Korriban/Moraband

[Brandon Rhea]

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS

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Moraband as it appeared in Star Wars: The Clone Wars - "Sacrifice"​

If you're a fan of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, then by now you've probably seen the sixth and final season, which was released on Netflix on March 7th. In the series finale, titled "Sacrifice," Yoda continues a quest he was sent on by the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn to face a series of trials. These trials are designed to prepare Yoda for learning the secret to eternal life, which is why Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi appeared as ghosts in the original trilogy. As part of these trials, Yoda travels to the Sith homeworld... of Moraband.

The reason I'm posting this is because there was a question about how the name Moraband affects The Star Wars RP. The Expanded Universe has always shown the Sith homeworld as being called Korriban, whereas in The Clone Wars it's called Moraband. When the episodes were released, Lucasfilm clarified the naming discrepancy. When "Sacrifice" was being written, the planet was originally referred to as Korriban. George Lucas, however, preferred the name Moraband for the Sith homeworld, so that was the name they went with. Nevertheless, Lucasfilm has said that the planet had many names in different eras of galactic history. Therefore, unless a film or TV series somehow says that the name Korriban isn't real, we can assume that the planet has had both names over its history.

On SWRP, we will officially continue referring to it as Korriban, as that is the name people are most familiar with, and because this site is based heavily on the Expanded Universe. However, you can refer to the planet however you'd like. If you want to call it Moraband, you may do so. That will only affect you, rather than how the site as a whole refers to the planet. We're fine with the multiple names too - in fact, we've also done that with Korriban. In the fourth timeline, the Bogan Empire was headquartered on a world called Conscio. After the timeline was over, we retconned that planet to be an earlier, less-arid version of Korriban.

Hopefully this clarifies things if you had a question about Moraband. Thanks for reading!

 

[Attom]

My question is what was he smoking when he decided Morraband was better. -__-

 

[Zay]

My question is what was he smoking when he decided Morraband was better. -__-

Cocaine's a hell of a drug....

 

[Galavant]

Ehh from an In-Universe perspective it makes sense that Korriban wouldn't have the same name over the years, it seems like since the end of the Great Hyperspace War it was never continuously inhabited for any length of time over a few hundred years, or by more than few thousand individuals. Different species, differing translations, etc... It's kind of cool.

But Korriban's the better name in my opinion, it just sounds stronger. I do like that they didn't just say "Nope, MASSIVE RETCON" and of course this is hardly the first time the name of the Sith homeworld has been changed.

 

[Marf]

I got really worried when I saw the announcement title, but THANK GOD we're still referring to it as Korriban.

 

[Pureblood-Sin]

I got really worried when I saw the announcement title, but THANK GOD we're still referring to it as Korriban.

I'm inclined to agree, I don't think many of us would've been happy bunnies.

 

[Dmitri]

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Niklas]

Cool, dude. Moraband sounds pretty cool though, I'm not going to lie.

 

[Cainhurst Crow]

Makes sense to me. A lot of our modern countries had different names before the 19th century.

 

[Gaja]

Ehh from an In-Universe perspective it makes sense that Korriban wouldn't have the same name over the years, it seems like since the end of the Great Hyperspace War it was never continuously inhabited for any length of time over a few hundred years, or by more than few thousand individuals. Different species, differing translations, etc... It's kind of cool.

But Korriban's the better name in my opinion, it just sounds stronger. I do like that they didn't just say "Nope, MASSIVE RETCON" and of course this is hardly the first time the name of the Sith homeworld has been changed.

This^

 

[Liam]

Cocaine's a hell of a drug....

You can smoke cocaine?

 

[Brandon Rhea]

What's really cool is that the design in the show is almost exactly the same as the Old Republic era. That pyramid is straight out of Star Wars: The Old Republic.

 

[Attom]

you can smoke cocaine?

Don't bring logic into this!!!!!

 

[Cortan]

What's really cool is that the design in the show is almost exactly the same as the Old Republic era. That pyramid is straight out of Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Aye - instantly recognised it along with the positions of the statues. Then again, they did previously have the throne room of Onderon from Kotor 2, so its clear that they were aware of the games and the designs utilised within them. Still, also glad that they had the 'multiple names' handwave ready.

 

[Zay]

You can smoke cocaine?

If you can't I feel bad for you son I got 99 problems and...logic is one... *cries in the corner*

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Let's cut the drug use talk, please.

 

[Skyway]

What's really cool is that the design in the show is almost exactly the same as the Old Republic era. That pyramid is straight out of Star Wars: The Old Republic.

I saw that and I flip my table "not really" though I wish they gave more of pan view as yoda was landing.

 

[Green Ranger]

I still say when Lucas dies, there's gonna be an autopsy and we're all gonna be 'ohhhhhh' when they disover a giant brain tumor.

 

[JSC]

From this day forth I shall call the Sith Homeworld: Tacos

 

[Hannah]

I just looked up Moraband on Google images out of pure curiosity and Bac's avatar was one of the pictures shown...