The whole Korriban/Moraband debacle

[J!!]

probably still wouldn't care. if the new version doesn't appeal to me, i can choose not to engage with it.

[Gridlock1987]

Lucas came up with that name for The Clone Wars tv series, long before Disney buy out. So it is part of Legends canon too. Then, when Disney decided that Clone Wars is still fully canon, they just sticked with it.

If memory serves they responded to fan outcry over this by saying that Moraband and Korriban are the same planet, and it was just renamed Moraband later on.

More or a face-saving measure sure, but at least it's easy to reconcile.

Yes, that's also true.

But yeah, I preffer Korriban. Maybe it's because I just heard it first, but I think it sounds better.

[Riedquat]

Korriban, the Sith homeworld in Legends, was renamed Moraband in Disney canon, and Lucas was the one who wanted it.

oh. in that case, i just don't care, and think it's a silly thing to get upset about.

It sounds like a silly thing to change.

The Star Wars canon was a bit of a mess, particularly with what was the EU so I'm not against changing things in that in principle, just as long as there's a good reason and it's not change for the sake of change (please punch anyone who ever says change is good!) This sounds like it was very much change for the sake of change.

[J!!]

maybe there was a reason, or maybe there wasn't. but either way, if you don't like the new name, you don't have to use it. so why get upset?

[Jonathan101]

Korriban, the Sith homeworld in Legends, was renamed Moraband in Disney canon, and Lucas was the one who wanted it.

oh. in that case, i just don't care, and think it's a silly thing to get upset about.

It sounds like a silly thing to change.

The Star Wars canon was a bit of a mess, particularly with what was the EU so I'm not against changing things in that in principle, just as long as there's a good reason and it's not change for the sake of change (please punch anyone who ever says change is good!) This sounds like it was very much change for the sake of change.

I wouldn't be surprised if Lucas forgot or even never knew what the homeward of the Sith had been called in Legends in the first place.

Or maybe it was a rights thing and they would have had to pay whoever did come up with the name Korriban so they changed it. The only "Legends" name that is in this is Darth Bane, and he was conceived years before his books came out and TCW Bane doesn't really resemble Legends Bane either except that both created the Rule of Two which, again, is something Lucas himself seemed to have come up with.

[Mecha82]

Korriban, the Sith homeworld in Legends, was renamed Moraband in Disney canon, and Lucas was the one who wanted it.

oh. in that case, i just don't care, and think it's a silly thing to get upset about.

To be fair while I am SW fan who is into lore and not just movies I don't really care either. Maybe in eyes of some SW fans that makes me bad SW fan but to be honest SW is only one fiction that I like and besides I am too old to get upset over small changes like this one to fiction. It's fiction, it's not meant to be taken as seriously and to be get angry over.

[Actarus]

If I remember correctly, they said that George Lucas wanted the name changed to Moraband because he feared that Korriban would sound too much like Coruscant and would confuse movie/tv viewers. That is not completely unreasonnable. When you take into account the stresses of spoken English, Korriban would sound like "Cor-(uh)-b(uh)n" or "Cor-[uh]-ban" and Coruscant sounds like "Cor-(uh)-s(uh)nt" or "Cor-(uh)-sant." They are close enough to confuse a viewer that is not well versed in SW lore, like a child, who is afterall the targeted audience of the show... It's the same reason why, in Game of Thrones, they changed Asha Greyjoy into Yara Greyjoy, because Asha sounds too much like Osha the Wildling that was introduced first. They are easily distinguishable when you read them, but much less when you are hearing them.

I really don't understand why some people would make such a fuss about it, especially when it can be easily explained with "the name of the system changed during the last 4,000 years."

Edit: I also think the new name is very clever. It sounds like "moribund." A very fitting name for that cemetary planet.

[Wargriffin]

also you could just argue its just dialect


some places the old Sithari comes out Korriban, others Moraband

like Istanbul/ Constantinople

[Yukaphile]

Complete proof why Lucas needed to go. He had no respect for Legends and that's transferred over to Disney. Moraband is stupid, period. It's coming from a man who is out of touch to the supplementary material. He's not a horrible person, don't get me wrong, but damned if he isn't a horrible writer and guardian of the verse he's created.

And no. Moraband is not nor will EVER be part of Legends canon. IIRC it didn't even appear until a Clone Wars episode long past the Disney buyout. If it never appeared in any Legends material it DID NOT HAPPEN.

[Madner Kami]

(please punch anyone who ever says change is good!)