Luke et al. are not human, but George Lucas had to settle forusing humans to portray them.
The $7B for which he sold the franchise is to fulfill a secret clause in the sale agreement allowing Lucas to reshoot the film with actors to whom the original characters are distant ancestors.
The first movie will be titled Disney’s Descendants IV: A New Re-release.
Han’s ship is named after a well-known small, fast-flying predator: That’s what matters. The creature it was named after wasn’t a Falco perigrinus, but that’s irrelevant.
Starseeding is still a viable option here, perhaps using native genetic material to make a human in the new world, It would change what it is to be ‘human’, or perhaps even guiding evolution towards it though all those animals. Or we could just have a God who likes to make humans everywhere.
And before the race, doesn’t Anakin say “I’m the only human who can do it”?
I’m mildly surprised that nobody has mentioned the pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey in Watto’s junkyard. That could be taken as an indication that the series is not only in our universe, it’s post-2001.
Of course, other explanations are possible, such as “it fell into a wormhole and ended up in another galaxy in the distant past,” or “it’s a visual Easter egg and doesn’t mean anything.” 
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I am confident that nowhere in our universe can mortals travel at the speed of light. And ‘light speed’ is even faster than just c, otherwise they’d need cryogenic chambers to even get to one other planet in another solar system nevermind an inhabitable world.
I can’t believe nobody, including me, has remembered or mentioned Speilberg’s E.T.s having a delegation of representatives in the Galactic Senate as shown in The Phantom Menace, so yep, it is canonically true that Star Wars is in our universe and Speilberg’s universe is the same as Lucas’ universe.
As for the pod in watto’s junkyard, I recall seeing something…will report back when or if I can find the explanation again
That’s because I have carefully-constructed mental blocks regarding the existence of Episodes 1-3. 
Oh, I definitely remember the E.T. delegation frantically waving their arms in their levitating Galactic Senate whatchamacallit. I just don’t like thinking about them. To me, their presence feels like an in-joke between Lucas and Spielberg.
However, I understand they’re mentioned (and named) in some of the Star Wars books, so you have a good point here.
So perhaps the galaxy is not that far away and it wasn’t that long ago.
Any Kingdom of the Crystal Skull references in SW canon to really kill my childhood off?
It was the originalPod Racer.
My god, it’s full of sequels
And yet, in E. T.'s universe, Star Wars is a fictional story: There’s a trick-or-treating scene in E. T., where we see a little kid dressed up as Yoda.
I remember the year 2001, and there wasn’t any Mission to Jupiter; so the Discovery Pod exists in a different universe to this one.
Well, there’s this, which seems to be a blog page that appears to pretty comprehensively list all the star wars easter eggs linking the two in the Indiana Jones movies, plus one Easter Egg from Star Wars the Clone Wars animated series featuring the Ark of the Covenant, soooo, yeah, sssssoooorrrryyyyy.
I’d forgotten that C-3P0 and R2-D2 appeared in the Egyptian hieroglyphs in Raiders of the Lost Ark!
It would be great if, in the next Alien vs Predator movie, on the Predator’s trophy wall there was a fedora and a whip, along with Boba Fett’s helmet, to tie it all together.
Actually, the in-joke between Lucas and Speilberg is pretty spot on. Very roughly, my understanding is that Speilberg said something to Lucas about it, and boom there they were. I’ll have to see if I can dig up the article where I saw that again.
Joke or not, the “home home” line from E.T. and the shot of them in the Galactic Senate pretty much canonicly ties them into one world from both directions.
Walken, that would be awesome, and funny. It could also give origin to the xenomorphs as a weapon of some sort from the Youghzong Vong war (did I spell that right?) and explain why there are humans in a galaxy long ago and far far away
Eta, all we would need then is a snowglobe and an autistic kid.
