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Nebulae are the birthplace of stars, so, i think 2 nebula has to fall in love, so they give birth

Tatooine has suns... I think. Well... atleast it has three planets floating around it, maybe they're moons. Anyhow... you're right, though. None of the planets have suns. Especially for Tatooine, we need suns. Even if they're just peeking out from behind a planet.

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When flying around in space I have seen things that may be suns, because they look slightly larger than the other stars. However they don't produce any sun glare or anything when you look at them.

In regards to the nebulae, I know why they bother people because they certainly don't appear in the movies. But ironically, seeing how we are complaining about the lack of suns, can you recall ever seeing those in the movies (in space that is)? I sure can't.

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First of all, if you want realism... everytime you go into space, turn off your sound. There's no noise in a vacuum

Ok, I hate to get into this. I really do. Because I know flames are gonna fly. But, Star Wars was never trying to be about what's realistic. Real space ships couldn't fly like that. Laser beams can't bounce off one another like how the Death Star focuses it's primary cannon. Real asteroid fields are scarcely hard to navigate because the distance between rocks is HUGE. Our space probes travel through the asteroid belt all the time without hitting anything and they don't need any mad flying skills in order to accomplish it. A giant space worm living in an asteroid? No air, no food, -300 degrees F temperature... what's it do sit around for a thousand years to once in a while catch a tiny ship for dinner to sustain it for the next thousand? Traveling underwater through the core of a planet without getting crushed by the pressure (even with super-advanced technology, getting around this would be practically impossible)? If it was only protecting the Death Star II, why did the shield generator have to come offline in order for Tyderium to land? Comeon... people. It's not meant to be ultra-realistic. A realistic space fight would be VERY boring and has never been done in a sci-fi movie... EVER.It's meant to be cool and look cool, not to have every nuance that defies the laws of physics be ripped apart. And the reason there's so much 'terrain' in space games is to give you something to "fly around". There has never been abattle of in Star Wars that didn't have terrain of some sort, whether it be the Death Star, a bunch of capital ships, or asteroids. It adds spice to what's going on. Imagine the battle overEndor without a bunch of Star Destroyers and Corvettes to see the pilots manuvering around. How less exciting that would be.

As for the Star Destroyers.. they're on the opposite side of the planet. Duh

Oh yeah... back on the topic of the original poster. I agree there should be suns. I'm thinking perhaps the only reason they didn't include them was maybe they thought the blindness caused by it was too annoying. Nebula hurt your eyes? You think staring into the sun would be less trouble?

Yeah. You know the "Fi" in Sci-Fi means? Science Fiction. It ain't real. And guess what? It doesn't have to be!!!

Physically speaking, can you imagine the havoc two stars as close to each other as they are in Tatoo would do to anything within a light year?? What they would do to each other? The astronomical anomolies in Kessel come to mind...

Oh, and Kessel.....don't even get me started there....

Fiction. All pure fiction.

Just thinking about it and I don't recall seeing any suns while in space in any of the Star Wars Movies.

Only for very brief moments. Episode I when Amidala's ship first approaches Tatooine, and asthe Milennium Falcon is leaving Bespin, the sun peeks out from behind the planet. I think those are the only two occurrences.

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