[He nods as they talk, reaching out to rest a hand lightly, briefly, against one of Julian's shoulderblades in companionable guidance when Jyn and Cassian start to head in a direction for something. Perhaps the cookie search has begun.]

Many of our worlds are a little more homogeneous. There are, of course, exceptions - settled colonies, vacation worlds, and also various space stations - but there's always a great deal to say for one's homeworld.

[Which he misses sorely, but that's not relevant to here.]

Transporter beam hubs are common on a vast majority of civilized worlds, step into one and rematerialize somewhere else nearly anywhere on the planet. It's quite efficient.

[In many ways, because it makes it easy to track people too.]

The gates are a start, here, though with their lack of resources in general I can't see this planet making it without extensive external help.