Tatooine has appeared in many recent Star Wars projects. After perhaps surprisingly not a place visited by the characters of The Force Awakens, Rogue One, or The Last Jedi, the planet was seen briefly in The Rise of Skywalker. On the television side, the planet has been the setting of several episodes across two live-action shows, The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
Tatooine has an incredibly important place in the Star Wars galaxy, as it’s the home of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, so it makes sense that fans have seen so much of the desert world in recent years. However, there are other worlds that are also deserving of this treatment. Here are some of the Star Wars planets that deserve to be explored more.
Exegol was first introduced in the conclusion of the Skywalker Saga, The Rise of Skywalker. It serves as a Sith home-world, similar to Morraband or Korriban. Bathed in blue light and seemingly dead ground, Exegol is a fitting home for Emperor Palpatine. Just as Palpatine’s primary weapon of attack is force lightning, there’s plenty of lightning on Exegol, except with no rain or thunder to go with it. This unique trait adds to the great atmosphere of this Star Wars world.
Exegol was the planet that Palpatine hid in after he was killed, and his Empire was destroyed in Return of the Jedi. It’s the hiding ground for the Sith Fleet, or the Final Order, his contingency plan that had enough power to wipe out much of the Resistance and even the First Order. It’s also where Palpatine went through many transformations and cloning to spare himself from death, and the place where many versions of Supreme Leader Snoke were created. Darth Vader also visited Exegol in the Star Wars comics, showing that he also knew about the hidden world. More broadly, this storyline in the comics solidifies Exegol as the planet where Palpatine was based on after the prequels, not just when he was cloning himself. Overall, Exegol has a rich history in the franchise, despite only appearing for the first time a few years ago.
Despite this, there’s still so much unknown about Exegol. Did it always look the way it does? Given that the planet immediately lit up after Palpatine was destroyed by Rey, it seems as if Exegol was not always doomed with lightening and inhabited exclusively with Sith cultists. There’s also the many statues of ancient Sith Lords that Kylo Ren passes as he makes his way down to Palpatine’s lab at the beginning of The Rise of Skywalker, meaning there are potentially more dark-side Force users to explore.
Kamino has made a comeback of sorts in recent years, with The Bad Batch and The Book of Boba Fett both showing the rainy planet, although it only appeared in the latter very briefly via flashbacks and dreams of the title character. Still, it’s been a fan favorite planet ever since it was first introduced in Attack of the Clones. It has such a mysterious, film noir atmosphere, and one that fans have loved for years.
In The Bad Batch, the Kamino buildings were destroyed, where all the clones and Kaminoans resided. The rest of the planet is seemingly filled with oceans, and it’s unclear if there were more above water facilities for people to live in. However, even if there weren’t any more buildings, these easily could have been rebuilt after The Bad Batch.
It’s possible that Kamino could be explored much further in the timeline for audiences to see what’s been happening on the planet since the destruction that occurred not long after the rise of the Empire. With Dave Filoni a key creative voice of the live action shows on Disney+, it would be incredibly interesting to see Kamino at the time of The Mandalorian and its related shows.
Coruscant is the planet with the most screen time in the prequels, as it’s the base of the Republic and where the Senate resides. It’s also the home of the Jedi Temple, where Yoda, Obi-Wan, Mace Windu, and the rest of the Jedi Council come together.
So much happened on the city-planet over the course of three films, such as Anakin and Obi-Wan’s chase sequence at the beginning of Attack of the Clones. The most important event on Coruscant was arguably Order 66, which was started by Palpatine from his Senate office and led to Clone troopers destroying the Jedi Temple. It’s an event so monumental that it has continually been shown ever since, the most recent of which being in The Book of Boba Fett, where Grogu had a flashback to surviving the purge.
Despite being so prevalent in the prequels, Coruscant hasn’t appeared nearly as much in the timeline afterwards, particularly in live action. Recently, it was revealed that JJ Abrams wanted to destroy Coruscant with the Starkiller Base in The Force Awakens, an idea which eventually became Hosnian Prime in the final cut of the film. Abrams revisited Coruscant when developing The Rise of Skywalker, where he originally planned to base Palpatine there before deciding to make a new planet in Exegol. In fact, The Book of Boba Fett’s Order 66 flashback was only the second time that Coruscant was shown in live action in the Disney era, the other instance being a brief look in 2016’s Rogue One.
Coruscant hasn’t been explored in-depth for a long time now, and much like Kamino, it’s bound to have changed substantially since the fall of the Republic. Seeing the planet again in the Mandalorian-era shows, or even further down the timeline in any potential project set after The Rise of Skywalker, would be captivating.
Mandalore is a planet that appeared on several occasions in the animated series The Clone Wars. Obi-Wan and Satine’s romance, the battle between Maul and Ahsoka, and more all occurred on the planet. Despite featuring relatively consistently in animation since its first appearance, fans have only gotten one brief look at Mandalore in live-action, which was in Chapter 5 of The Book of Boba Fett.
With the world of The Mandalorian growing so much, and Din Djarin himself now wielding the infamous Darksaber, the weapon that grants him the right to rule all of Mandalore, it seems just a matter of time before the planet is explored in live-action. There’s certainly much to be shown.
Mon Calamari is the home of creatures such as Admiral Ackbar, whose line “It’s a trap!” in Return of the Jedi went down as one of the most famous in all of Star Wars. Mon Calamari featured in animation in The Clone Wars, and it looked stunning across several episodes. One arc in particular showed a great battle on the planet, which is entirely underwater.
The underwater aspect might make it hard to bring over into live-action, but even if it remained in animation, seeing Mon Calamari again would be a treat. However, the presence of Dave Filoni again makes it a possibility that almost anything or anyone could appear in live action Star Wars shows right now, especially if it was in The Clone Wars, a series that he was heavily involved in. Given that, Mon Calamari might be a planet to keep an eye on in the future.
