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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

You incredible people who spend so much time and talent piecing all of this together are literally laying the groundwork for when we develop the capabilities to do this in our own galaxy. Cheers!

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

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

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

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"

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

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.

It is hard to navigate through and overall pretty terrifying place that whenever Empire sent exploration fleet it consisted of so much firepower a Star Destroyer battle group could envy. On the plus side if Disney ever wants to go there they could spin it with a lot of horror elements and freshen things up a bit.

Real reason: Gives authors more freedom

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.

The funny part is that the hyperspace lanes could very well have been artificially created by an advanced alien civilization before the star wars era. Which means, hypothetically, they could come back to take whats theirs. In legends there are aliens that have decided to launch crusades in the SW universe only to get slapped by the ruling powers of the time. But an alien species so advanced to develop hyperspace lanes? Something tells me there enough in that idea alone to start a 40k 2.0 electric boogaloo

Great video! I find the expanded galaxy fascinating like how it was in the EU, and the unknown regions are especially interesting. I wonder what is to the west of the galaxy that blocks passage there?