As always, apologies for the recent delay in posting…real life takes priority from time to time. I try to post a decent variety of content—see the CATEGORIES menu over there >>>>> —and when it comes to ‘Artifact ID’ series, I’m afraid I’ve hit a bit of a bottleneck. You see, I have several identified artifacts queued up and ready to share, but there’s a problem – they’re all from Rogue One Colon A Star Wars Story…and as you may have noticed if you’ve been following along, I’m not really a consumer of post-Disney Star Wars content.
With that in mind, I’d like to take a break from our regularly scheduled content to share my thought process and try and get to the bottom of this recent quandary.
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Tag: rebranding
Hindsight strikes again!
While I’m settling into my choice to refocus my Rebel ‘partisan’ persona on Naboo, this really just means a change of backstory and some items of clothing. I figure I can still use the Sulon-based impression for more in-depth opportunities, such as events with more adults (haven’t seen a lot of those yet, but ‘if you build it they will come’), who can grasp the concept that there are more planets out there than just what’s been seen onscreen.
Looking back in my notes, I was tickled to see that just like I did in deciding on my first Middle-earth persona, I actually briefly considered—and then talked myself out of—basing this persona on Naboo!:
“I’m from (and most likely to operate in) a temperate, deciduous biome, so I knew I wouldn’t be picking a desert or ice planet, but unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of planets in the GFFA that resemble eastern North America! The only deciduous-biome planet from the six films is Naboo, and we just don’t have enough details on it after about 19BBY for my confidence.”
For future reference: any time you think there are not enough details about a subject, this is just an opportunity to do some research! And boy, have I found some interesting tidbits since I started digging!
Location, location, location!
I was re-watching Episode I on its 19th anniversary the other day, and I happened to notice something. Do you see it?
That’s right, Naboo has Beech trees! I did some digging, and as it turns out a lot of the outdoor Naboo scenes were filmed in England right outside of Leavesden Studios. And it got me to thinking…
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