What is the explanation for high technology in Star Wars?

  • Forester@pawb.social
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    7 days ago

    But wasn’t the reason they were conquering everyone was so that they could utilize their genetic material to reproduce as they had somehow made themselves mostly sterile with all of their meddling in bio technology and the force?

    From what I remember that’s also why humans are literally everywhere and why we are able to intermingle as it were with the more exotic humanoids.

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      7 days ago

      I believe the general sterility was related to dark side degredation. They really just got brutally fucked by abusing the dark side as an entire culture and species. Which like, fuck them, they’re evil, but damn they really shot themselves in the foot.

      As for gathering genetic data from the lesser races, I do not recall. They wanted to wipe out all other races afair so i dont see why they would want to keep their dna around, and from the rakatans i remember, their race would rather die than intentionally infuse themselves with the lesser races dna. They did conquer huge swaths of the galaxy and kept most everything theyd find as slaves, but those were viewed as highly expendable, not even worth treating decently enough that they survive the year.

      Edit: yeah i went ahead and read the entire forum page for them, no mention of harvesting dna. It does mention that the cause of their collapse was dark side degredation though so ngl kinda proud i remembered that. That page is missing a ton of info on the rakatans though, so you could very well be correct and that page simply doesnt mention it.

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        7 days ago

        So mind you I haven’t read any of this shit in almost 20 years but from what I remember it was something along the lines of using the humans as walking breeding tanks not that they would be combining DNA, but that the humans would have to be able to be compatible enough to house a growing embryo from the aliens as a surrogate mother

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          I spent a couple minutes searching and i cant find anything about that. That would be some pretty cool lore and go a ways to explain why humans are compatable with so many species. I did find some sources that state that humans were their preferred slaves, and that they massively helped humanity by taking their slaves all across the galaxy during a time when the infinite empire was the only group to have hyperdrive tech. Humans were working to colonise their solar system and the surrounding areas when we got conquered by the rakatans. It is worth noting that coruscant is the cannonical home world of humans in star wars, which means the rakatans at one point conquered coruscant. It’s also worth noting that “Earth” does exist in legends lore, han solo goes to Earth and i think he fights dinosaurs, i cant remember.