What do you personally think a society as advanced as Star Wars has left to do or discover? Dark matter and dark energy power Starkiller Base by the way so they know about that mystery and have basically solved it. Time travel and teleportation are possible but they are rare occurrences. Matter replication I think exists but it’s always left out. I was always wondering what a New Republic scientist could be working on so he could get grant money
New Republic scientist?
The Clone Wars had Dr. Nuvo Vindi, Sionver Boll, Ovolot Qail Uthan, Bant'ena Fhernan, Tryn Netzl and Reye Nenilin (only the first two are canon.) Vindi, Uthan and Fhernan made bioweapons, Netzl found the cure for a bioweapon, Boll developed an electro-proton bomb and Nenilin worked in genetics.
And TOR had Demagol, also a geneticist.
37 minutes ago, Leia Hourglass said:What do you personally think a society as advanced as Star Wars has left to do or discover? Dark matter and dark energy power Starkiller Base by the way so they know about that mystery and have basically solved it. Time travel and teleportation are possible but they are rare occurrences. Matter replication I think exists but it’s always left out. I was always wondering what a New Republic scientist could be working on so he could get grant money
Off the top of my head: Artificial Beskar, Hyperspace Tracker Jammer, Shields strong enough to block Death Star rays, the ability to move planets (like that one in Legends), how to use gravity generation to disrupt incoming fire/affect enemy ships (I can't remember if this has been done, it rings a bell for something though. . . maybe not Star Wars?).
Catalyst has a bunch of examples, listing fields and reasons before they were co-opted into weapons design or simply exploded.
On 4/17/2019 at 8:42 AM, Leia Hourglass said:What do you personally think a society as advanced as Star Wars has left to do or discover? Dark matter and dark energy power Starkiller Base by the way so they know about that mystery and have basically solved it. Time travel and teleportation are possible but they are rare occurrences. Matter replication I think exists but it’s always left out. I was always wondering what a New Republic scientist could be working on so he could get grant money
Discover the protomolecule.
I've always got the impression that the skywalker era of Star Wars was in a state of severe scientific decline. Which after millennia after millennia of civil wars, homicidal religious cults and general strife, followed by a thousands years of relevtive peace, kinda makes sense. If you go back as far as the Great hyperspace war, the technologies were still improving. The Jedi used lightsabers that required external power to use. The Sith used regular weapons imbued with the force.
It was wasn't until the Sith improved the lightsaber designs and turned them on the Jedi that we even saw the one we see in the skywalker era. That advancement happened some 5000 years before the attack on Yavin. After the great hyperspace war we have the mandolrian wars and the first great schism, which were flooded with tech that make the GCW seem like a side show. There were Sith that could project thousands of illusions to the battlefield, and rip the cores of stars out.
I feel like when the New Sith Wars ended and the republic had a solid 1000 years of relative peace the technologies started declining. Even the First Order, and their newfangled tech isn't really all that impressive given the tech of the immortal empire of even the old Sith Empire. As the story moves furth forward, even major characters are clinging to more powerful, older methods. Kylo's lightsaber design is supposed to be quite ancient from what I understand.
On 4/26/2019 at 8:25 PM, Darth Sanguis said:I've always got the impression that the skywalker era of Star Wars was in a state of severe scientific decline. Which after millennia after millennia of civil wars, homicidal religious cults and general strife, followed by a thousands years of relevtive peace, kinda makes sense. If you go back as far as the Great hyperspace war, the technologies were still improving. The Jedi used lightsabers that required external power to use. The Sith used regular weapons imbued with the force.
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It was wasn't until the Sith improved the lightsaber designs and turned them on the Jedi that we even saw the one we see in the skywalker era. That advancement happened some 5000 years before the attack on Yavin. After the great hyperspace war we have the mandolrian wars and the first great schism, which were flooded with tech that make the GCW seem like a side show. There were Sith that could project thousands of illusions to the battlefield, and rip the cores of stars out.
I feel like when the New Sith Wars ended and the republic had a solid 1000 years of relative peace the technologies started declining. Even the First Order, and their newfangled tech isn't really all that impressive given the tech of the immortal empire of even the old Sith Empire. As the story moves furth forward, even major characters are clinging to more powerful, older methods. Kylo's lightsaber design is supposed to be quite ancient from what I understand.
Well, that is kind of mixing canon and legends. If we look purely at canon, there is still a development in lightsaber technology though. The oldest design we know is the "Malachor type" used by Kylo Ren and originating in the time of the siege of Malachor. That is probably the Canon version of the KotOR era. In that time the Jedi were seemingly still limited in their technological capability to contain the Kyber crystals energy output and had to build these energy vents into their sabers. Presumably Kylo used that technology to make his unstable, cracked crystal work.
Another old design we know is the dark saber. It is younger than the Malachor sabers though. So we can assume it is a development step between the "current" and older ones. Maybe the flat blade dissipates energy better than one with a round cross section and can thus replace the vents. So there definitely is some development visible. Maybe the Fallen Order sword represents another step in the weapons evolution?
Scientific progress seems to be largely limited to kyber stuff, energy technology (sequel era energy cell magazines are supposed have a larger energy capacity) and biology. If was a scientist in the star wars galaxy biologist would probably the way to go. Between researching alien life, genetics, bio weapons and the connection between life and the force there seems to be a lot to be done here.
Edit: the Tarkin novel also seems to imply that there is development done regarding hyperspace navigation, with regular traffic being guided by navigation node thingies and ship mounted navigation systems being cutting edge.
Edited by LennoxPoodle