The most commonly-mentioned ones are various cuts and preparations of nerf, bantha, and nuna. Nerf and bantha are used similar to beef, and nuna is the equivalent of chicken. Of all meats, nerf steak is probably the most popular to refer to, in both the books and in fan works. Other than those, there are a ton you can pick from.
~ Jacen
Yes, rice does exist and grows on several different worlds. The only explicitly named variants are Ghoba rice and Kodari rice, but it is possible that tikit grain is meant to be the equivalent of sushi rice. No other grains correspond in name with any in the real world, but plenty do in function. Here is the Wookieepedia list of grains (rice is not there because it’s classified under edible nuts and seeds, which you can also look through if you like).
Hope that helps!
~ Jacen
We actually don’t know a whole lot about other similar establishments on Coruscant, unfortunately. There’s a huge variety in the food you can find there, so I would say Dex’s Diner probably serves at least some unique dishes. Others, like nerf steaks and juri juice, can be bought in many places throughout the galaxy. Since we have so much information on Dex’s Diner and so little on others, many dishes served there are only ever mentioned in connection with Dex, and I couldn’t say whether they could be found elsewhere or not. It seems it’s largely up to you!
~ Jacen
Hutt Space was governed by the most powerful and corrupt of the Hutt clans, or Kajidics, and their criminal networks, who were in turn overseen by the Hutt Ruling Council. The Kajidics were basically crime and/or business syndicates run by Hutt families, usually involved in many different ventures and often possessing leadership over dozens of worlds. Many clans were in constant competition with each other, but their rivalries were generally reigned in by the Hutt Ruling Council. (It was also common for Hutts to operate as lone crime lords, and some, such as Jabba, ruled whole planets by themselves.)
It is unclear exactly how involved in the system the Hutts themselves were (it likely varied from world to world) but it seems to be that the prominent members of each clan had an involved role in guarding and ruling their territory. If a world was not governed directly by a Hutt (and this did happen), it would be overseen by agents of the clan in some capacity. Often, we see the dirty work carried out by vassals of different species, such as the Gamorreans, and the Hutts’ criminal networks. Hutt Space was known as a lawless place, and as such there was no organized region-wide police or military force, and likely no official tax system either, although it’s entirely possible there was an informal system of protection bribes in place. If the Hutts saw something they didn’t like, they could send bounty hunters to deal with the problem; this would be the closest thing to enforced law in the area.
I hope that helps!
~ Jacen
Many planets have the prefix Ord because it stands for Ordinance/Regional Depot. Planet names beginning with Ord, such as Ord Mantell, refer to a planet used as a military outpost. Common suffixes such as -tooine and -ooine have no canonical explanation, but it seems to be a pattern that many of these planets were colonized during the Great Manifest Period (20,000-17,018 BBY). It’s possible that this explains the similarities.
~ Jacen
Thanks anon 😀
It depends pretty heavily on the planet. Though extremely rare, there are droids out there who don’t have owners and live and work on their own, but the legality of it is not recognized by many worlds. If an unowned droid is found on one of these planets, it will likely be seized, memory-wiped, and sold.
Many galactic laws also treat droids as property rather than people (notably, the Droid Statutes).
On other worlds such as Naboo, however, higher-level droids are considered sentient and are treated as equal. Class three droids, built for interacting with humans and commonly considered the most complex droids out there, are more likely to be seen as personable and granted autonomy than other classes. Class five droids will pretty much never be seen as more than basic labour units, because they are usually built without advanced cognitive modules. This is a simplification, because the whole issue is vastly complicated, but if you have the money I would suggest getting the D6 guide Cynabar’s Fantastic Technology: Droids. It sums it up very nicely, and it’s an interesting read. (If you’d like to message me privately, I can legally send you a few pages of the book, in case you can’t afford it at the moment.)
The legal status of droids on different worlds is usually closely tied to whether the society believes droids can be sentient. I have a whole ton of thoughts on this subject in both Star Wars and the real world (over the last semester I’ve ended up writing three papers on the subject) and I won’t get into depth about my own opinions here, but if you’d like to discuss it further I would be more than happy to. Suffice to say, the galaxy is very divided on this issue, and whether a droid is legally considered “free” will depend on the individual droid and the legal system.
Hope that helps!
~ Jacen
I’m afraid I can’t find an answer anywhere in my reference books (other than Dathomir, of course). Does anyone else know of such a list?
~ Jacen
It was rebuilt slowly over the next few millennia, though there were many ruins left behind. Reconstruction was not started until 3,641 BBY, and it is unknown exactly how long it took. By the Clone Wars, it was again considered a city-planet, but it never reached the same level of prosperity it had before the bombardment.
~ Jacen
Thank you! (I don’t own the TLJ Visual Dictionary, so please correct me if I miss anything.) If this is what they meant, then I would say that planet may not be the location of Luke’s Temple; as far as I know, it has not yet been revealed where he built it. As for why one might choose a planet so near Kashyyyk, I don’t believe Kashyyyk would have been considered a likely target of the Imperial remnant after the planet was liberated, because it was primarily used as a source of slave labour and attacked for showing anti-Imperial sentiment. With the New Republic as the primary ruling power in the galaxy, up until the rise of the First Order, there would be little reason to suspect anyone would want to attack Kashyyyk again.
~ Jacen
Write Better Star Wars 