Otoh Gunga was a magical and beautiful place that had originally belonged only to the Gungans...
The city lay in the vast, expansive oceans inside the planet Naboo, somewhere land-dwelling creatures could not easily reach!
In fact, it was a fantastical city built—or, more accurately, grown—on the enormous Lokap plants. At first glance, it looked like clusters of tightly connected bubbles, glowing with a faint orange or amber light.
Thus, in the pitch-black depths, where there was hardly any light at all, the Gungan city looked like something out of a dream from far away. Its light refracted in dazzling, diamond-like colors, making it seem like a shining pearl in the depths of Naboo's dark ocean. It represented the pinnacle of the Gungans' unique cultivation technology!
That's right—cultivation!!
Unlike the other nations of the Galactic Republic, the Gungans didn't rely on research and manufacturing to create technological devices. Instead, they grew them, alive and well, much like crops.
Their spherical or oval buildings, large and small, were decorated with smooth, gleaming ornaments and support frames full of graceful curves and distinctive beauty. The bubbles, the hydrostatic force fields that kept out the water and held in breathable air, and the spaces where the Gungans of Naboo lived and worked—in short, all the buildings were grown!
And that was the real reason Otoh Gunga had such an unusual and distinctive beauty!
Between the countless bubble-shaped buildings, schools of harmless fish and small shelled sea creatures swam leisurely through the glowing waters of the city. They had clearly grown accustomed to the bubbles and the light...
Inside the bubbles, countless Gungans lived and worked in their homes and "high-rises." In places where privacy was lacking, anyone could see at a glance what the Gungans inside were doing, but they didn't seem to