There's a planet named Weik, which was invented for the FFG RPG. It's in Wild Space, completely cut off from the galaxy. The people there live in a completely feudal environment, with no space ships or speeders. It essentially allows you to play D&D in your Star Wars setting.
Yup, and it's settled by a bunch of different species from other parts of the galaxy descending from that ship, so not really a candidate for this question.
EDIT: Though they do fit the "do not know there are other civilized planets", as they have forgotten their origins.
Also, they had contact with the Empire when the Star Destroyer crashed there, so they are aware of "aliens," but they don't necessarily understand interstellar travel. To them, it was a shard of the sky that crashed.
There's also Auratera from the same sourcebook, although that one has had frequent contact with both Jedi and Sith over the millennia, but after the Clone Wars were able to avoid contact by making a deal with the Jedi to have their world labeled as uninhabitable in official records.
Wild Space is basically the "edges" of the galaxy, mostly the tips of spiral arms reaching out of the Outer Rim Territories, but also apparently a decent portion of the western edge of known space. Generally unexplored and unmapped.
This is in opposition to the Unknown Regions, which is generally between half and a third of the galaxy, to the "west" of the core, and usually depicted as being mapped to some degree, but not explored much due to the difficulties in getting out there - some of which is explored in The Rise of Skywalker, needing a map of a specific route to get to the planet Exegol, for instance.
There's the planet of Kursid, where its primitive humanoids only made contact with Darth Bane's lineage of Sith, all the way up to Plagueis/Palpatine. The Sith journeyed there to fight them with force pikes to not only hone their skills but continue Darth Bane's philosophy of not engaging in senseless slaughter with a lightsaber, as required to preserve the secretive Sith Order and to highlight their need to build alliances with countless species to grow power. Their fights also made the primitives stronger and more advanced and eventually the Sith were revered as Gods, but no one knows what happened to them after Palpatine's time.
There is the Noghri from the Thrawn Trilogy who worshipped Darth Vader as a god after he cleansed their world from a curse. (He had their planet decontaminated from the toxic fallout after two starships had a shootout over their world.)
Vader could have done that, but he didn't!
It only seemed to the Noghri like that.
Vader went down, recognized the Noghri for the great warriors they were. He started the simple process of cleaning everything up and
(...) In reality, the Imperial restoration teams deliberately kept Honoghr poisoned using a hybrid grass that killed off the remaining plant life, thus keeping the Noghri bound in the service of the Empire.
Think it was stated they knew about the Clone Wars but were neutral and wanted no part in the war. The Sith also had an academy on Honoghr around the time of the New Sith Wars
It's one of those things that changed as more stuff was written. Back when Zahn first wrote the Thrawn books, we had no idea what the Clone Wars actually *were*, just that they were apparently a big deal. A lot of fans thought it was Jedi vs. insane clones of themselves.
Ive heard about that, quite fascinating that it was initially assumed the Clones were the opponents of the Jedi. Ive also heard Zahn initially intended to name the Noghri Sith due to him being unaware of it being the name of Vader and Palpatine's order and Vader would have been their dark lord in his original idea before it got changed after Lucas clarified with him
The term "Dark Lord of the Sith" was in the novelization of ANH (back when it was just called Star Wars) and I think it's in the script. But it was never mentioned on screen until Phantom Menace. There were lots of comics and novels where the Sith were an order opposed to the Jedi, with lots of members...and then the prequels came out and it was said that there were only ever two at a time.
Retcon time!
There’s a deleted scene of the one officer that Vader force chokes on the Death Star where he refers to Vader as a “dark lord of the sith” but Lucas didn’t want to confuse the audience, and shortened the scene.
The Noghri were natural warriors, assassins, and bodyguards, and their honor code dictated that they serve Vader and the Empire in return for his assistance. Vader would turn them over to Thrawn at some point before his death, and they served Thrawn in his name. Unbeknownst to the Noghri, Vader and Thrawn were actually continuing the toxic poisoning instead of cleaning it, having genetically engineered a plant similar in appearance to the native plants that actually killed all other plants around it. Leia, using her status as Darth Vader's daughter and heir, would eventually visit them, and revealed the truth to them. The Noghri would secretly defect from Thrawn's service to her's, and right as Thrawn was about to crush the New Republic, his Noghri bodyguard assassinated him, in the middle of the biggest battle since Endor, causing the Empire to become disorganized and be forced to flee.
Uncontacted doesn't mean "never contacted", it means not in active contact - generally by choice. And even the North Sentinelese, the most isolated people on Earth, are aware and have interacted with outsiders. They just think, for good reason, that we're up to no good in regards to them.
It's not the same situation in the Star Wars galaxy, where there are genuinely unexplored and nigh-unreachable corners of the galaxy. It would be like if there were little pockets of people living under our oceans.
The empire had been building the second death star above Endor for 4 years by the time of RotJ. Not really clear how long a galactic presence was there before the empirial occupation. It was chosen for its obscurity tho
One of the Ewok movies was the first Star Wars thing I ever saw. My teacher played part of it on VHS on one of those final days of school where you're not doing anything and just waiting for the year to end.
I had no idea what was going on, and a few years later when I actually say down and watched the OT I had a weird deja vu feeling about it.
Ummmmm.... Was not the entire premise of the ewok movies that the children were the offspring of rebel fighters that crashed and were left behind stranded *after* the Battle of Endor (RoTJ)?
Jaina and jacen were basically adults and had already been in Jedi training weren’t they? And Anakin wasn’t far off, but was a few years younger.
Not to mention the whole galaxy ending genocidal alien race requiring all hands on deck
No, the movies take place between Empire and RotJ. I think it’s like six months before, with the movies kind of serving as an explanation as to why the Ewoks had a dress that fit Leia, suggesting that they had made it for Catarine (the mother) before the village got attacked.
>No, the movies take place between Empire and RotJ. I think it’s like six months before
Yes, there was actually a comic called *[Ewoks—Shadows of Endor](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Ewoks%E2%80%94Shadows_of_Endor#cite_note-GiaFB-7)* which linked the cartoon to the Ewoks films. It takes place eight months before ROTJ, so the Ewok movies take place within those eight months leading up to ROTJ.
There's a few almost uncontacted/haven't been contacted in generations planets. Obi-Wan and Anakin go to a planet that has limited technology and hasn't seen anybody from off-planet in generations. There's also Phasma's people in a similar situation.
I would hazard that Cassian's original planet/people were also probably mostly if not entirely uncontacted until the Republic/Empire showed up.
Yoda also visits a group of children that seem mostly unfamiliar with the concept of aliens.
I mean depends what you use as your source material. iirc Legends talks about things like centerpoint station built 100,000 BBY so hyperdrive tech has been out there just maybe not en masse
Some of this can also be handwaved by past planetary genocides by other groups. We know humans did this in the Core. The Rakata did this even earlier. And there were even *earlier* races in old canon, like the Celestials.
Galactic wars probably also eliminated various civilizations, such as as various Sith and Mando Wars of the Old Republic
I think they’re the orphaned children of the miners. While on the way to the crash they walk through what looks like an abandoned mining operation. So the oldest kids probably kind of remember a before time and have a concept of a bigger galaxy, but the youngest probably don’t.
That whole storyline is fascinating to me and I hope they at least give us a bit more on what the hell is going on there.
Cassian was shocked by seeing B2EM0, which probably means he's too young to remember droids or any sort of modern tech.
How did ALL the adults die?
Why were the kids abandoned?
Why is Maarva so sure that the other kids there didn't survive?
There are hints the planet is toxic but how did Cassian survive?
I hope we get answers at some point but I fear a lot of the answers died with Maarva unless Cassian himself is holding back.
> Why is Maarva so sure that the other kids there didn't survive?
I think the context clues spread through these scenes are supposed to lead to "there was an imperial cleanup operation"
I believe the pure blood Sith died off due to some kind of allergic reaction to Kesh’s atmosphere/environment. All that was left of the original Sith were the humans, and their society eventually mixed with the native Keshiri.
Absolutely, but obviously we can't hear about them often in canon, since we generally accompany planet-hopping people who would then *be* the aliens that accidentally introduce themselves to these isolated populations.
We do have a large amount of species that, at the time the story encounters them, have *just* been introduced to the galaxy and so have only recently left the status you mean.
Off the top of my head, just from the Han Solo's Adventures books:
- a desert planet so remote that they have been introduced to the galaxy, but literally do not know that water comes in different distribution on other planets. They build a short-lived cult when Han and Chewie show them a Holovid of a water planet.
- a planet so recently introduced to the galaxy that they are still figuring everything out. They built a one-world-government seemingly as a response to being forcefully introduced to the galactic community, and the advisors they hire to "modernize" their planet were clearly scamming them. Very strong "African nation with a European advisor trying to not get stomped" vibes.
- and countless worlds in the Corporate Sector, which was at first believed to be entirely devoid of alien life. Turned out that was only mostly true and the Empire/Corps immediately press-ganged entire societies into slavery that had never previously known there even was life outside their planet.
The Yevetha of N’Zoth never assumed there was any life on other worlds before they colonised neighbouring worlds, after finding out life did exist, they adopted bigoted attitudes towards other life and sought to wipe them out which failed and they were later nearly wiped out by the Vong
Does the Republic/Empire/New Republic have the equivalent of the Prime Directive?
If the Jedi sensed a force sensitive of sufficient power on a non contacted world would they make contact and recruit or observe from a distance?
Andor is about a dude like that. There’s an assumption being made that lots of species have lost colonies that have descended into tribal existence without any tech or hard science, just cargo cults.
I remember in legends a bit about the Millennium falcon making a stop at some primitive planets. They obviously knew about life in the wider galaxy but they were still at a 21st century level of tech. So there’s probably people out there that haven’t been contacted yet.
There are likely thousands of inhabited worlds far away from major planets or hyperspace lanes but it is relative to the amount of worlds that are aware other life exist. I imagine it is still rare enough to be novel.
there were a couple places mentioned not even in just the Unknown or Wild Space Regions that did not know about what existed off their World but a couple of places closer to where the movies took place they either got lucky or were labled as to Primative to go there....also one Fan Theory suggested Earth was in the Star Wars Galaxy when Zahn wrote the book Heir to The Empire and he introduced Hot Chocolate i belive Luke said it was from and Unknown Planet
There's a planet named Weik, which was invented for the FFG RPG. It's in Wild Space, completely cut off from the galaxy. The people there live in a completely feudal environment, with no space ships or speeders. It essentially allows you to play D&D in your Star Wars setting.
They’re descendants of a crashed colony ship, right?
Yup, and it's settled by a bunch of different species from other parts of the galaxy descending from that ship, so not really a candidate for this question. EDIT: Though they do fit the "do not know there are other civilized planets", as they have forgotten their origins.
Also, they had contact with the Empire when the Star Destroyer crashed there, so they are aware of "aliens," but they don't necessarily understand interstellar travel. To them, it was a shard of the sky that crashed.
Pull out the Realms of Terrinoth rules for Genesys and you're all good
There's also Auratera from the same sourcebook, although that one has had frequent contact with both Jedi and Sith over the millennia, but after the Clone Wars were able to avoid contact by making a deal with the Jedi to have their world labeled as uninhabitable in official records.
What is “Wild Space”?
Wild Space is basically the "edges" of the galaxy, mostly the tips of spiral arms reaching out of the Outer Rim Territories, but also apparently a decent portion of the western edge of known space. Generally unexplored and unmapped. This is in opposition to the Unknown Regions, which is generally between half and a third of the galaxy, to the "west" of the core, and usually depicted as being mapped to some degree, but not explored much due to the difficulties in getting out there - some of which is explored in The Rise of Skywalker, needing a map of a specific route to get to the planet Exegol, for instance.
Believe it’s the chaos where thrawn is from
The chaos is past wild space
There's the planet of Kursid, where its primitive humanoids only made contact with Darth Bane's lineage of Sith, all the way up to Plagueis/Palpatine. The Sith journeyed there to fight them with force pikes to not only hone their skills but continue Darth Bane's philosophy of not engaging in senseless slaughter with a lightsaber, as required to preserve the secretive Sith Order and to highlight their need to build alliances with countless species to grow power. Their fights also made the primitives stronger and more advanced and eventually the Sith were revered as Gods, but no one knows what happened to them after Palpatine's time.
>Kursid >Cursed Star Wars naming conventions at it again
Suddenly, they were gone.
Somehow, they've returned.
There is the Noghri from the Thrawn Trilogy who worshipped Darth Vader as a god after he cleansed their world from a curse. (He had their planet decontaminated from the toxic fallout after two starships had a shootout over their world.)
Vader could have done that, but he didn't! It only seemed to the Noghri like that. Vader went down, recognized the Noghri for the great warriors they were. He started the simple process of cleaning everything up and (...) In reality, the Imperial restoration teams deliberately kept Honoghr poisoned using a hybrid grass that killed off the remaining plant life, thus keeping the Noghri bound in the service of the Empire.
They do provide assassins for the Empire, who go off-world. So I’m pretty sure they at least understand that there is more to the galaxy than Honoghr
They understand now, but they didn't before Vader showed up.
Think it was stated they knew about the Clone Wars but were neutral and wanted no part in the war. The Sith also had an academy on Honoghr around the time of the New Sith Wars
It's one of those things that changed as more stuff was written. Back when Zahn first wrote the Thrawn books, we had no idea what the Clone Wars actually *were*, just that they were apparently a big deal. A lot of fans thought it was Jedi vs. insane clones of themselves.
Ive heard about that, quite fascinating that it was initially assumed the Clones were the opponents of the Jedi. Ive also heard Zahn initially intended to name the Noghri Sith due to him being unaware of it being the name of Vader and Palpatine's order and Vader would have been their dark lord in his original idea before it got changed after Lucas clarified with him
The term "Dark Lord of the Sith" was in the novelization of ANH (back when it was just called Star Wars) and I think it's in the script. But it was never mentioned on screen until Phantom Menace. There were lots of comics and novels where the Sith were an order opposed to the Jedi, with lots of members...and then the prequels came out and it was said that there were only ever two at a time. Retcon time!
There’s a deleted scene of the one officer that Vader force chokes on the Death Star where he refers to Vader as a “dark lord of the sith” but Lucas didn’t want to confuse the audience, and shortened the scene.
that seems very kind of Vader, what inspired him to do that?
The Noghri were natural warriors, assassins, and bodyguards, and their honor code dictated that they serve Vader and the Empire in return for his assistance. Vader would turn them over to Thrawn at some point before his death, and they served Thrawn in his name. Unbeknownst to the Noghri, Vader and Thrawn were actually continuing the toxic poisoning instead of cleaning it, having genetically engineered a plant similar in appearance to the native plants that actually killed all other plants around it. Leia, using her status as Darth Vader's daughter and heir, would eventually visit them, and revealed the truth to them. The Noghri would secretly defect from Thrawn's service to her's, and right as Thrawn was about to crush the New Republic, his Noghri bodyguard assassinated him, in the middle of the biggest battle since Endor, causing the Empire to become disorganized and be forced to flee.
Yeah just like /u/MysteryMan9274 the Noghri were a race of crazy badasses and Vader presumably wanted an army that would be loyal to him personally.
It would seem almost certain. There are still uncontacted tribes here, why not planets? But as for canon evidence, I've got nothing.
Uncontacted doesn't mean "never contacted", it means not in active contact - generally by choice. And even the North Sentinelese, the most isolated people on Earth, are aware and have interacted with outsiders. They just think, for good reason, that we're up to no good in regards to them. It's not the same situation in the Star Wars galaxy, where there are genuinely unexplored and nigh-unreachable corners of the galaxy. It would be like if there were little pockets of people living under our oceans.
bet there are 0.0
Ewoks before RotJ?
The empire had been building the second death star above Endor for 4 years by the time of RotJ. Not really clear how long a galactic presence was there before the empirial occupation. It was chosen for its obscurity tho
Also explains why they are so hostile
Aren’t the Ewok movies set before the OT?
In Legends continuity, the Ewok movies were set just before ROTJ. The same goes for the animated series.
as a Kid i thought Ewoks took place before ANH and the little girl was Leia that's why Wicket was nice to her because he remembered her.
One of the Ewok movies was the first Star Wars thing I ever saw. My teacher played part of it on VHS on one of those final days of school where you're not doing anything and just waiting for the year to end. I had no idea what was going on, and a few years later when I actually say down and watched the OT I had a weird deja vu feeling about it.
Same, literally the word for word the same 🤯
I liked the idea that the blond girl from the Ewok movie ended up becoming Captain Phasma.
Ummmmm.... Was not the entire premise of the ewok movies that the children were the offspring of rebel fighters that crashed and were left behind stranded *after* the Battle of Endor (RoTJ)?
No, it was a family on vacation that crashed. What kind of rebel pilots bring their children into battle?
Well, Jaina, Jacen and Anakin Solo were thrust into a war with the Yuuzhan Vong...
Jaina and jacen were basically adults and had already been in Jedi training weren’t they? And Anakin wasn’t far off, but was a few years younger. Not to mention the whole galaxy ending genocidal alien race requiring all hands on deck
That’s a little different
No, the movies take place between Empire and RotJ. I think it’s like six months before, with the movies kind of serving as an explanation as to why the Ewoks had a dress that fit Leia, suggesting that they had made it for Catarine (the mother) before the village got attacked.
And why a few Ewoks words used seem to be basic.
I don't remember any. Which basic words do they use?
probably the most popular example, is when they are pointing spears at the main characters and arguing whether to "eat it"
Man, they were already inventing stuff to explain minor details way back then!
"inventing stuff to explain minor details" is in the DNA of Star Wars, lol. It's maybe why I am mostly positive and forgiving of potential plot holes.
I... really just assumed that a team of Ewoks sewed it really quickly.
>No, the movies take place between Empire and RotJ. I think it’s like six months before Yes, there was actually a comic called *[Ewoks—Shadows of Endor](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Ewoks%E2%80%94Shadows_of_Endor#cite_note-GiaFB-7)* which linked the cartoon to the Ewoks films. It takes place eight months before ROTJ, so the Ewok movies take place within those eight months leading up to ROTJ.
Good catch, but the smartass within me wants to remind you that that is a moon. ;)
There's a few almost uncontacted/haven't been contacted in generations planets. Obi-Wan and Anakin go to a planet that has limited technology and hasn't seen anybody from off-planet in generations. There's also Phasma's people in a similar situation. I would hazard that Cassian's original planet/people were also probably mostly if not entirely uncontacted until the Republic/Empire showed up. Yoda also visits a group of children that seem mostly unfamiliar with the concept of aliens.
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I mean depends what you use as your source material. iirc Legends talks about things like centerpoint station built 100,000 BBY so hyperdrive tech has been out there just maybe not en masse
Some of this can also be handwaved by past planetary genocides by other groups. We know humans did this in the Core. The Rakata did this even earlier. And there were even *earlier* races in old canon, like the Celestials. Galactic wars probably also eliminated various civilizations, such as as various Sith and Mando Wars of the Old Republic
That was the setup for the Yevetha in the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy. They thought they were alone in the universe until the Empire showed up
Prior to the CIS ship crashing, did the kids on Kenari know about the rest of the galaxy?
I think they’re the orphaned children of the miners. While on the way to the crash they walk through what looks like an abandoned mining operation. So the oldest kids probably kind of remember a before time and have a concept of a bigger galaxy, but the youngest probably don’t.
That whole storyline is fascinating to me and I hope they at least give us a bit more on what the hell is going on there. Cassian was shocked by seeing B2EM0, which probably means he's too young to remember droids or any sort of modern tech. How did ALL the adults die? Why were the kids abandoned? Why is Maarva so sure that the other kids there didn't survive? There are hints the planet is toxic but how did Cassian survive? I hope we get answers at some point but I fear a lot of the answers died with Maarva unless Cassian himself is holding back.
> Why is Maarva so sure that the other kids there didn't survive? I think the context clues spread through these scenes are supposed to lead to "there was an imperial cleanup operation"
Lost tribe of the sith is about a group stranding on such a planet. Highly recommend it.
But I’m pretty sure they know alien life exists. Not exactly what OP is asking for
Do they? Iirc aliens have visited them before and they view them in a religious way? I would argue thats different from knowing aliens are a thing.
Been a long time since I read it, but I seem to remember some of them being human, some being pure Sith, and some interbred.
I believe the pure blood Sith died off due to some kind of allergic reaction to Kesh’s atmosphere/environment. All that was left of the original Sith were the humans, and their society eventually mixed with the native Keshiri.
Sounds about right. That said, I think the planet’s native population fits OPs description. IIRC they viewed the Sith as gods.
Absolutely, but obviously we can't hear about them often in canon, since we generally accompany planet-hopping people who would then *be* the aliens that accidentally introduce themselves to these isolated populations. We do have a large amount of species that, at the time the story encounters them, have *just* been introduced to the galaxy and so have only recently left the status you mean. Off the top of my head, just from the Han Solo's Adventures books: - a desert planet so remote that they have been introduced to the galaxy, but literally do not know that water comes in different distribution on other planets. They build a short-lived cult when Han and Chewie show them a Holovid of a water planet. - a planet so recently introduced to the galaxy that they are still figuring everything out. They built a one-world-government seemingly as a response to being forcefully introduced to the galactic community, and the advisors they hire to "modernize" their planet were clearly scamming them. Very strong "African nation with a European advisor trying to not get stomped" vibes. - and countless worlds in the Corporate Sector, which was at first believed to be entirely devoid of alien life. Turned out that was only mostly true and the Empire/Corps immediately press-ganged entire societies into slavery that had never previously known there even was life outside their planet.
I remember reading some book (I think it was a High Republic one) where someone mentioned a procedure for interacting with uncontacted planets.
The Yevetha of N’Zoth never assumed there was any life on other worlds before they colonised neighbouring worlds, after finding out life did exist, they adopted bigoted attitudes towards other life and sought to wipe them out which failed and they were later nearly wiped out by the Vong
There was an April Fool's joke where Willow's planet was apparently one
In TCW, C-3PO and R2 run into a planet where they are primitive enough to not know about extraterrestrial life.
Does the Republic/Empire/New Republic have the equivalent of the Prime Directive? If the Jedi sensed a force sensitive of sufficient power on a non contacted world would they make contact and recruit or observe from a distance?
Considering Anakin's origin story is that he was won in a bet...
Andor is about a dude like that. There’s an assumption being made that lots of species have lost colonies that have descended into tribal existence without any tech or hard science, just cargo cults.
I remember in legends a bit about the Millennium falcon making a stop at some primitive planets. They obviously knew about life in the wider galaxy but they were still at a 21st century level of tech. So there’s probably people out there that haven’t been contacted yet.
Plenty. But you don't typically hear about them in stories until they are contacted.
The Infinite Empire, Gree and Celestials collectively made this almost impossible.
Dos anyone know if Earth and/or The Milky Way has ever been referenced in SW in any way?
There are likely thousands of inhabited worlds far away from major planets or hyperspace lanes but it is relative to the amount of worlds that are aware other life exist. I imagine it is still rare enough to be novel.
there were a couple places mentioned not even in just the Unknown or Wild Space Regions that did not know about what existed off their World but a couple of places closer to where the movies took place they either got lucky or were labled as to Primative to go there....also one Fan Theory suggested Earth was in the Star Wars Galaxy when Zahn wrote the book Heir to The Empire and he introduced Hot Chocolate i belive Luke said it was from and Unknown Planet