Jay 🆘Are the humans in Star Wars — Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, etc. — biologically related to us?
Yes
No
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Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️@jsit
well the actors are so why not the characters
Philosphene@jsit the humans are a stand-in for a very different alien species that would be unrelatable to us and therefore humans were substituted.
Josh 
@jsit @bitprophet well this resolves nothing (so far).
Jeff Forcier@bitprophet @josh0 I also assume many people “know” the answer based on the mythological canon (I don’t know what that answer might be), but I also hoped to get a sense of what causal viewers of the movies think.
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David 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️NB they/them
Nils Pascal Illenseer@jsit My assumption is “No” and the reasoning is the movies start with “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….”. Practically it is not really possible to be biologically related. 🤷🏻♂️
@illenseer Same here
@jsit @illenseer "we are an offshoot of the Star Wars humans” implies /inter/-galactic travel, which has not been shown to exist in SW canon.
Regardless: distance-wise, on average, if a galaxy takes a couple weeks to cross end-to-end (rough derivation from poorly specified canonical travel times) then intergalactic travel would take a year and a half or more.
On top of that: hyperspace navigation in SW requires “nav data”, which is surely lacking in intergalactic space!
@bitprophet Theirs is not the Milky Way?
@jsit I'm not sure how else we're supposed to interpret “in a galaxy far away” other than "not the milky way" right?
@jsit but also, obviously, if it's /not/ then the actual distances involved could be an order or two of magnitude different. regardless, if they were reliably traveling between galaxies, we woulda seen evidence of this, so they ain’t ;)
@bitprophet Haha oh of course right