I made a short list of stuff that I think would be challenging for a scientist to create in Star Wars but I don’t know if it would definetely be very difficult or even worth creating. Tell me if it would a) Be a challenge and b.) Worth doing?

I have provided links for some of them if you are unfamiliar with them

1.) Hypercomputer-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation

2.) Matrioksha Brain

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain

3.) Water manufacturing-

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/manufacture-water.htm

4.) Ringworld

https://www.trevorwrites.com/blog/2019/8/5/impossible-technologies-1-ringworlds

5.) Bio-building - Basically a building that is “alive” in the fact that it works like a biological system. I know the Yuuzhan Vong could probably do this and I think that was what was in Riptide but I’m not sure.

6.) Synthetic coaxium

7.) Human-Animal hybrid -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

8.) Hyperspace based structure - Basically a ship or space station that “sits” in hyperspace

9.) Artificial cosmogenesis - The creation of a Star

10.) Monopolium -

https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0701133

11.) Mezoelectronics - electronics of the nanoscale with components using the effect of a strong dimensional quantum.

12.) Gastrobot -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrobot

13.) Axion field propulsion -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_field_(pseudoscience)

14.) Gravitational balloon - Completely hollow shell worlds created on a planetary or larger scale by contained gas alone

15.) Coral continent - An entire artificial continent grown by genetically engineered coral

16.) Quarkics - analogous to "electronics", but of course a million times faster and smaller.

17. Global brain -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_brain

18. Ouroboros habitat-

https://www.hexapolis.com/2015/10/19/mits-conceptualized-mars-habitat-makes-use-of-native-silica-on-the-alien-planet/

I think a lot of these would fall under "theoretically possible, but impractically expensive" in Star Wars tech.

Arkanians made enough genetically manipulated members of their own species, I'm sure at least one had animal parts included. Guri style replica droids are likely gastrobots to some degree since they have real skin. There's a few species that live in trees, and its a galaxy with sapient plants and even minerals so I think bio-building may have naturally occurred somewhere. The Mon Calamari made entire cities out of coral, so a continent would fall under theoretically possible.

On 10/4/2019 at 1:35 AM, NanashiAnon said:

I think a lot of these would fall under "theoretically possible, but impractically expensive" in Star Wars tech.

Impractically expensive? On what scale? I mean this is a franchise that has the resources and finances to build a moon size (and later planet size) space station, with hyperspace capability, capable of generating and focusing enough energy to blow up a planet, and later able to suck in, contain, and harness all of the matter and energy of an entire STAR , and then hurl it out at multiple targets simultaneously blowing them up. That's an insane amount of engineering to be able to do that one thing that Starkiller base does all by itself. It's also a franchise that already has a planet sized city (Coruscant), examples of equipment capable of entirely reforming planets, and basically every other crazy scifi idea a writer has ever thought up.

So why would any of it be "impractical" for such a franchise? Because it's all impractically expensive, but that's never stopped the franchise before.

In my opinion, none of the above mentioned examples, are outside the realm of possibility for Star Wars. They already are capable of building on a ridiculously large scale.

On 10/4/2019 at 12:42 AM, Leia Hourglass said:

I made a short list of stuff that I think would be challenging for a scientist to create in Star Wars but I don’t know if it would definetely be very difficult or even worth creating. Tell me if it would a) Be a challenge and b.) Worth doing?

I think all of your examples would be "difficult" in the sense that building the insanely huge things they build in Star Wars is not easy. We see this in Return of the Jedi, as the Imperial officer at the beginning is clearly having difficulty building the Death Star on the schedule that Palpatine has in place. It's not a question of "can we build this thing", because they obviously can, and have already. It's the question of "we can't build it in 2 weeks." So the only issues I would see hindering any of these projects, is availability of resources (but in a galaxy to plunder, that's mostly a question of simply obtaining them to build stuff.), and time/infrastructure to build them.

Are they worth doing? Yeah I'd say any and all of those projects are "worth" doing, or at least could be considered worth it to somebody in the franchise.

On 10/8/2019 at 3:02 PM, KungFuFerret said:

I think all of your examples would be "difficult" in the sense that building the insanely huge things they build in Star Wars is not easy. We see this in Return of the Jedi, as the Imperial officer at the beginning is clearly having difficulty building the Death Star on the schedule that Palpatine has in place. It's not a question of "can we build this thing", because they obviously can, and have already. It's the question of "we can't build it in 2 weeks." So the only issues I would see hindering any of these projects, is availability of resources (but in a galaxy to plunder, that's mostly a question of simply obtaining them to build stuff.), and time/infrastructure to build them.

Are they worth doing? Yeah I'd say any and all of those projects are "worth" doing, or at least could be considered worth it to somebody in the franchise.

To be fair the current Canon across Rogue One, Thrawn, Rebels and Catalyst we do see that the Death Star was the definitive project of the Empire, and an immense amount of time and effort went into it's creation, including a vast conspiracy and the plundering of innumerable worlds just to get the raw materials, as well as the entire planet of Genosis utilised as a workforce.

But then again the First Order just casually hollowed out a planet. Which may have been Hyperspace capable, I am not sure we ever see or hear that being implied, its just a ****** concept to eat your star if it isn't.

46 minutes ago, Spartancfos said:

To be fair the current Canon across Rogue One, Thrawn, Rebels and Catalyst we do see that the Death Star was the definitive project of the Empire, and an immense amount of time and effort went into it's creation, including a vast conspiracy and the plundering of innumerable worlds just to get the raw materials, as well as the entire planet of Genosis utilised as a workforce.

Yes I know that it took them a lot of time and effort, I stated that in my post that's what my "difficult" comment was referring to. My point is that when you are working on the engineering scale that is literally planetary, then I don't see why any of the above mentioned engineering projects are any more impossible. The only issue I personally see, is whether or not the group who wants to build the thing, whatever it is, has access to the resources/infrastructure needed to pull it off. I mean all of these projects are super crazy scifi speculation. So I don't see how anyone can say "yes, totally believable to think you can build a planet sized space station that is capable of drawing in all the matter of a star (which is more matter than the station I might add, compact it into a much smaller area (bordering on making a black hole mind you), and then shoot that material out in multiple projectiles, but making a ring world?! Come on, that's crazy talk!!" I mean it just doesn't make any sense. Star Wars has already established, from pre-existing examples of the capabilities of their technology and manufacturing scale, that there is basically nothing beyond the capability of someone in the galaxy. It might take years, it might take a LOT of resources, but it's totally doable. So I don't see why any of them should be disqualified simply on the basis of "they're just too crazy hard to build." Because Star Wars already said "hold my beer" to that comment from New Hope, and has only escalated it since.

Now, if the question is "Can a party of PC's pull these things off?" That is a totally different question, as most parties are not running a massive, intergalactic industry capable of pulling off engineering feats on the planetary scale. They could though, if that's what they want to do. But to have one of the above mentioned ideas show up because the GM wants them in the story as a plot element, or background scenery? What's honestly stopping them? Because "that's just too difficult" just doesn't really hold water in my opinion.

I just watched the EP IX trailer (in another topic) and just thought of something else impossible for a Scientist to research in the Star Wars universe:

Continuity.