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A short answer: yes. Consider the original Star Wars, but not in edited sequence. Imagine yourself as Luke who looks up with a telescope and sees some of the space battle flashes, but has to go to work before Leia's ship is captured. Interesting, but perhaps space battles occur over that planet quite frequently, who knows? We never know -- and it doesn't matter to the setting, characters, or plot. What matters first is "desert planet".

You've got the setting: Tatooine, for the first maybe third of the movie, above which a space battle took place. Add two Characters... dissatisfied twenty-something and nearby future mentor. Add conflict. Drop droids into dissatisfied twenty-something's problem bucket. Off you go.

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