Lit Is bacta a substitute for Nanomedicine in the Star Wars universe?

No mention is ever made of nanomedicine in Star Wars canon. Is it because bacta can accomplish what nanomedicine can accomplish or could the two exist as different procedures?

 

There's mention of people who are allergic to bacta and how utterly screwed those people are in most cases, which is unfortunate because it implies that medicine hasn't kept up with other technology as a result of bacta.

 

there has never been any use for nanomedicine.

it was kolto 4000 years BBY, and by the time of ABY, it was always have been bacta. They are all liquids and therefore

nanomedicine doesn't exist because magic water (kolto or bacta) solves every solvable disease or injury.

 

Star Wars is important to remember as having technology but also being a technological hodge podge. There are places with droids which are Medieval in all other respects and Luke lives like a 1970s farmer -- it's just he CAN farm on a planet with no oceans.

Bacta, essentially, just works like an herbal supplement which causes your body to heal much-much faster than normal.

It's not anything super-tech.

 

Robot parts are the substitute of nanomedicine or medicine in general. Guy has a tumor? put a couple of implants on his brain. Fella cut his finger trying to slice an avocado? Chop it off an put a robot one there. Pinkeye? you know the drill...

 

Mind you, cybernetics either work as replacements or turn you into more machine than man.

 

We can speculate on the in-universe reason they don't have nanotechnology, but the out of universe reason is that it's one of those bits of technology like teleportation that just seems out of place in Star Wars. It's just too, for lack of a better word, Star Trek-ey.

The most prominent example of a bacta allergy I can think of is Ton Phanan from the Allston Rogue Squadron books, and he was turned into a cyborg. So if anything I think bacta allergies imply the opposite: that their medical technology is advanced and not solely dependent on bacta.

 

Star Wars difference between Star Trek is that life in Star Wars is not substantially different from life in RL. Droids exist but they're not making life substantially different from having a servant or employee. It's a used universe where people work long hours, have too little money, and get into bloody wars.

Star Trek is about how humanity has changed, Star Wars is how humanity (and other races) are all the same.

Albeit, nanotech works in Star Trek the same way it does in Star Wars.

It will show up for an adventure and then never get mentioned again.





Like here where the Empire has built a nanotech plague that will turn all of Cloud City's inhabitants into droids.

Or here where it will destroy all life in the galaxy.