Why is half the Star Wars Galaxy UNEXPLORED? | Star Wars Legends 

If you mark an area as "Unknown," "Forbidden," or "Restricted," regardless of the genre, everyone is going to want to go there.

It boggles my mind that they didn’t do this for the sequel trilogy. But we were insisted that we must get a Tattooine 2.0, Hoth 2.0, Death Star 3.0, and Rebels vs Empire 2.0.

Interesting thought: The reason we haven't made contact with aliens is that Earth is too far away from any hyperspace route.

"I left for the Unknown Regions, determined to lose myself. I learned that unknown was not the same as empty." - Darth Krayt

"Why is half the Star Wars Galaxy UNEXPLORED?" Old Republic players: *_"Allow us to introduce ourselves"_*

It's crazy to me that people are creative enough to come up with all this stuff so that we can talk about it like it's actually real.

Everybody gangsta till you enter the unknown regions, and your ship says "Warning: Entering ecological dead zone"

Traveling to another planet in Star Wars is like walking to the store.

The other side is where Warhammer: 40K is happening and nobody wants to get involved

Real reason: Gives authors more freedom

I would actually like a Disney plus series about a group of explorers exploring the unknown region.

"You haven't unlocked this region yet"

A dreadnought like the Supremacy mapping star systems and discovering random anomalies in the unknown region could make a pretty cool story.

A Lovecraftian story taking place in the Star Wars universe could actually work.

I love that the galaxy is like this so you can make up your own stories and not have them affect the wider universe

"Pull back! Pull back now!" "We've got to warn the Republic!" "The unknown regions are unsafe! I repeat! The unknown regions are UNSAFE!"

"If an item is not in our library, then it does not exist"

"If you continue exploring the Unknown Regions, you'll have to call them something else. " Wedge Antilles.

I wonder WHY in canon they are making so many Force-Related planets close to the Unknown Regions. Jedha, Exegol, Ahch-To and Illum. Could it mean that in canon the Unknown Regions will be related to the origin of the Force Users?

Why is half of the Star Wars galaxy unexplored? Me, an intellectual: "Because they haven't explored it yet"

Last time I was this early, Anakin didn't hate sand yet.

Because I live on that half , stay off my space lawn

Considering the existing droid tech , it's bewildering that unmanned exploration was not done for thousands of years by the Republic or the Sith .

Why aren't there deadly radiation levels at the Galactic Core, like in the Milky Way?

I need a star wars game about exploring unknown space.

"You're off of the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters!" -Captain Barbosa

The unexplored western region of the galaxy is really just where Earth is located and the barrier is the fictional characters unable to cross dimensions into the real world.

Makes you realise just how aggorant Jocasta Nu was when she said "If it isn't on our system, it does not exist!"

Space wraiths, starweirds, Darth Nihilus, Abeloth, the black wing project and worst of all, the mnggal-mnggal. Those are just a few examples of why most people decide not to explore the unknown, the potential of unknown, terrifying creatures who have such a reputation in their stories that it can scare just about anyone and make anyone else not even think about exploring past the known galaxy, the horror of star wars is way scarier than any other horror icon such as Alien or The Thing.

_“Space is _*_big._*_ You just won't believe how _*_vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big_*_ it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to _*_space.”_* - Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_

Because seeing how screwed up the explored half is, nobody wants to add to it.

Such a shame that none of this was explored in the new star wars movies. There's so much here which in my opinion is more than screen worthy. SMH Disney.

"Why is half the Star Wars Galaxy UNEXPLORED?" *Mnggal-Mnggal and Celestials have entered the chat* "Allow us to introduce ourselves."

it would be cool for a movie that takes place in the unknown regions in my opinion possibly about a jedi who escaped order 66 by going into the unknown regions

I wanna see a Star Wars “documentary” that explains all the planets, aliens, legends, and other interesting stuff in the EU and it will be narrated by Neil Dgrass Tyson

"Here be dragons." Who wants to tangle with the force-sensitive hyperspace dragons prowling the unknown regions of the Western galaxy?

In the 40k lore... The empire of man have the most biggest territory but only like 1% of the Galaxy, meaning many unexplored planets in between them. Heck in reality planet Earth could be inside an alien territory but never know it... The Galaxy is that big.

Every gamer knows that "unexplored" and "restricted zones" means loot drops available😗

Palpatine: The Jedi are pathetic Also Palpatine: Kills an elderly man in his sleep

The sequel trilogy could have had their own Thanos with Abeloth. Oh well...

Because Earth is in the Unknown Regions and we have ENOUGH to deal with lol

When the rebel find Death Star wasn't actually created to kill rebel forces but something much more darker than the force

I find Abeloth to be scarier than most SCPs

They could make a real jaw dropper, of a horror series with this franchise. I’m picturing event horizon, with Thai fighters.

would be funny if westwards would be this huge as empire thats like "yeah we know you east guys exist but you do all this crazy shit so we decided to block you out"

Disney needs to have a horror branch of the star wars universe.

Theory: The Force is blocking the paths because it doesn't want any crazy Skywalker family tiffs from entering and ruining the rest of the galaxy. ;)

There is one extremely important meta-fact that everyone needs to consider. Nearly the entire lore of the Star Wars Galaxy, outside of the material in the movies, was created for the WEG Star Wars RPG by various writers, mostly without any input from Lucasfilm. That game & the material within it served as the seed for the lion’s share of the EU.

I find it interesting that it’s the eastern side that is explored, and everything west was unknown. It feels heavily influenced by western exploration in our own history

My daddy said he was going to the unknown regions to get milk...

The Covenant sweating hard while looking at all these planets that could be glassed

Gee I don’t know. The woman with the creepy smile and blood dripping from her mouth might have something to do with it. Lol. Great video

Did this boi pronounce Mario “mare-ee-o”

It’s so refreshing to be able to talk about star wars without having to argue about weather or not Disney ruined everything. I like learning about these stories even if they’re not canon.

When I was younger, I use to imagine that Earth was in the Unknown Regions lol

Yall better get ready for Star Wars: The "West" side of the galaxy. Its going to be almost exactly the same, exept in this one "West" Mace Windu kills "West" count Duku and Jango Fette on "West" genosis. "West" skywalker still releases his anger though but only attacking sand planets.

In Kotor 2, Kreia says that the "True Sith" lie beyond the known reaches of the our galaxy. These Sith are so powerful that absorbing all the life on a planet is child's play to them. I'm so surprised this was never brought in any kind of star wars media especially since Kreia also says that Revan left the republic and their galaxy to go fight these Sith.

The Atlas explains that hyperlanes are at least in part man-made. The more people navigate a path, the more data can be uploaded to cartography networks, the that hyperlane can be optimized; rinse and repeat. Kinda like speedrunning.

Because there a giant face smiling at them?

I always wonder how much more advanced the "modern" starwars era would be advanced if they rediscovered rakaata prime..... i guess theyre looking in alderaan places 🤪........ill see myself out

You could hide entire empires in some of these "blank" areas of the map. Especially on that map at 6:30.

Long story short there are a lot of nopes

"Warning! Scanners detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms within the sector. Are you certain that whatever your doing is worth it?"

Last time I was this early, Palpatine wasn’t the senate yet

In one of the NJO books, Danni Quee brings up the in-universe theory that the Star Wars galaxy is colliding with a "Dark Matter Galaxy" that only interacts gravitationally with normal space - as the two galaxies slowly pass through each other, the gravity wells from the normal stars and the "Dark Matter stars" interact from different angles, opening and closing hyperspace routes into the Unknown Regions and also locking and unlocking different areas within that vast area.

If I remember correctly that section of the galaxy was sealed off to contain an otherwise unstopable entity. Its name is Mnggal-Mnggal

if this map was of the milky way, where would the earth lie?

How easy would it be to hide in the Galaxy? Bounty Hunting would seen impossible if someone moved offworld and just changed their name … even just changing their first name to Ben from Obi-Wan while keeping the same surname was enough to throw off the entire Empire and the Inquisitors.

It's also important to note that it should be literally impossible to go straight through the Deep Core; every single observed galaxy in the universe thus far has been shown to have a supermassive black hole. It would be absurd not to consider one exists in the galaxy far, far away as well. The gravity well any black hole creates alone would pull any ship out of hyperspace caught in its event horizon, forcing you to have to navigate around the black hole that is likely thousands of light years across. You can't just navigate through it, not even outside of realspace--and starship technology or the Force be damned. You just can't do it.

8:00 is where you start to get the answer. A long one

I find it weird that in the Clone wars most planets are treated like one nation. Like there is only one leader and if there looking for someone it's so fast but there searching an ENTIRE planet.

Imagine how many AA Batteries it would cost to hyper jump!

"We're going to look at legends..." (because the canon is a joke now).

Unknown Regions:exists Palpatine: It's free real estate

Csilla is in the Unknown Regions. I didn’t realize just how far away the Chiss homeworld was from Coruscant. They must have star maps of the Regions around their home system

The unknown regions of space is our reality and the ones separate us from them and they send visions to the people who write star wars 😂😂

Eckharts Ladder is the smartest Star Wars doge. And that is a Fact.

I like the idea that if space travel can be as risky as is sometime claimed by Star Wars, keeping track of which routes are safe should be a very complicated job.

That’s something I’ve always wondered about, given that the Milky Way is approximately 100 000 light years to across, and assuming that your travelling at around 0.2C (achievable if you have a operating fusion drive - other methods can get you up to 0.8C) that just 500 000 years to cross it just in generation ships, sure you’d need to stop, refuel and reprovision but 99% of this would be spent coasting between stars. With Clark tech like hyperdrive propulsion you could drop that to tens of thousands of years or less

Our Universe: OH MY GOD WE GOT A PERSON ON THE MOON!!! Star Wars: Pathetic

I need to explore the Unknown Regions. NPC: “Here, let me mark it on your map.” *Proceeds to mark the middle of a blank space on the map*

I just realized that the bendu is probably a celestial

QUOTE: "Unknown Regions: The westward arm of the galaxy is mapped but largely unexplored. Who knows what lurks in the dark spaces beyond the frontiers of galactic civilization?" - The Official Galaxy Map QUOTE: "If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist." ―Jocasta Nu to Obi-Wan Kenobi, responding to the notion that an unknown planet could exist somewhere in the galaxy (Ep2 AotC). So an "UNKNOWN" planet in Star Wars means nobody has visited and studied that planet and recorded it in any kind of detail, however, every star system in the whole galaxy is known of in the sense that is recorded in master maps and the Jedi archives, even those in the "unknown regions" & satellite galaxies. This is similar to remote forests and islands on Earth; we can see them all with satellites and can map out the whole world, but not every remote island or forest has been visited and studied, and some places are harder to get to. Link for the quote from galaxy map: photos.app.goo.gl/hGTwuCMPScZqx4EL7

What irritates me is that there was so much untapped potential with the sequels. I think somewhere in the movies, Snoke was said to have been from the unknown regions. Maybe they could have visited these regions, and more worldbuilding could have been done, looking at more interesting worlds and all

Grand Admiral Thrawn : I require no glory on results for my emperor

I say it’s a third!!! A third sir

Imaging that the starwars galaxy is actually the milky way and the unexplored space of the galaxy is our part of the galaxy, because funny enough, in the milky way we are left of the Galaxy

Abeloth

A few things that you didn’t mention are that species in the Unknown Regions did explore near their homeworlds, just not far enough to make contact with the Republic/Empire/New Republic. These include Chiss, Killiks, Ssi-Ruuvk, etc. Some species such as the Chiss and Nuso Esva’s species had very large territories there. Then the Empire of the Hand came around. They explored 250 sectors worth of the Unknown Regions and Wild Space. That is the vast majority of the Unknown Regions.

I couldn't imagine disney giving us this much density in lore. They'd probably explain it in one sentence like: "Space big & Scary" or "It's a story for another time"

Yo Eck can you update your rankings of the star wars movies! You inspired me to make one of my own as well.

I get the feeling somewhere it was mentioned, the Unknown Regions were vaguely mapped out, but the information was deleted. Mind you they are mapped out by someone out there. The Chiss more than likely know exactly what is out there and where. reason for them being so powerful, to defend themselves from what they know is out there. And the Rakata most definately know what is there and where everything is since they ruled the entire area as well as everywhere else. I suppose if they wanted to get technical, they could say somewhere in that area is our Earth. The reason why we dont see much alien traffic is for that reason, no one really knows we are here. Remember E.T.'s race is now canon for starwars, we got to see his race in a senate scene, and they visited earth.

Interesting parallel; one reason why there are still a surprising number of uncharted islands in the Pacific Ocean is due to the fact that all the shipping lanes followed today date back to the time when sailing ships were basically restricted to the areas known to have consistent wind currents.

The sequels had so much potential, think of all the things in star wars expanded universe But instead they created stupid characters with a stupid storyline

Good lord i wish the EU was still getting expanded as frequently as it was. There is so much potential in westward exploration, we just need an ex machina to allow it lmao

3:13 that one planet one the right called “Shinbone”

I love that the maps were sort of "spot the planets you recognise" and there's so many I didn't know. To be honest there were a lot I didn't care about but it was interesting seeing the distance between say Dantooine and Coruscant or Tython being in the dead set core, Balmorra sometimes being referred to as a Core World but not being dead set Core like Alderaan and Coruscant.

Great video, new subscriber on both channels, really liking your content and presentation. One major correction: Hyperspace lanes are NOT naturally-occurring phenomena and they do NOT make travel faster due to any inherent characteristic* other than efficient course-plotting. If you read through The Essential Atlas (or similarly reputable sources), it explicitly states, more than once, that they are merely safe pathways that have been manually mapped. That's it. They're free of gravitic mass shadows, anomalies, and other major hazards, and they're maintained by the Bureau of Ships and Services (unless it's a secret lane maintained by militaries or private parties likes Hutts and smugglers). Due to supply and demand, the MAJOR lanes are the most useful and therefore kept the most up-to-date and safe to travel upon. Most navicomputers by circa 1,000 BBY update BoSS's database periodically (storing data on each jump until uploading at a registered port) and it's a criminal offense to tamper with a ship's ability to help maintain safe hyperspace lane mappings -- literally imagine being forced to "opt-in" to sending anonymous usage data to "help improve stability/performance" on real-world software, since it's for public safety and commerce in this case. Major lanes have wider births and are endlessly maintained thanks to their heavy traffic; minor or seldom-traveled lanes may fall into "disrepair" or become outdated in the sense of no longer being safe due to stellar drift or other variables. * Technically there is one phenomenon that improves the actual efficacy of a hyperspace lane, and that is the Empire's cutting-edge practice of S-thread boosting -- an exorbitantly costly and laborious process of lacing a lane with S-thread "boosters." Not much on it, but it did pop back up in Disney's canon. It's very "recent" in Star Wars history (Original Trilogy era) and had nothing to do with the colonization or mapping of any part of the galaxy. In all other contexts, hyperlanes are said to be plain old vacuum spacetime (EDIT: and their 1:1 hyperspace-volume equivalents). They're just safe routes. If you ever want an extra fact-checker, I have a pretty hefty library of pre-Disney material and I used to do a lot of work on Wookieepedia. Just reply here if it strikes your fancy. MTFBWY

N'zoth being an actual, real planet in star wars will never *not* get me

Lets be honest Extended Universe has more and better content than anything canon under Disney.