I tend to suspect that development cycles in Star Wars would more likely to closely resemble those of the Second World War - such as the P-51 that took 149 days to go from, "We need a fighter that can do X," to a flying, functional prototype - an aircraft whose designers and manufacturer said that they could design and put into production an entirely new fighter faster than they could acquire the tooling to construct a fighter already in production... Rather than the development of a modern jet fighter that can take a decade or more from initial concept to flying, functioning fighter.

@Ghostofman I get where you are coming from to make a great story. For me though, I have a hard time accepting that any piece of a starship engine would be so rare as to require that level of control in a galaxy so full of ships flying around. There are probably several billion ships zipping around space at any given time. Even if some are 50 years old, there would be so many ships being pumped out every single day from major corporations that nothing in their design could be so rare. And even if you did say the Plotonium was a controlled material the manufacturers would be working with such massive quantities that they could easily loose a shipment or two without it being the faintest blip on the radar.

Now if there is something about a ship that is special, then heck yes break out he Plotonium and give your best Machiavellian GM laugh.

Right, but reread my last post. The engines are the easy example when comparing it to real world. There's probably millions of parts that might hold the rare component. On the x-wing it could probably be related to the powerplant when you think about all the power hungry systems that thing has to keep running.

Developing a craft really depends if your designing it from the ground up, or using parts "off the shelf". We also really have no idea what level of fabrication star wars has. Mostly what i think is needed is raw materials, and then you have a robot factory building the parts and assembling them.

I tend to suspect that development cycles in Star Wars would more likely to closely resemble those of the Second World War - such as the P-51 that took 149 days to go from, "We need a fighter that can do X," to a flying, functional prototype - an aircraft whose designers and manufacturer said that they could design and put into production an entirely new fighter faster than they could acquire the tooling to construct a fighter already in production... Rather than the development of a modern jet fighter that can take a decade or more from initial concept to flying, functioning fighter.

Those development cycles certainly fits with the EU/Legends development times and the development times implied for both fighters and capital ships in the canon material fit closer to World War II development and construction cycles then in current military units.

Active conflict does wonders for military R&D. Unfortunately it's the poor sods on the ground/vehicle/air/sea that are bleeding to get the higher ups to go "we need something that can do X". In addition to the WWII examples I would put forward the C-47-C-130 gunship development in the Vietnam war, going from sticking some heavy machine guns onto a cargo plane to a fully fledged gunship in the same conflict

Well AoR is supposed to be in the Legends universe no? I am pretty sure with the old canon thrown out a lot of the stuff in the books doesn't event exist anymore (heck, I can't even find an entry for Corellia in the databank...)

Corellia will always be canon (databank regardless) Han Solo referred to it in Episode IV on screen:

"I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers mind you, I'm talking about the big Corellian ships now. She's fast enough for you old man."

The databank isn't very well set up and IMO needs some serious work. For example the Arquitens-class light cruiser appeared in both The Clone Wars where it was used by the Republic military, and Rebels where it is used by the Imperial Starfleet but its databank entry completely ignores its appearances in The Clone Wars and only talks about its first appearance in Rebels.

Well AoR is supposed to be in the Legends universe no? I am pretty sure with the old canon thrown out a lot of the stuff in the books doesn't event exist anymore (heck, I can't even find an entry for Corellia in the databank...)

Corellia will always be canon (databank regardless) Han Solo referred to it in Episode IV on screen:

"I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers mind you, I'm talking about the big Corellian ships now. She's fast enough for you old man."

No necessarily. Corellia could refer to a cluster of star systems or an area of space rather than a planet now. Perhaps "Corellian" refers to a species that builds ships now.

While I, and every other SW player I know, will continue to use it as a planet, we can only cross our fingers and hope that disney does the same.

I'm pretty sure that what Corellia is was sent in stone long before the EU started.

So much like another thread I had started, this one has just become a battle of canon this, canon that (of which I am a guilty party as well) and the main issue of advice on is it enough to lower the price and rarity, maybe remove a system is too much or not enough balance has been ignored, only to be replaced by "the book is right, you are wrong to change it TBS."

I think I have to make it clear in future posts that I'm deciding to make a change, here's why, can someone help me figure out then balance and say "I've made up my mind, if you want to argue, leave." Rather than get caught up trying to defend my position and forgetting why I started the thread in the first place.

Consider my involvement in this thread done.