User:Nick2253/Treatise on Ryloth

This Treatise on Ryloth serves as a way to philosophically and mathematically reconcile a tide-locked Ryloth and a day-night cycle Ryloth.

Background
Since its earliest mentions in the Expanded Universe, Ryloth has been a tide-locked planet. This condition made life on Ryloth hard, and has inherently defined the life and culture of the resident Twi'leks. For most of their existence, the Twi'leks were restricted to the narrow temperate band between the scorching Bright Lands on the sun-ward side and the frozen Nightlands on the dark side. However, because of the extreme differences between the two sides of the planet, the temperate band was frequently beset with massive heat storms carried on ferocious winds. The heat storms made the surface unbearable, driving the Twi'leks into their subterranean cities.

For more than a decade, fans of Star Wars have been using said tide-locked Ryloth in RPGs, video games, and fannon. However, in 2009, the Clone Wars four-part episode arc concerning the Battle of Ryloth completely changed the continuity of that planet. Ryloth was shown with a day-night cycle, above ground cities, and vegetation clearly visible across the surface (albeit in small pockets). Initially, fans (and even the Keeper of the Holocron himself) called out LucasFilm on the continuity errors shown in the TV show, and implored the company to correct it for DVD/Blu-RAY release. Only a few months later, however, the Essential Atlas canonized the non-tide-locked Ryloth, giving it a 30-standard-hour day and a 305-standard-day year.