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.
My own headcanon is that it was the Rakatta during their empire. They terraformed/terra-engineered a bunch of planets to have a baseline for carbon based life (oxygenated atmospheres, acceptable gravity, fruit bearing plants and the like.)
@@Flint_Inferno There have been sci-fi stories where people tried to terraform a place and fucked it up royal. Mass effect has jungle-planet Pragia is overrun by choking hypergrowth caused by industrially-mutated plant species. Originally, Pragia was covered in fertile volcanic soil and not much else. Star citizen has microTech which after an error got unusually dense cloud production resulting in freezing the planet not cooling it.
(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.
They would also need some sort of pumps to transport nutrients from the roots up... The way trees on Earth do it is suction created by water evaporating from the leaves, and there is a hard height limit for that working.
@@travcollierI wonder if the trees have some sort of lake system where so far up the tree there’s an internal lake of sorts before more tubes pull the water up further.
The empires main issue was their were space speciesist ,if they just wanted to control everything and treat their citizens with more decency their wouldn't have been as much push back but the committed many genocides decreased the living standard and had favorite species and enslaved others
And how are they going to do that when your in orbit bombarding them with mass drivers? Yes you may lose a few stormtroopers but the threat of wiping out the entire bloodline of anyone that dis-arms an imperial subject is incentive enough to make them calm down. You have to remember when your the bad guys you don't have to worry about little things like morales or been good and decent.
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.
I knew general idea already but looked up some more exact numbers and yeah real spiders can also do up to around a thousand in several species, but only 1%-10% survive, with part of that being them eating each other, so I would never expect billions in a few gens. Your second point is valid though but also not too surprising imo
It's not always predators, some species lay thousands of eggs because a creature eats those eggs. Or their young are really vulnerable. Woolies literally eat those eggs all the time.
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.
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).
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! 😅
Id like to know why are so many planets that they inhabit desolate and not favorable for habitation? And why with the availability of building materials do they choose to make the cities out of mud?
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.
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
I for some reason feel like there was also something like that all the way back in the original Thrawn trilogy, but I'm not sure as it's been over a year since I last read it, actually it may be over 2 at this point
@@Dragoninja26You are correct, when Leia goes to Kashyyyk in the second book it's mentioned how wookies spend so much of their time in trees using their claws.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
i recommend if you want that vibe check out the original KOTOR game, they have a pretty lengthy story that takes place in the Taris underworld. That's what got me hooked on the courscant underworld in the first place.
there is the time of the invasion by the yuuzhong vong where a cast out leader was building a force in the depths of the former capital. he worked throughout the undercity gaining followers to help the new republic out of spite using a false face organism to change his appearance a bit.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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 😂
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.
No there are no wolves in Olympic NP. There are advocacy organizations trying to get them reintroduced but, so far it hasn’t happened. Yes, Olympic NP is far from being terrifying.
Hello There, Fellow Washingtonian ! Central, here. Damn I miss early morning ferry trips to the continent's only rain forest, to harvest the local mass appeal mycelium. It made me a really popular and Fun Guy. 🤓
I want to turn Earth into a megaflora-dominated planet where continents are covered by forests of any sizes. Where fauna lives and grow stronger under the benevolent protection of this layer of flora. That's the Earth I want. No plastic, no pollution, no wastelands or deserts of sort... a planet thriving with life.
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.
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.
The Wookies are not even from Kashyyk, the Infinite Empire brought them there as slave labor from an Unknown homeworld. Some think in it might be in the Unknown Regions, in fact in an unreleased EU novel with Thrawn in his first days in wider galaxy he would recognized a Wookie, but never say how he knew what they are. Suggesting the Chiss encountered or knew of the secret Wookie homeworld in the Unknown regions. The whole Lasat secret homeworld in Wild Space nebula/protostar cluster is suspected to be lifted/inspired from this unpublished story. It should be noted that the Rakatan Star Fortress terraforming machine still works (though in malfunctioning state) to time of OTL. As all Star Fortress tech is self repairing, Force powered (dark side powered which has corrupted parts of the planet) at least in part and could theoretically operate forever.
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.
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.
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 ...
Especially when it's been pronounced one way in all media since it was first mentioned. And sometimes I've noticed some of the big SW content creators just like being different for the sake of it.
@@NinjaTyler There was a voice actor named Anthony Heald who did a lot of the Rogue Squadron series audiobooks.....he was horrible with established place and person names....for example, called it Corus-cant with the second c not silent. Drove me crazy.
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.
I would probably do that but I would bring a disruptor with me just in case of zombies
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.
"Oops, we just planted a forest 😮"
Lol I love that actually
My own headcanon is that it was the Rakatta during their empire. They terraformed/terra-engineered a bunch of planets to have a baseline for carbon based life (oxygenated atmospheres, acceptable gravity, fruit bearing plants and the like.)
Would make sense with how the rakatans were screwing around with them.
@@Flint_Inferno There have been sci-fi stories where people tried to terraform a place and fucked it up royal. Mass effect has jungle-planet Pragia is overrun by choking hypergrowth caused by industrially-mutated plant species. Originally, Pragia was covered in fertile volcanic soil and not much else. Star citizen has microTech which after an error got unusually dense cloud production resulting in freezing the planet not cooling it.
@@TheNinjaSandwichGaming Makes since if you want to live everywhere. Not every world is habitable so better get work on making it habitable.
(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.
if it helps, the trees were referenced being as hard as steel
They would also need some sort of pumps to transport nutrients from the roots up... The way trees on Earth do it is suction created by water evaporating from the leaves, and there is a hard height limit for that working.
@@travcollierI wonder if the trees have some sort of lake system where so far up the tree there’s an internal lake of sorts before more tubes pull the water up further.
The trees on kashyyyk are used to make gunships hulls it has its own name called Wroshyr wood
Those trees were brought over from wookies home world
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.
The empires main issue was their were space speciesist ,if they just wanted to control everything and treat their citizens with more decency their wouldn't have been as much push back but the committed many genocides decreased the living standard and had favorite species and enslaved others
@@isopodslug6365 How very human of them.
Nah... these are just animals and easily dispatched.
They were friends with Yoda. That's why the Empire was suspicious of them.
A moral story to the Empire: Never screw with the Wookies. Their known for tearing your arms off
And how are they going to do that when your in orbit bombarding them with mass drivers?
Yes you may lose a few stormtroopers but the threat of wiping out the entire bloodline of anyone that dis-arms an imperial subject is incentive enough to make them calm down.
You have to remember when your the bad guys you don't have to worry about little things like morales or been good and decent.
They're* And heartily agreed, albeit the galaxy should know that lesson.
They should've just let the Wookies win
Or shoot from the trees
Soldier: The trees speak Wookies
Soldier: Acho
Tree: Waaaawa
Soldier: They are all around us
@@jaisummons2304 Wookies, “It’s over, Imps! We have the high ground!”
The bowcaster is proof of wookie ingenuity. Chewbacca made one by taking a power pack from a stormtrooper's blaster. 💀
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.
I knew general idea already but looked up some more exact numbers and yeah real spiders can also do up to around a thousand in several species, but only 1%-10% survive, with part of that being them eating each other, so I would never expect billions in a few gens. Your second point is valid though but also not too surprising imo
It's not always predators, some species lay thousands of eggs because a creature eats those eggs.
Or their young are really vulnerable.
Woolies literally eat those eggs all the time.
I want a Star wars open world RPG where I don't have to get involved in the war but can do whatever I want
@@isopodslug6365 a lot of us want that. Just venture the galaxy for fun.
@Ni-dk7ni Star Peace: A New Tourist
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.
Your not missing anything with the novels, since Disney took over they have been unreadable.
What about the Droid attack on the Wookies?
this is important
Your thoughts dwell on your mother
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).
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.
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! 😅
Id like to know why are so many planets that they inhabit desolate and not favorable for habitation? And why with the availability of building materials do they choose to make the cities out of mud?
@@richardbutton1179
Which species/group are you referring too, in this case?
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.
He's doing it on purpose little fucker
A lot of content creators mispronounce words on purpose so people comment on it
Have you ever heard George Lucas pronounce names??? I swear he does it on purpose. But he doesn't use the known screen names.
It is a trick at the 2 minute mark he says it right
He pronounces it differently every time he says it.
I feel like when I was younger, there were only Two Y's in Kashyyk. Now it's Kashyyyk? What's next? Kashyyyyk? Kashyyyyyyyyyk?
I feel the same way. Must be a Mandela Effect.
Petition to add a fourth y in Kashyyyk 🗿
Kyskyyyk
Kyyyshyyyk
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.
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
I for some reason feel like there was also something like that all the way back in the original Thrawn trilogy, but I'm not sure as it's been over a year since I last read it, actually it may be over 2 at this point
@@Dragoninja26You are correct, when Leia goes to Kashyyyk in the second book it's mentioned how wookies spend so much of their time in trees using their claws.
It's crazy to think that this historical planet first appeared in the Star Wars Holiday Special
I didn't even think about that
Not only does Earth have a tilt , it also has an elliptical orbit .
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.
How about a video on the different moons and planets of mandolore. These seem to have a huge history for the Mandos
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.
Forest planet is the deadliest, even harsher than Mustafar.
Kinda makes you wonder how much more scary wookies would be seen if they used their claws on the empire
Using their claws in combat was a sign of great dishonour. Wookiees have been banished for such an act.
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.
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.
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.
Can we get - or do we already have somewhere - a story that takes place on Coruscant's actual planetary surface?
i recommend if you want that vibe check out the original KOTOR game, they have a pretty lengthy story that takes place in the Taris underworld. That's what got me hooked on the courscant underworld in the first place.
there is the time of the invasion by the yuuzhong vong where a cast out leader was building a force in the depths of the former capital. he worked throughout the undercity gaining followers to help the new republic out of spite using a false face organism to change his appearance a bit.
There are a couple of stories in the Expanded Universe in which there were characters made their way to the lower levels, such as Kyp.
As far as I know, no a few stories about the underworld but nothing that goes to the planet surface
@@GenerationTech Yeah Me too - Taris is what's making think of how Coruscant looks underneath all the glitz and glamour above
Thanks for doing all these amazing videos 💌
Good video. Like this style so far.
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.
No wonder why the bowcaster is so powerful. It has to be to survive Kashyyyk.
Nice Job! Love this video
0:42 Kaichek?
I was expecting to see clips from the infamous ‘Christmas Special’.
Yoda: good relations with the Wookies had I have
Mace Windu: excuse me, grand master?!
Yoda: stutter did I?
I wonder if this is where turles got the tree of might from
Kashyyyk was such a cool part of Kotor.
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I would like to know about the flying saucers used by Hondo Ohnaka.
you better not call it that the whole time
I like how no one is getting mad at his pronunciation of Kashyyyk. Great progress every Star Wars fan.
Who the frakk would think that Kashyykk was naturally formed ?!? Do ya even KOTOR, bro ?
Catachan Jungle Fighters: sounds like a nice place.... a fine vacation spot.
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.
As dangerous as the Shadowlands were, Jolee Bindo lived down there by himself for years. What a legend!
Star Wars lore drinking game: take a shot every time someone tries to enslave the Wookies
Thanks guys. Do one that compares ewaks and wookies
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.
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).
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
The view outside your window is insane. Where is that?
You should cover the terraforming of fenris
6:45 Great reference to Star Trek (Discovery)!
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 😂
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.
No there are no wolves in Olympic NP. There are advocacy organizations trying to get them reintroduced but, so far it hasn’t happened. Yes, Olympic NP is far from being terrifying.
Hello There, Fellow Washingtonian ! Central, here. Damn I miss early morning ferry trips to the continent's only rain forest, to harvest the local mass appeal mycelium. It made me a really popular and Fun Guy. 🤓
Kah shreck the Comment farming starwars ogre 😂
Kahsyyyk in KOTOR was awesome!
I want to turn Earth into a megaflora-dominated planet where continents are covered by forests of any sizes.
Where fauna lives and grow stronger under the benevolent protection of this layer of flora.
That's the Earth I want. No plastic, no pollution, no wastelands or deserts of sort... a planet thriving with life.
Cool video, what episodes of clone wars or Bad Batch shows more of Kashyyk?
Wait, what are we talking about here? 2 minutes later I zoned out though I'm a fan of terraforming stories...
Oooooooooo
So terraforming is a thing in Star Wars ?
Nice 😎😊
So it’s Catachan but full of furries.
...
Goddammit, you win.
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.
Still exploring the oceans.
This video was interesting timing for me, playing KotOR for the first time and just got there today
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.
I thought this was going to be the terraforming/glassing of tatooine
Can we get a video like this on Felucia?
One thing I learned do not piss off a wookie. You do well you got your hands ripped off. Like that poor lizard bastard .
Good narration voice
And if I could learn the language, I would totally go to live on Kashyyyk.
Kashyyk, the Catachan of Star Wars.
A Type II civilization could likely move and arrange planets. Star Wars is a Type III civilization, capable of moving and placing _black holes._
The Wookies are not even from Kashyyk, the Infinite Empire brought them there as slave labor from an Unknown homeworld. Some think in it might be in the Unknown Regions, in fact in an unreleased EU novel with Thrawn in his first days in wider galaxy he would recognized a Wookie, but never say how he knew what they are. Suggesting the Chiss encountered or knew of the secret Wookie homeworld in the Unknown regions. The whole Lasat secret homeworld in Wild Space nebula/protostar cluster is suspected to be lifted/inspired from this unpublished story.
It should be noted that the Rakatan Star Fortress terraforming machine still works (though in malfunctioning state) to time of OTL. As all Star Fortress tech is self repairing, Force powered (dark side powered which has corrupted parts of the planet) at least in part and could theoretically operate forever.
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.
pretty cool the planet just has one season.
Reminds me of Pandora from Avatar with those trees
wood that can be used as metal?... genetics say what?...
Is generation tech just allergic to doing proper pronunciations of Star Wars names??
Definitely but it's something I've learned to live with lol
KOTOR 1 Kashyyk on the forest floor was dangerous.
The way he pronounces Kashyyk makes my eyeball twitch
I wonder how tasty those nine foot tall Ewoks taste like. WookEewokicken. That’s a chicken cooked in an Ewok cooked in a Wookiee.
"Trees that can live up to 50k years old"
. . . . . . . Trees can die of old age?
Yup. They just basically hollow up or uproot themselves or just simply stop living.
@kaganbozok7303 huh. . . . . Learn something new everyday.
Like anything living thing cell reproduction isn't perfect otherwise age wouldn't be a factor in death.
@@NinjaTyler I'm just saying I've never heard of a tree dying of old age.
@adarkwind4712 as should every body else my brother.
I love the Wookiees.
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.
Wait, you didn't mention Sly Marbo! 😁
I would have thought Felucia was way worse.
I think the wroshyr trees were inspired by a combination of redwoods and mangroves
I always thought it was KASH-EEK
Maybe the abundance of life makes and metal incorporated into the plant life, makes sensors less effective.
... why do you pronounce Kashyyyk a different way each time you say it XD
yeah, but you should check their Life Day parties
I’d live there. Mid level, close to the Shadowlands
Cash-eek 😂
this plant reminds of catachan in warhammer 40K
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 ...
Why does this guy sound like he’s just watched 47 Tate brothers videos.
So basically they're like the krogan from mass effect?😂
Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Danke ...
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.
Especially when it's been pronounced one way in all media since it was first mentioned.
And sometimes I've noticed some of the big SW content creators just like being different for the sake of it.
@@NinjaTyler There was a voice actor named Anthony Heald who did a lot of the Rogue Squadron series audiobooks.....he was horrible with established place and person names....for example, called it Corus-cant with the second c not silent. Drove me crazy.