Star Wars has been some kind of retro futuristic aesthetic ever since the first movie cemented the look and feel. They go thousands of years without any meaningful technological progress.
Yeah Star Trek does it more similar to OPs post. Orbital SD networks integrated into L2 stations that also act as ready 5 fleetyards and active patrol groups. Not even Core worlds in SW had rudimentary defenses to stop a slow ass artillery strike from a planet sized canon lmao. And that’s decades after the Trade Federation conducted a full invasion of the system where they could’ve thought “hmmm maybe we should put up some defenses around our capital world”.
One of the things i like about Star wars tech is its all like a million years old. They’ve had light speed travel and their galaxy fully charted and explored for many lifetimes
One of my favorite bits of the Star Wars EU was when it established that the Rakatans invented (or stole) repulsor technology and all modern improvements to the designs are literally just miniaturization.
The difference between a Rakatan repulsor vehicle and a “modern” repulsor is that they used large repulsors prone to failure and the modern versions are miniaturized arrays that can keep going if one coil fails, but it’s been that way for so long that the modern users literally forgot that you can just make a repulsor as big as you want, and the bigger it is the more power it can have.
Star Wars has been some kind of retro futuristic aesthetic ever since the first movie cemented the look and feel. They go thousands of years without any meaningful technological progress.
Yeah Star Trek does it more similar to OPs post. Orbital SD networks integrated into L2 stations that also act as ready 5 fleetyards and active patrol groups. Not even Core worlds in SW had rudimentary defenses to stop a slow ass artillery strike from a planet sized canon lmao. And that’s decades after the Trade Federation conducted a full invasion of the system where they could’ve thought “hmmm maybe we should put up some defenses around our capital world”.
I remember appreciating the old school feel of the cockpit screen in the x-wing in rogue one. They did not try to modernize that at all
One of the things i like about Star wars tech is its all like a million years old. They’ve had light speed travel and their galaxy fully charted and explored for many lifetimes
It’s like what happens if technology peaked. Coruscant has been a city sprawling a planet for literally 100,000 years
One of my favorite bits of the Star Wars EU was when it established that the Rakatans invented (or stole) repulsor technology and all modern improvements to the designs are literally just miniaturization.
The difference between a Rakatan repulsor vehicle and a “modern” repulsor is that they used large repulsors prone to failure and the modern versions are miniaturized arrays that can keep going if one coil fails, but it’s been that way for so long that the modern users literally forgot that you can just make a repulsor as big as you want, and the bigger it is the more power it can have.
Good it’s awesome lol