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Why Does Star Wars Technology NEVER Advance?

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Star Wars Technology Stagnation why does technology never evolve?

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35 comments

@jimmybacon3870 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
benevolent emperor palpatine hahahaha
@MoTrubl4u October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
A near constant state of war and rebellions causes technological and cultural stagnation
@berniethekiwidragon4382 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
Hmm... roast pork Ewok belly. Crispy skin...
@funnelvortex7722 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
The plateau theory makes 100% sense. Even on Earth we were slashing each other with swords and writing on parchments for millennia, the rapid technological progression was a thing of the past couple hundred years, but now we are starting to plateau a bit ourselves as we are hitting the limits of computing and whatnot and new innovations are becoming more and more incremental, and unless there’s another huge breakthrough we will be there for a while.

In Star Wars they are already pushing the limits of physics with FTL travel and gravity-warping tech, so it’s likely they’ve plateaued.
@robbgraves1586 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
"Moonsize peace keeping Stations" lol I almost spit my drink
@Jiub_SN October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
Honestly this is where the new canon is far better than the eu. I loved the old republic but always thought the fact that it was effectively exactly the same as thousands of years in the future was incredibly dumb. They could've at least taken things out of the world at this time to make things clearer and make it feel like the ancient galaxy
@quickfingers7062 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
Why does tech in Star Wars never advance? Well, why don’t we ask ourselves that question with reality. Take, for example, the wheel. The wheel was invented thousands and thousands of years ago, yet we still use it today, and in a much greater abundance than ever before. Sure, it’s gotten bigger and smaller and used different materials as technology progressed, but in the end, it was still the wheel. Sometimes, technological improvements does not simply mean advancement in capability, but advancements in affordability, compactness, speed of production, etc. I’m sure massive star destroyer sized ships were much more expensive and difficult to make thousands of years ago compared to the age of the Empire.

An analogy would be something like this: a decked out 20 year old desktop PC’s computation power, memory, and storage is comparable to the latest iPhone. The technological functionality and capabilities may be the same, but in terms of affordability, comfort, convenience, and production speed, it varies tremendously. Technological improvement does not necessarily equate to technological advancement.
@jakeg3733 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
They've reached the hypothetical singularity. It works, and there's no impetus to change it because of that. However new developments do happen... The Death Star is a great example. It was more a rediscovery of lost technology but they still refined it to peak efficiency
@Gyratus October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
You can also consider that they are a bit like frogs at the bottom of a well. They all know each other and for a long time they have been united in a single government. And with their common history of getting their tech from the rakatan it's not hard to see why tech would stagnate. They were not the ones who discovered the principles of the main tech so beside retro engineer it hard to diverge from the tech tree. Then since everyone share the same tech tree, hard to emulate another's vision since they are all blocked in this area of the galaxy as their frontiers are almost impossible to cross so no incredible neighbors new doctrine or whatever... Still there is tech improvement in SW like the evolution in armor between STTT and ATAT which became almost impervious to blaster fire... Legends books talked about meeting the Chriss ( not sure about the name) which is Thrawn race in the unknown regions who are way more advanced than the core races and their ships are powerful because of it. Same with the yuzuhan Vong with their very advanced bio tech.
@tatesmith9085 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
one thing to consider. Our history has gone through something rather similar. The dark ages were a time of scientific stagnation. ruled generally by a single entity. Without the Dark ages we may have hit this point of scientific and technological advancement some 400 years or so ago. it took one civil war within a country to advance one aspect of our technology. that was then shared post war and then two more major wars later as well as other smaller wars saw major advancement in a short amount of time. But we also still fall into the issues that the Star Wars Galaxy has, two ideals conflicting with each other that has caused more stagnation as one faction only seeks to further their own wealth and power, and the other claiming to seek the betterment of their people but facing heavy resistance from numerous egos that get in the way. add in other factors like a war faring group who believe in survival of the fittest that will also kill themselves off and a completely different faction threatening to destroy everything and you basically have what his currently happening on our world right now spread out over a galaxy's distance.
@strongarm852 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
There are really two parts. #1 thr Rakata were not first, they had a precursor civilization that uplifted them and help. The precursors were the true innovators. They built things like Centerpoint Station that still isn't understood today. Like the Rakata the Celestial were an entire race of Force Sensitives and their technology reflected that.
@thisboy6916 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
Ngl i think that was a huge transition for to the sponsors
@transformersrevenge9 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
''War has...umm...not really changed in the last few thousand years, now that I think about it...'' - Solid Snake in the Star Wars universe.
@damasek219 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
That's the question I have been asking myself. My simple and most pragmatic answer is: the invention of steam power and electricity completely changed our access to technology and increased our productivity. It totally changed the face of the earth in just one hundred years while for more than 6000 yrs of recorded history it has been just about the same. In SW universe they invented electricity and engine power long time ago. There's not much further you can push it. You can add an atomic energy and solar energy for some additional push but that's just about it. That's why it's been the same for so much of the history. Their age of technological revolution came long long time ago.

The other and maybe even more stronger reason is that SW is a mythical story. It's not sci-fi, it's fantasy. It's about force, about friendship, about ideas. In SW they look back for wisdom rather than forward. There's no technological development in SW for the same reason there is none in LOTR. It's actually quite contrary with LOTR, there is a decline usually from what was in the past. SW is written with very similar spirit to it.
@serenedoge9920 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
DRM and copyright? If a bunch of separate high end parts are necessary to construct a machine needed to conduct research and are owned by a bunch of tight-fisted corporations, then a lot of time might be spent just reinventing the wheel so to say instead of trying to wrestle the licenses necessary to even begin. Doubly so if 3D printers are used to make a bunch of stuff.
@paulohare4233 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
alan is my favourite ewok
@HonkMok October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
The technological peak theory is absolute nonsense. Compared to whats likely possible, the star wars technology ist totally primitive. i think there is no logical explanation to the stagnation. its just bad writing.
@nicholasmaude6906 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
Once the laws of nature are fully understood then technology will eventually peak and not advance any further because it's literally not possible to advance further due to the laws of physics.
@EvilJ069 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
2 minutes of stfu already...
@michaelhirschi3827 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
I guess if you think about it, our tech has grown exponentially in the areas of medicine, and communications, but not in things that take more power (transportation, space/underwater exploration etc..). Until we learn to master Fusion we are pretty stuck on most of our larger Tech, so maybe the peak theary is at least plausible.
@moguldamongrel3054 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
Probably for the same reason bows were dominant for x amount of time until the gun.
@sebastiannorrington3792 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
Eckharts ladder sid a similar subject it was called why does star wars technology advance ai slowly|star words lore you might want to team up on this subject.
@lessimcdowell9897 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
No more innovation means it’s time for communism! because Lucas refused apocalypse now because of the short leash the American army would keep him on in regards to bashing capitalism, and his overall message in thx 1138, I imagine the old republic are actually market socialists and the empire are fascists and phantom menace being about the rise of fascism and clone wars the rise of white nationalism really helps this theory
@Maggi9909 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
OR, ww2 combat is cool
@obil8648 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
Don’t fix it if it’s not broken. Basically if it works why would I want to do something different?
@williamalvarez9563 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
4:23 this, I like this, it kinda sumarizes pretty the root of the problem plaguing both groups, that is if course, the perpetuation of their conflict.
@Chegg-nn8sr October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
Oh no I got here when it had 666k views ;)
@henrykkeszenowicz4664 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
From what I know, Star Wars is a very complex but unrealistic piece of world building. There was an era in Star Wars when the Republic had the very first war with the Sith and Republican infantry used halberds ! I mean, the weapon of Medieval/Renaissance warfare, but in space, in a galactic war. It makes sense that earlier Republic would be less developed than the "present day" one, but imagining a space military use halberds is ridiculous(not in Warhammer 40k, but that universe completely sacrifices reality for the sake of epicness). It's as if when we colonize Mars, every other Earth's technology would be on the level of Ancient Rone. That would be pretty dope though, I despise modernity and especially nukes. If would be awesome if we fought every modern war in melee.
@navilluscire2567 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
Because long timelines were fuck all happens and technology stagnants is somehow impressive and a cheap way of giving a setting an air of mysticism.
@admiralackbar1286 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
They must be living in a simulation or something. Everyone is like "that hyperdrive maneuver in the last movie broke Star wars"... no, pretty much the hyperdrive itself did. The only reason ever stated that a maneuver like that was uncommon was some kind of computer safety on the ship. What, you can't turn the safety off? Ever? I mean is this some mystery of Rakkatan tech that the hyperdrive simply will not function without the safety and in 3 zillion years nobody's realized that if you break that safety off, you can create a hyperdrive torpedo about the size of an A-Wing that can... take out... most... planets... given it's going super-luminal speeds... or have I got this wrong and there's this very specific distance that the ship is still not "phased" into another dimension where it's going sub-light but really fast, then it phases and nothing would happen? But if nothing would happen why is everyone so worried about crashing into a sun?
@grahamsommers4876 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
smoothest fucking sponsor transition ive seen in my life. Respect.
@AceTheCap823 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
so 200,000 ago the Star Wars universe still had interstellar space travel wtf😭😭😭bro when was that universe like our level of technology or like cave man level.....also maybe I’m wrong but the Forerunners and Ancient Humans from Halo seem way more advanced than SW, maybe even the Covenant and UNSC, at least aesthetically
@cedriceric9730 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
Well a gun is still a gun and it would take discovering fusion batteries if it was ever to be replaced
@twistedyogert October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
I personally suspect that the reason technology is seemingly stagnant in the Galaxy is that it doesn't need to advance much. It's as good as it has to be to remain effective. It isn't about building more sophisticated technology, it's about building more effective technology.
@williamoverton7775 October 5, 2024 - 10:02 pm
The core can't be improved. Whatever they call a battery hasn't improved in 20000 years what they power with it comes and goes droids too

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