miilousuede posted:I'm rather new to the earlier parts of the canon (the 4,000ish BBY Old Republic era) so please forgive me if I make short-sighted assumptions. I'm trying to read the current comic series and play the first KotOR game and I feel like they are just simply too modern. I watch the films and see a series of sprawling space faring metropolises. And Taris looks and feels very much like the film era Coruscant level of technology. I know Bacta hasn't been harnessed yet in this time period but it seems like (purely from a layman's perspective) that there is no real sense of scientific development over a period of four thousand years! Modern Civilization today is radically different from earlier communities in 2000 BC on Earth, why can't we have the same sort of realistic progression in the Star Wars universe?
Jedimarine posted:If you are looking for one of those characteristics that distinguishes "scifi" from "space opera"...here it is. science fiction is constantly on the lookout to "improve" the science, better the technology, and by that, the story can present more difficult problems to be solved and on and on. Space Opera is not that way...Space opera presents us with the essential world, and from that the story progresses...sometimes history repeats itself...but it's not about finding that better technology to solve the problems...it's about the people...the technology is a given. And as was said...when hyperdrives are about as common place as internal combustion engines in our universe, we'll see how quick our "technology" advances after that achievement.
Excellence posted: sw tech is not "stagnant." People simply don't bother writing new tech.
Excellence posted: But if we get anything too "weird" or "non-sw" you'll attack the writer, so don't complain.
DarthMRN posted:Excellence posted: But if we get anything too "weird" or "non-sw" you'll attack the writer, so don't complain. Hah. I would not. I accept the space operatic parts of SW enough to accept that gadgets are brought into the story for narrative purposes only, to the point where if a character had access to all that has been created, he would be able to counter any dramatic challenge, thus becoming boring to read about.
DarthMRN posted:The original TotJ comics were admirable in their lack of development on one hand, and clearly technological advancedness on the other. That this era no longer is, can be blamed on the redacted at Bioware, who in making KotOR 1 seems to have gone out of their way to cater to the movie audience by ripping mercilessly from PT era stuff rather than TotJ in this and several other respects.
posted:The retcon, as I've understood it, consists of the galaxy rebuilding and restructuring after the Sith War. Which of course just makes the whole thing even sillier, with a technological boom in just 40 years, followed by 4000 years of stagnance.
_Catherine_ posted:You don't think it's kind of silly for a 20,000-year-old civilization to dress like they're from ancient Egypt and have ships that look like they're made out of sticks? I mean, I never did, but I didn't really think about it that much. The TOTJ aesthetics never bothered me, but then neither did the KOTOR aesthetics. Except for that damn Basilisk.
_Catherine_ posted:You don't think it's kind of silly for a 20,000-year-old civilization to dress like they're from ancient Egypt and have ships that look like they're made out of sticks?
_Catherine posted:I think you're thinking of the wrong Sith war. As I understand it, there was a retro-fashion fad going on in the Republic during TOTJ.