How SWTOR should have been

[taiwwa]

Instead of Empire vs Alliance, SWTOR should have been Alderaan vs Coreillia vs Tatooine (which is heavily forested, how does it become desert by the films?). This would be like France vs Germany through much of the 19th century. The Empire is Coreillia finally winning completely against Alderaan.

[TalonVII]

What?

[RodneyMcNeely]

What?

[Darth_Krushya]

Corellia and Alderaan would never fight each other. They are founding members of the Republic.

 

As for Tatooine. Yes. Tatooine use to be green and lush with large oceans. In ancient times, before SWTOR, long before KOTOR I & II there was a galaxy conquering Force-sensitive species called the Rakatta. They enslaved thousands of worlds and billions of lives, including Tatooine.

 

Then a plague ravaged the Rakatta killing many and robbed the rest of their ability to use the Force. There were four dominant species on Tatooine (the Ghorfa, the Jawas, and two others).

 

They saw their chance to strike back at their oppressors and war started. The Rakatta lost. They were evicted from Tatooine. But before they left, the Rakatta activated a super weapon that devastated the surface of Tatooine forever and changing the orbit of the planet closer to its twin suns. What the weapon did not destroy, the heat from Tatooine's suns finished off. The forests and lush greenery died and burned up, and the oceans evaporated.

 

Only a handful of Tatooine's life forms still live. The Ghorfa became Sand People and the Jawas retreated to caves deep under ground. The other 2 remaining species either died off or were killed off in wars with the Sans People fighting for vanishing resources.

 

To this day, the Sand People hate visitors, settlers, conquerors, and miners from other worlds. The Sand People try to preserve any remaining resources, considering their damaged planet as sacred, and outsiders as being uncaring and ignorant. In SWTOR you can visit "The Wound" on Tatooine. It is the scar left by the Rakatta super weapon.

 

The remaining info was extrapolated form KOTOR I from conversations between Revan and the Sand People Chieftain (translated by HK-47) in exchange for water vaporators. The lore was given to Revan after you complete the mission to acquire the water vaporators.