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Rhen Var was once a fertile paradise filled with vegetation and wild life. Thousands of years before the Clone Wars, an atmospheric cataclysm turned it into an icy hibernal surface. Since then, it had been a frigid world of frozen tundra and snowswept mountains.
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Hmm... interesting. I never knew that. I always thought Rhen Var was just another ice planet like Hoth
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Nova Hawk wrote:Hmm... interesting. I never knew that. I always thought Rhen Var was just another ice planet like Hoth
You can infer that it was once habitable by the structures and the ruins, but beyond that, I don't think anyone would have guessed it had vegetation or was a paradise.

Don't know how "unknown" this is, but as I never see many people bring it up...Dark Forces (or the events leading up to the first level at least) and Jedi Knight have been adapted into short novels.

And, related to the Rhen Var comment above, Mustafar was actually a pleasant place to live before; apparently, it was ripped from its original orbit somehow.
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Why is it so volcanic, though? It's nothing like any planet or moon we know of.

(Then again, why is Earth volcanic? We've never seen a volcano anywhere else, to my knowledge.)
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Eaol wrote: (Then again, why is Earth volcanic? We've never seen a volcano anywhere else, to my knowledge.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_on_Io
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_on_Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_on_Venus
The surface of Venus is dominated by volcanism and has produced more volcanoes than any other planet in the solar system.
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Twilight_Warrior wrote:
Eaol wrote: (Then again, why is Earth volcanic? We've never seen a volcano anywhere else, to my knowledge.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_on_Io
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_on_Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_on_Venus
The surface of Venus is dominated by volcanism and has produced more volcanoes than any other planet in the solar system.
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I concur :plokoon: , TW just beat me to it.
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Not really a fail. I'm certain none of those are volcanoes. I was expecting someone to provide me with a planet or moon other than those.

The alleged 'volcanoes' on Io are electrical jets. That's why they move, and that's what arc machining is.
Electric Io Revisited
Electric Jets on Io
Jupiter's Consort
Io and the "Greatest Surprise"
The Mountains of Io
Io's "Volcanoes" Blur Scientific Vision
Io's "Volcano" Promethus
Io's Plumes
Predicting the Electrical Etching of Io
Retrospective on Io

The alleged 'volcanoes' on Mars are fulgarites. We can reproduce these in the laboratory, and we have reproduced these in the laboratory. They are the result of a plasma discharge to a surface.
Olympus Mons

The alleged 'volcanoes' on Venus are a whole series of rock formations having nothing at all to do with volcanism.
Electrical Scars of Venus
Venus and the River Styx
Venus the Bright Planet
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Off-topic:
Eaol wrote:I'm certain none of those are volcanoes.
What's your definition of a volcano based on your own personal observations?

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Off-topic:
AQT wrote:What's your definition of a volcano based on your own personal observations?
Well, when I think of a volcano, I think of a caldera, magma at least partially being involved, etcetera. I don't see the results of lightning strikes and plasma discharges as volcanoes, though. My definition is the same as the Wikipedia one, "an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot magma, volcanic ash and gases to escape from below the surface."

None of the misidentified phenomena have any real similarities to Earth's volcanoes. The similarity is only perceived because the real explanation is too uncomfortable to the current paradigm.
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Tatooine used to be a lush fields-type planet until the Rakatta terraformed it.
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Well...I thought terraforming was referring to making a world more hospitable. Haha.

In at least one dubiously canon source, Darth Maul survives and is given artificial legs, only to be killed again by Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Eaol wrote:In at least one dubiously canon source, Darth Maul survives and is given artificial legs, only to be killed again by Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Oh the irony! :P
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Your alleged 'facts' are all dated 2004-2005. And are all from the same source. One 6-7 year old website is not helping your case when you can search for "Volcanism on Venus/Mars/Io/Enceladus/Triton/Europa" and get tons of legitimate, updated sources and websites about volcanic activity (even if some of them are cryovolcanoes) on those different celestial bodies.
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@Twilight_Warrior:

It's an old website, yes, but it's updated daily and is still used by many independent scientists, specifically for astrophysics.

I am too scientific to go around listening to flat-earth (or should I say "oil-lamp") theorists, though. Just because something is "legitimate" in your view does not make it correct. The reason these things are seen as volcanoes is because mainstream astrophysicists and geologists have no idea what else could have created them, much like the discredited idea of impact craters. They basically come up with an idea based on a flawed model, and within days it's already considered 'fact' by the mainstream without ever having one bit of observational or experimental evidence to support it.
You are welcome, Twilight_Warrior, to go and discuss this on my Electric Universe thread (we're getting fairly off-topic here). I did expect someone to call me out on quoting a single source there, but it was the only reliable scientific source that I could find on the particular matter that actually relied on the scientific method and hard evidence. There are more sites that go into a small amount of detail on the subject, but they are too technical and/or do not have it as their main subject.
Overall, at least I have experimental evidence backing up my view. The mainstream one is supported by deductive and not empirical reasoning and assumptions of the electrical neutrality of space (despite the fact that it is almost wholly filled with charged particles - plasma, in which the force of gravity is negligible), and exists because of the compartmentalization of modern 'science'.
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Eaol wrote:I am too scientific to go around listening to flat-earth (or should I say "oil-lamp") theorists, though.
I don't know what exactly your problem or agenda is, but if you are too scientific, why are you wasting your time on the internet trying convince a handful of ordinary people about how wrong mainstream science is? You seem to have very a good understanding of the widely available scientific information on either side of the "conflict." If you are too scientific, why not use your time, effort, and knowledge to conduct your own research and reach your own conclusions? You are not doing any better than those you claim who use mainstream science to back up their views. If you are too scientific, why not go out there in the world and talk to actual scientists? Go to your local research colleges and universities and present "your" case to the mainstream scientists there. If you want to see radical changes made to the scientific community, then it would help if you take a larger role in making it happen. You are hardly making a dent here on the internet considering there are oppositions to science as a whole. Until then, please don't go around presenting yourself as some kind of authoritative figure when you are merely spouting out findings by other scientists.

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The Star Wars Holiday Special is considered to be cannon, but the 2008 Star Wars The Clone Wars series is argued to be un-cannon.

Interesting, to me at least.

If you want to know more about The Star Wars Holiday Special, you should look up the Nostalgia Critic's review of it, very funny and you will get a good idea exactly what is The Star Wars Holiday Special. Prepare to never look at star wars the same way again.-Warning, adult language is present in the video-
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THEWULFMAN wrote:the 2008 Star Wars The Clone Wars series
Are you talking about the 5 minute minisodes on Cartoon Network? Because that was right before Episode III came out in 2005. So itd be 04-05, not 08.
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Twilight_Warrior wrote:
THEWULFMAN wrote:the 2008 Star Wars The Clone Wars series
Are you talking about the 5 minute minisodes on Cartoon Network? Because that was right before Episode III came out in 2005. So itd be 04-05, not 08.


No, I am talking about the 2008 CGI Star Wars The Clone Wars series, if I was talking about the minisodes I would have said The Tartakovsky Clone Wars series. A lot of people refer to the new CGI series as the 2008 ST:TCW series, or TCW for short.
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@THEWULFMAN:

I did not know that.

Did you know that Naboo's core is made of plasma?
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Eaol wrote:Did you know that Naboo's core is made of plasma?
I thought it consists of water and rocks. :o
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