Princess Leia's sellout of Dantooine
Was that wrong?
shareMaybe she had some asshole ex-boyfriend on Dantooine
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She already knew Dantooine was deserted and she was scrambling for something to say to prevent Alderann being blown up that instant.
shareNever trust rebel scum.
shareShe was looking at it from a big picture perspective and sacrificed the Dantooinites to save more people in the long run. Well attempted to I guess.
shareMore people or her HER people? I guess we'll never know...
(Until someone comes with "Well, actually it's says in the 1983 EU novel 'Tales from Dantooine' that the population was five hundred million which is significantly less than Alderaan's three billion as noted in...' 😂)
More of the rebel people who were fighting the oppressive empire. Thus the lives of those in the rebellion are more valuable than those who are not. The few/millions die so the rebellion can overthrow the empire and more live in the long run.
Disney says the EU is no longer canon so we'll never know. Why Dantooine though? Why not Tatooine or Dagobah? Sounds like she had a grudge...
DANtooine sounds too close to
TATtooine to me.
Couldn't they TRY to be original with the planet names?
no, that was intentional,
it was meant to imply some consistency in naming patterns,
just like we have places named pennsylvania / transylvania
mos espa / mos eisley are similar to san diego / san francisco
illenium / millenium reminds me of kansas / arkansas
As I said, lack of originality.
lol
shareYou are confusing creativity with linguistic consistency. A common error in conlanging (creating languages) is making every word different in construction. Real languages develop patterns. Tattooine/Dantooine, Mos Eisley/Mos Espa help to make the language sound real.
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No, it was deserted and she didn't have a whole lot of time to think of a response.
shareIt's Tatooine. And maybe it's because the planet is mainly inhabbited by criminals.
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