Tuesday, January 1, 2019

DID THE DOCTOR VISIT A "STAR WARS" PLANET?




From the TARDIS Data Core:
Aridius was a planet originally covered by oceans. Due to a stellar incident, its orbit around its suns turned the planet into a desert over a thousand years. The only remaining species were the amphibious Aridians and the octopus-like Mire Beasts. To control the Mire Beasts the Aridians blew up sections of the city that had been overrun.




From the Doctor Who Chronology:
2900
The planet Aridius begins to get closer to its two suns, which will cause their planet to become desert-like over the next millennium.

(One thousand years before "The Chase" 
[3900].)



From the Wookiepedia Wikia:
Tatoo system was a binary star system located at the crossroads of the Triellus Trade Route and the Old Corellian Run in the Arkanis sector of the Slice's Outer Rim segment. The system formed around the G-type stars Tatoo I and Tatoo II, and contained Tatooine, its moons Ghomrassen, Guermessa and Chenini, the gas giants Ohann and Adriana, and their seven moons.


Ohann had three moons while Adriana had four.  According to the sources I found online, the four Adriana moons were lifeless.  But I couldn't find any information... information... information... on the three moons of Ohann.

As everybody should know by now, most of the 'Star Wars' saga took place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.  The Doctor's visit to Aridius apparently took place in the year 3900, many centuries from now.  And thanks to a couple of Ewoks adventures, if not the dreaded Holiday Special, that universe is absorbed into the greater TV Universe.

So it's pozz'ble, just pozz'ble, that Aridius might be one of those moons in the twin sun system of Tatoo.  And that includes those four supposedly lifeless moons.  In the days of the Rebellion vs. the Empire, one of Adriana's moons could have been a water planet which no one bothered to explore.  Had they done so, perhaps they would have found that the moon wasn't so lifeless after all; that it sustained the Aridians and the Mire Creatures.

But by the time of the Doctor's sojourn on that now-desert planet, the twin suns of Tatoo and Tatoo II had been drawing their orbiting satellites in to be eventually destroyed.   So Tattooine was long gone by Earth Time 3900 AD, and Aridius was now... well, arid.


I think a story could be done someday, perhaps even fanfic, where the Doctor goes back to Aridius, to a point not long after his First Incarnation left, and she could rescue the surviving Aridians......

And - based on this meme - the Doctor might have met up with some established characters from 'Star Wars' in the past....


BCnU!

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