The Accidental Terraforming that Created the Deadliest Planet in the Galaxy 

I have a fan theory that, the uniform weather and ecology that is present on so many planet in the Star Wars galaxy, and the fact that few planets, moons, or asteroids in canon have non-standard gravity and the fact that so many planets, moons, and asteroids have atmospheres leads me to believe that many of these planets, moons, and asteroids were partially (or poorly) terraformed.

I love how there is dedicated treasure hunters going into the lower levels of Coruscant, looking for hidden caches or back doors to valuable places.

One of the Empires biggest mistakes was making enemies of the wookies. Imagine the fear that would come from an army of eight + foot stormtroopers.

(Unless Kashyyyk has lower gravity than standard) the trees would also have to be made of something stronger than Earth trees. Like maybe their structure is closer to carbon nanotubes or they incorporate metals into the structure.

A moral story to the Empire: Never screw with the Wookies. Their known for tearing your arms off

The wyyyschokk giant spider is even worse than it sounds. It's noted as being able to lay up to a thousand eggs a year. Just one of these Shelobs is bad enough, but that egg-laying rate suggests two equally terrifying things. First, a thousand young a year suggests their population starting with a single egg-layer would number in the _billions_ within just a few generations if left undisturbed. That's not quite up to Tyranid or Zerg levels of swarm reproduction, but it's definitely up there. That's not the worst of it, though. No: the worst part is that generating massive batch-orders of young like that is the usual evolutionary response against a predator the prey can't outfight or avoid, and instead has to survive the predator by attrition. Since Kashyyyk _isn't_ completely overrun with swarms of car-sized giant spiders, there must be something keeping their numbers in check. That is, as fearsome and terrifying as the wyyyschokk spiders are, _there's something even nastier out there_ in those towering forests.

The bowcaster is proof of wookie ingenuity. Chewbacca made one by taking a power pack from a stormtrooper's blaster. 💀

after watching a good number of your videos, I just want to say you have the best Star Wars analysis channel on this site. I dont read the novels, but I do play the games and watch the movies/TV shows. Your method of incorporating real life scenarios with the lore of Star Wars is very impressive. Thank you for taking the time to create meaningful videos that offer a good balance of insight and humour.

What about the Droid attack on the Wookies?

Honestly, the Terraforming of the Planets in Star Wars is something that I'd like more discussion about. Granted, sometimes its just "these Celestial Force Gods rearranged this entire Solar System" levels of esoteric but... well, we can still try! 😅

Why you pronouning Kashyyyk like (Ky sheck)? Previous star wars games have all called is Kashyyyk (Ka sheek), even the clone wars cartoon refers to it as such.

Petition to add a fourth y in Kashyyyk 🗿

4:55 so they did the same thing I did that time in Minecraft when I planted redwood saplings at the spawn location not knowing exactly how big them things got (and how meny dark places they make to spawn monsters).

I think you forgot to mention that Wookie's claws are culturally tools, not weapons (though the only source I have for this is Kotor). The Claws are essential to Wookies' ability to climb the trees, for safety, navigation. To use the Claws as weapons makes them like an animal. In a way, Wookie's use of their claws for primarily navigation, their ability to climb, and the rare venturing to the forest florr remind me of sloths. Wookie's are giant space sloths

Allen I'm a first responder and I often listen and watch your videos when I'm on duty as i find them relaxing. You're doing good work.

Also, in Legends, the Rakatan Star Map corrupted the Force with the Dark Side, and that's why many of the fauna in the shadow lands are so deadly.

Please cover Corellia from the Expanded Universe. Corellia has been done dirty in the new... (couch, cough) "cannon". They took one of the best, and most important planets in the galaxy, and turned it into space Detroit. People need to learn how great Corellia was in the old days, before the dark times, before the mouse.

Not only does Earth have a tilt , it also has an elliptical orbit .

It's crazy to think that this historical planet first appeared in the Star Wars Holiday Special

How about a video on the different moons and planets of mandolore. These seem to have a huge history for the Mandos

The Wookiees kinda seem like they were a species engineered by the Rakata for the purpose of being servant farmers on Kashyyyk. They’re view of themselves as tenants of the planet, not masters, the fact that they mature quickly but live very long, and they’re intimate connection with nature gives them very favorable traits as a slave farmer species. Of course, their strength and arm-ripping tendencies might be less favorable traits to an empire like the Rakata.

Alan, you really are a city boy, aren't ya? The rainforest is a place of life and energy and peace. I live in the Tasmanian rainforest, which is nearly untouched by man. It is a wild and dynamic place that just cries out to be explored. And so long as you respect the space and everything living in it, it shouldn't be a scary place at all.

Forest planet is the deadliest, even harsher than Mustafar.

Dude i wish someone would make a Wookiee game that was just on Kashyyk. Like you started out on the top levels of the trees and as you level up you can go lower or out into the dark forrest or whatever its called.

Can we get - or do we already have somewhere - a story that takes place on Coruscant's actual planetary surface?

That's what I like about your channel, you examine the SW universe in greater detail and show things the average person won't really see. It'd be so amazing to explore our galaxy/universe and see all the crazy types of planets that are out there.

Kinda makes you wonder how much more scary wookies would be seen if they used their claws on the empire

Kashyyyk was such a cool part of Kotor.

Kashyyyk spent 25 years in constant war and had seen plenty of action prior to the Clone Wars, and yet roughly 2/3 of the natural environment remained untouched and unconquered, even by the natives. Even in the time of the First Order, Kashyyyk was still wild and untamed. It's unlikely that anyone besides the Wookies could ever permanently occupy the planet.

Welcome to the jungle! We've got fun and games. I have been in Earth's only temperate rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula of North America, USA, Washington State. It is located on a large peninsula and small mountain range between the Pacific ocean and the West coast of America near the boarder of the USA and Canada. I wouldn't say that it felt dark or terrifying, but more like a vast, living cave. Everything was alive. Every surface was alive and the insect life was everywhere. There was plenty of slugs, too, including a species that was poisonous for animals to eat that was bright yellow and could grow to the size of a banana. That forest didn't have much in the way of large predators in to other than bears. I think there might be some wolves that have been reintroduced to it now to help control the deer population. With it being temperate, the insects don't get as large and venomous as tropical rainforests, same for reptiles and amphibians, but there was a species of venomous snake present to look out for. It was dark, but then again, I have pretty good eyesight in darker areas, so that didn't bother me.

I would like to know about the flying saucers used by Hondo Ohnaka.

No wonder why the bowcaster is so powerful. It has to be to survive Kashyyyk.

I wonder if this is where turles got the tree of might from

The lack of technology made the Wookies very hard for the Empire to track with scanners. On a planet where everything was organic and isothermal, the Wookies blended in quite well.

you better not call it that the whole time

I feel like when I was younger, there were only Two Y's in Kashyyk. Now it's Kashyyyk? What's next? Kashyyyyk? Kashyyyyyyyyyk?

Who the frakk would think that Kashyykk was naturally formed ?!? Do ya even KOTOR, bro ?

Thanks for doing all these amazing videos 💌

Catachan Jungle Fighters: sounds like a nice place.... a fine vacation spot.

So it’s Catachan but full of furries.

Is generation tech just allergic to doing proper pronunciations of Star Wars names??

Haven’t seen the video but guessing is about Kotor 1 and the builder forge since it helped the planet evolve more and more with the dark side too

As dangerous as the Shadowlands were, Jolee Bindo lived down there by himself for years. What a legend!

A Type II civilization could likely move and arrange planets. Star Wars is a Type III civilization, capable of moving and placing _black holes._

You should cover the terraforming of fenris

The galaxy often sees Wookiees as primitive barbarians, because they don't rely on technology too much, or their language sounds more like the vocalizations of animals. But Wookiees are actually a force to be reckoned with. They're way smarter than what most people would give them credit for, they're expert survivalists , phyically strong, and have a ways of thinking outside the box. They need to be all that to survive on Kashyyyk. And although it seems that the first thing every dark power does after taking control of the galaxy is invading Kashyyyk and enslaving the Wookiees, they keep coming back. While Wookiees prefer using natural ressources instead of artificially created methods (such as using tamed animals as mounts instead of machines), they are capable of creating advanced tech, which often deviates from what you'd usually see around the galaxy. That catamaran ornithopter you see at 0:46, for example (an Oevvaor Jet Catamaran), or the Raddaugh Gnasp Fluttercraft (they seem to like ornithopters, I guess because they mimick nature).

Good video. Like this style so far.

Thanks guys. Do one that compares ewaks and wookies

I like how no one is getting mad at his pronunciation of Kashyyyk. Great progress every Star Wars fan.

The view outside your window is insane. Where is that?

Kashyyyk is very reminiscent of the forest planet of the "thinking forests" in Alan Dean Foster's Scifi novel _Midworld_ (1975), with a layered rainforest dominated by mile-high "home trees", with none of the sentient inhabitants of the mid-layers (as the canopy held its own share of flying predators) venturing down to the actual ground surface shrouded in eternal darkness if they could help it. Even Midworld's oceans were covered in floating vgetation. There are several plot plot parallels between James Cameron's _Avatar_ movies about the world of Pandora (though the story itself and the characters are completely different), that I've been wondering of Cameron ever read Foster's novel and subconsciously took ideas from it or if it's just one of those obvious "story writes itself" parallels in a story about an Earth corporation that tries to exploit a global rainforest on an alien planet.

It's funny that in Star Wars (Star Trek does it too, am I allowed to talk about them?), that all planets have a monoecosystem. They are entirely a forest, desert, snow or molten rock planet. That planet that Anakin and Obi Wan fought on, I can't see how you would even be able to breath.

Nice Job! Love this video

The thing thats always interesting about this stuff is just the mystery, and the sheer amount of wonder that a person can have when thinking about them. I find it sad that my generations and the surrounding generations will never know what its like to truly explore something new and unmapped. Too late to explore uncharted lands, too early to explore space.

wood that can be used as metal?... genetics say what?...

Its Ka-sheek. I'd rexommend audiobooks of Timothy Zahn. As great as your videos are, pronunciation of some of the basic names/terms is a bit cringey.

Lmfao, my internet goes down, the thumbnail is loading when i read the title of the video. I'm literally prepared myself to witness the appearance of the deadliest planet in the whole galaxy. And then boom! It's just f*ckin' Kashyyyk.

6:45 Great reference to Star Trek (Discovery)!

Kahsyyyk in KOTOR was awesome!

0:42 Kaichek?

KOTOR 1 Kashyyk on the forest floor was dangerous.

Reminds me of Pandora from Avatar with those trees

Earh's Amazon turned out to be artificial

Can we get a video like this on Felucia?

I was expecting to see clips from the infamous ‘Christmas Special’.

Cool video, what episodes of clone wars or Bad Batch shows more of Kashyyk?

This video was interesting timing for me, playing KotOR for the first time and just got there today

And if I could learn the language, I would totally go to live on Kashyyyk.

Wait, what are we talking about here? 2 minutes later I zoned out though I'm a fan of terraforming stories...

Kashyyk, the Catachan of Star Wars.

Oooooooooo So terraforming is a thing in Star Wars ? Nice 😎😊

One thing I learned do not piss off a wookie. You do well you got your hands ripped off. Like that poor lizard bastard .

this plant reminds of catachan in warhammer 40K

Star Wars lore drinking game: take a shot every time someone tries to enslave the Wookies

Maybe the abundance of life makes and metal incorporated into the plant life, makes sensors less effective.

I’d live there. Mid level, close to the Shadowlands

I thought this was going to be the terraforming/glassing of tatooine

yeah, but you should check their Life Day parties

I think the wroshyr trees were inspired by a combination of redwoods and mangroves

Similar principles to harry selden's universe

Good narration voice

It’s pronounced ka-sheek not ky-sheek

The way he pronounces Kashyyk makes my eyeball twitch

Another perfect world for Space Marine recruit population insertion

How many times do you really need to say kashyyk haha. Each time was throwing me off due to the extreme pronunciation lol. Still love your videos though so I'll allow it 😂

I would have thought Felucia was way worse.

I always thought it was KASH-EEK

I love the Wookiees.

Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

Nothing about the madclaws?

Wait, you didn't mention Sly Marbo! 😁

Trees that grow kilometers in height? Their trunks would have to be hundreds of meters in diameter, if they haven't collapsed under their own weights ...

You’re trolling us with the way you’re pronouncing Kashyyyk right?

pretty cool the planet just has one season.

They had a Genesis device they crank it to 11 and ripped the nob off

So basically they're like the krogan from mass effect?😂

Danke ...

I once again voice my gripe about the Wookies: The amount of fur on a wookie would be better suited to an Ice world; a wookie should die in the intense humidity of the jungle environment.

Cash-eek 😂

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