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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 9526192" data-attributes="member: 40176">If the place is remote, I could see Palpatine having chosen to centralise currency production under his rule. It might even have been in or beyond territory claimed by the Separatists. But it feels like they've been isolated longer than that, somehow.And what even is the barrier, anyway? Clearly it didn't stop the ancient ship from leaving, though it might have been responsible for it crashing in the first place. Did it used to be more functional than it currently is? We know that planetary shields are a thing, but they're usually invisible (as on Hoth) or a clear bubble (as on Scarif). Perhaps it functions more as a cloaking device than a shield if viewed from outside.And Wim knows some deeper lore, talking about Jedi temples that could bury themselves to escape detection, like the one on Lothal.In the wider galaxy, the kids thinking the Jedi were semi-mythical wouldn't be unusual, but that's due to Empire propaganda, which they clearly haven't been exposed to, so it seems more likely that they've simply gone a long time without seeing any Jedi.Clearly not much idea of galactic geography, though - they didn't seem to even know what region of the galaxy they were in, before or after jumping through hyperspace (I do love the detail that the ship leaves a cloud of dust whenever it enters hyperspace, because it's still caked in soil).It's certainly no accident that the planet is lost and has a barrier around it. It feels like it was deliberately hidden away, intended to go on working upon something in secret. Whether it was intended to remain so for this long, or if it was somehow forgotten about in the shift of galactic politics, is another question.And it's going to be interesting finding out.</blockquote>

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