What kind of planets?

Dude, the planet editor stretch goal is already unlocked!

Since I'm reading the Dune saga again right now, I would create a desert planet!

I think most planets will require presence of both land and water in order to be able to sustain a population. But through researching and developing certain technologies it may eventually be possible for the nuggets to survive under extreme conditions, i.e. desert world, ice world, etc.

I get what you mean, but it's a bad example, since first Star Wars movie was heavily inspired by Dune (to do them right, however, everyone was inspired by Dune series at the time). When Frank Herbert left the movie theatre after watching it, he even said that Lucas owes him beer. And with the quantity of Dune-"inspired" details in Star Wars Universe, he now owes late writer several crates.

Eh, on the thought of total desertification hiding ancient secrets/history being "owned" it could also be regarded that Frank Herbert researched a bit from Forbidden Planet (including hyperspace), though to be fair Star Wars did essentially borrow from a LOT of previous sources and themes to basically have something a bit more "science fantasy" - fantasy elements given science fiction props under the caveat written by Arthur C. Clarke.

The Seven Samurai in Space is one of the quips about Star Wars I've always liked...though that applied a bit more directly to Battle Beyond the Stars.



The extent of how they have modding...is anxiously awaited to be used. Along with the usual flavour pack mods of Star Wars and Star Trek, Mass Effect, etc. it sounds like there will be great potential for more original works.

It's a bit similar; the sandtrout were originally from elsewhere than Arrakis, IIRC revealed in the whole bit around God-Emperor Leto Atreides II and his transformations of himself and the sandtrout into the hybrid sandworm. Considering that Arrakis was said to be originally wet, the introduction of the sandtrout would have been catastrophic terraforming as it presumably killed off most other forms of life, so that the sandworms would appear to be nearly the only living things on the planet.



Not through normal space, no, but rather through a "pathway" that allows the simultaneous juxtaposition of any two points when focused by the navigator's prescience - Herbert's own take on hyperspace, and a neat one. Certainly more work to make it something of his own than what Lucas did on anything he took from Dune.


From this little tangent we have highlights on planetary history affecting the biomes along with the technology surrounding them - one of the fun bits around science fiction, ancient technology discovery.

There are a bunch of those and quite varied, though I think they would be interesting to have as end-game difficulty planets.

Nocturne readily comes to mind, of a planet undergoing so much tectonic stress that the inhabitants aren't really able to live on the surface because of volcanoes and earthquakes.  Ironically, Prometheus is the name of Nocturne's moon, and also the in-game engine for The Universim: theuniversim.com/members/introducing-prometheus/

Another good example is Fenrir - a frozen world occasionally thawed for violent volcanic events (bringing to mind something that would be interesting to script out, of periods where volcanic activity or other events could be determined by conditions around them).

So this brings to mind potential events/conditions depending upon the surroundings/conditions/phases of a planet/neighboring object.

1. Not exactly what I mean. I meant that while Forbidden planet was first deserted through a catastrophe and then deemed less habitable, Arrakis was first terraformed, which resulted in the death of most planet inhabitants. I'm not sure how do I explain this well enough.

2. I partly agree, partly disagree as there's no "fold space" to move through (in fact, the kind of take on space-folding I detest), there is normal space fold and unfold while heighliner doesn't move at all. Remember Futurama?

So you can't call it a take on hyperspace, as there's no hyperspace - there's normal space being shifted so the ship becomes placed in a new position without moving at all. In fact, heighliners can't move - their structure does not support any king of mass shift bigger than docking/undocking.

BTW, the shield is essentially the same thing with different application. That's precisely why if you use a laser on a Holzmann shield, you'll get a resonance and the whole thing goes nuclear - it just folds space around uncontrollably and that forces a thermonuclear synthesis reaction.


I'm sure you mean Planetary Annihilation by Uber Entertainment.

They should do a solar system like this one.