

4. How long had the Republic existed before it was destroyed by the Sith/Empire?
Nottheking's numbers sound familiar. 20,000 years.

5. How many Stars are there in the Star Wars galaxy?
The diameter of the galaxy is apparently 120 Lightyears, containing 100 billion star systems.

6. How many planets are there in the Star Wars galaxy?
12 - 50 million inhabited systems. In Episode 1 Qui-Gon says most of the stars in the galaxy have planets, and of couse some stars have several, so probably 100 billion or more planets wouldn't be unreasonable, the majority uninhabitable.

7. On how many planets did life sporadically occur (how many planets does life exist on, but life did not migrate there)?
Pretty sure this one isn't addressed anywhere.

This is quite possibly the only one you can get an answer to. Senator/Chancellor Palpy says "I will not let this Republic that has stood for a thousand years fall to ruin" or something similar.

Anyway. Answer: 1000 years. (I'm 98.367438% sure)

Dud, according to KOTOR, the republic has been in place for at least 5,000 years before that.

KotOR has answers to several of these questions... I'll find them when I get home.

Gah. Everything KoToR says is BUNK!

/me rocks back and forth in his dark corner

No, it's not. You're forgetting that most of the game's story is based upon the (entirely cannon) fiction works. As for the quote of Palpitines...

He actually said "THOUSANDS of years" :p

A better source would be Obi-Wan's line from Ep IV, where he said that the Jedi Knights and the Old Republic have been arround for "a thousand generations"

Thanks to my Essential Star Wars Chronology and Essential Star Wars Alien Species guides, I will answer your questions... this is all canon, by the way:

1. If you mean every kind of life on every Star Wars planet... probably millions, if not billions.

2. Of course, not all alien species are mentioned in the published Star Wars works, but a rough estimate of the amount of sentient species would number around the tens of thousands. Not all sentient life is represented in the Republic Senate, as their are thousands of species that are primitive (Ewoks) but still sentient.

3. 25,000 years. When hyperspace technology became widespread in use, it allowed the galaxy to become one unified community, giving birth to the Galactic Republic.

4. The Republic was never destroyed by the Sith Empire... they had wars that left the Republic tattered, such as the Hyperspace War and the Sith War, but never completely destroyed.

5. As many as any other galaxy.

6. See number 5.

7. All of the planets have evolved life on their own, omitting Alderran (it was colonized by humans 27,500 years ago) and Corellia (the planet was artificially created by a powerful, unknown species hundreds of thousands of years ago).

I think you know the answer to that.

Nerds

Yeah... Last time I seen a starwars movie was.. 2 years ago.. By that I mean the classics.. The new ones dont count because they arnt starwars.. The new ones got beat up with a ugly stick! But yeah... He speaketh the truth!

1.) WTF kind of question is that?

2.) WTF kind of question is that?

3.) When Golden Age of the Sith came out a few years back, it mentioned hyperspace was new, and that hyperspace mappers were around to map out star lanes. That was 5,000 years.

4.) At least 20,000 years. Obi-Wan said "For over a thousand generations the Jedi have been guardians of peace and justice in the Republic." I've heard as much as 25,000 years.

5.) WTF kind of question is that?

6.) WTF kind of question is that?

7.) WTF kind of question is that?

Bunk I say! BUNK!!!

(I'm just bitter because my computer can't play KoTor. It's really best to just ignore the stark raving happydud nawwing on your elbow.)

how do these questions prove the realism of star wars?

He was joking. Although, I'm almost thinking the original poster actually has to write about how realistic SDI is, but got it confused with the good Star Wars. :p

You could look up tons of EU sources and possibly find answers.


But when George changes his mind for the upteenth time, it's all out the window. It's best to not really think that far about a universe that's been twisted and manipulated into so many well-thought to drop-dead-stupid point of views.

No, I'm thinking it would be better to empty the clip of this Baretta M-9 into you...

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There...

Lash Larue thanks everyone who provided real answers for their help. Yes, this is a paper on Star Wars the movies and how realistic they are. The answers to these questions will be what I compare the reality to, dig? So for instance, if the Star Wars galaxy has 20000000 billion sentient species I will deem it very unrealistic and unlikely as a scenario. If it has several thousand it would be more realistic (though not necessarily realistic). Did someone say life developed naturally on every planet in the Star Wars galaxy? Where's the source on that, because that would be incredibly unlikely.
I've thought of another question

8. How many different species are represented in the Republic's senate?

I seem to remember the scene in Ep 1 or 2 with all the thousands of aliens on the floaty platforms. Has anyone estimated the # of different species in there?

Also. what are those Star Wars technical commentaries based on? How many people created them. I guess if enough avid fans created them, they are probably a trustable source on the facts about Star Wars as a story and made up universe.

My senior year I did a 30 page paper on Led Zeppelin.

How can you say that, merely because our solar system doesn't host that many sentient species? The Earth alone hosts billions of different species. Considering alot of those sentient species in the SW universe have some animal traits it's not hard to imagine that possibly they could've been a non-sentient species, who evolved into more.

The Star Wars galaxy could even be much larger than ours and have much more planets than we could imagine.



I don't think it would be that unlikely, alot of planets do have alot of traits that life needs to survive. An example of what probably wouldn't is Tatooine. Even Hoth sounds like it could host life though, and they can evolve.



Countless, you gotta remember that's it was mostly CGI. So there could've been alien repeats or completely empty platforms further on down the Senate chamber.



As far as Lucas is concerned and he has said this many many times is that if it's not in the movies then it's not canon until he decides it is.

Star Wars? Realistic??

I am confused. For me Star Wars is Fantasy. Fantasy != Reality. Why to care anyway? Star Trek tries to be realistic. But Star Wars has Knights, Princesses, Monsters, typical Good vs. Evil fight and so on. So why should anyone care about the realism? Every single specy and every single person, every single solar sysem and every single planet in the original movies or in fan fiction serve only the reason to progress the story/tale.

At least that is what Star Wars is such a unique scenery, a fantasy scenery in space.

Jedigreedo, all of the planets having traits needed for life to evolve would be unlikely, life evolving on all those planets that did have the right conditions would also be incredibly unlikely. Anyways, Matyy, I am finding out how realistic it is, not saying it is realistic. Anybody know of anywhere where I can get a count on the number of different species in that Senate?