Lit In Universe-Sci Fi/Fantasy

Hey this has been a question that has vexed me for quite a while-in the Star Wars universe what are their equivalents of Sci fi/fantasy. To give one obscure reference in a cut section of TEGW Admiral Motti degradingly dismisses the celestials as a bad sci fi plot.

What would science fiction in the GFFA look like? Intergalactic travel, alternate means of FTL, social critiques of giant corporations. Fantasy? Worlds with force like energy? Gods and what not real?

What do the inhabitants of the GFFA imagine?

 

I guess it would include time travel, for example. In canon, time travel is regarded as an impossible thing, and in Legends, well, there were only a few freak incidents involving it.

 

Is there anything else you can imagine?

 

In the Medstar books, "instantly assembling a meal from base ingredients" is something in the sci-fi that reporter Den Dhur watches.

 

Quest for Quasar

Next Celebration I'm gonna bring a petition against Ottekvar. Y'all gotta sign.

 

I assume some fantasy might involve inter-galactic travel (beyond the satellite galaxies). It seems galactic civilization hasn't sent any expeditions to other major galaxies at all.
Maybe there's also alternate dimensions/realms. We've seen these in-universe, but to the populace at large, they might be seen as fantasy.
Then there's this exchange:
C-3PO: Is there anything I can do?
Luke Skywalker: Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock.

 

Perhaps they take Force users to extremes. A group who know how to use Force Storms(comic book version) is capable of stopping ships from using hyperspace so they are able to force a monopoly on FTL travel.

Dragons who use technology to fashion ships which fit them like suits of dragon armor so they can flit about the galaxy.

Interesting to think that with quadrillions of beings with advanced technology and a holonet could contribute a ridiculously large sum of fan films.

 

Time travel and parallel universes are the two facets of standard sci-fi that leap out immediately as something GFFA cultures might explore in their own entertainment, yeah.

I imagine alt. history fiction in general might be fairly popular, too.

And, on the flip side:

"What if faster than light travel was impossible and people were stuck on one rock?"

A LONG TIME FROM NOW . . . IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY . . .

WORLD WARS

(And it goes without saying that they have Doctor Who over there, because that's one of the hallmarks of any civilised society)

 

The GFFA's sci-fi fans would grumble that no fictional bad guys ever instantly developed a superweapon or brought one back in a slightly new design. Other fans would retort that they came to sci-fi for escapism, not reality, and it was nice not to think about such terrifying threats for a few hours.

 

And nobody would agree on the distance from one city to another.

 

I can see something similar to cyber-, steam- and dieselpunk work in SW, at least on some words.


For fantasy I can see discussions on what real life (that is SW) species should exist/be represented in the discussed fantasy ‘verse

 

Maybe historical fiction dealing with pre space flight societies,

Imagine an in-universe D&D equivalent with real Vong gods, the pius dea goddess, Cronal and all other kinds of crazy things!

 

Actually I forgot I made up an in-universe sci-fi story for EG to Warfare.

 

That's interesting maybe have a Star Wars equivalent of the history channel huh?

What do you think of my D&D idea?

 

This is from the fanon thread, so not canon but I thought it could be of interest

 

BattleSun Odyssey.

Since Human Replica Droids were still incredibly rare and expensive during the Vong War, I'd imagine a show about Cylons impersonating sentients would actually be kinda terrifying in the GFFA, too.

 

I would imagine that lost civilization tropes would be common. Stuff like Conan the Barbaran for example, where it ostensibly is set in these ancient kingdoms or civilizations (at least as accepted or postulated to a certain extent at the time) but with completely made up fantastic elements.

Actually considering that the wider cosmopolitan "galactic society" seems to essentially be non-religious, I could see religious works being a theme. The idea of gods interfering in sentient beings' affairs, fighting each other, bringing their followers into afterlives, etc.

I like the idea that the original BattleSun Odyssey dealt with the fears over HRDs and droid rights, and then the remake after the Vong War was a story about how sentients and droids were the same.

 

what do you base this thesis on?

 

This is such a great thread.

 

What you all think of IU fantasy? Lots of mythological gods and stuff along with non-force "powers", post apocalyptic fiction set after Hyperspace collapses and everything reverts to STL, I could probably list ideas off all day!

 

I'd like to think that stuff like matter replication, time travel and teleportation are heavily researched in some secret Imperial/New Republic lab.

 

Most of what I would've said (time travel, teleportation, matter replication) has already been said.

I'm going to add - a lot of their sci-fi and equivalents probably also revolve around real people, like the Jedi, but their powers and missions in the stories bear no relation to reality. The same way classic sixties spy fiction is often closer to superhero comics than it is to anything spies do in real life, or the way pirate-related fiction draws more on fantasy than real life piracy.

Also some of their fiction may, ironically, parallel real life without them realizing it. By the time of the movies, the Sith have been extinct for a millennium, so people probably think of them the same way they do the Knights Templar or the Hassassin today - long dead, shrouded in myth and legend, fodder for conspiracy theories. I wouldn't be surprise at all if people in the GFFA played some version of Assassin's Creed or read some version of Dan Brown novels, in which the Sith had survived until the present day and were still scheming behind the scenes. They just wouldn't realize it's actually true.

 

Doesn't preclude them being the stuff of in-universe SF. We've been working on theoretical implementations of FTL in the real world for years, but it's still by necessity a staple of real-world SF.

 

That would be a cool fanfic...

What do you think their fantasy equivalent would be like?

 

Are you being sarcastic?