What could a scientist in my Star Wars RPG be researching or working on?

Maximum7

Explorer
Im trying to write an RPG profile about a scientist who is working on something in the era of the New Republic. He does not believe in the Force. I just need something for him to be researching. It really isn’t that important to the story; it just has to sound cool and scientific.It can NOT be game-changing or something that can alter the story in a dramatic way Also it can’t have already been done in Legends or Canon. I want a fresh idea.

It cannot be

- A time machine

-A teleporter

-A matter replicator

-A singularity Weapon

- Any type of droid

-Anything to do with holograms

-A food synthesizer

- Anything to do with the Force or Midi-chlorians

- A shrink ray

-A freeze ray

-pico and femtotechnology

-A Dyson sphere or any type of megastructure.

-Liquid metal armor or a nano morph

-Any improvements on the hyperdrive

-Limb regeneration

-Hyperspace nullifier

-Holodeck

- Knowledge Transfer (Instant learning like in the Matrix)

-Philosophers Stone

-Kinetic weapons

-Solar sail

-Anything to do with kyber crystals

-Gene editing

-Mech suit

-Exosuit

-Gender change



In canon, during the Empire, scientists were researching methods to control droids, lasers that can punch through deflector shields and ship scale disintigrators. These ideas are therefore taken.
 

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Tonguez

A suffusion of yellow
Nanomorph tech (armour or droid) sounds cool - and would be a cool plausible addition to your game world

Food synthesisers or even terraforming could be options too
 





MarkB

Legend
How about personal shields? They were commonplace in the Old Republic, but were outpaced by advances in blaster technology. Maybe this scientist thinks he's got a way to make them viable again.
 

Janx

Hero
Books.
Social media.
FTL Communication
TCP/IP over continuous FTL Comms
A shield to protect a planet from being destroyed, since that happens a lot
the iPhone
PropagandaTron 5000. Not as flashy as the 9000 series, but just as capable of subverting a population to your side
BanthaWay - the only way to get rid of a dead Bantha
I Can't Believe It's Not Moon - artificial moons for planets that feel slighted on celestial bodies
OnTarget - an augmented reality training simulator to whip those StormTroopers into crack marksmen
HookedOnTronics - a toy that teaches your kids advanced circuit design
 

- Cost-affordable color screen technology. Everything is Star Wars seems to use monochromatic screens, probably justifiable in-universe for cost considerations. This guy's working to change that.

- Color-tunable blasters. It's established in-universe that blaster bolts can be any color. Invisible bolts (outside the human visual range) are possible, but not preferred because you can't see where your shots are going. If you could change color from visible to invisible on the fly, if could give troops a tactical advantage.

- X-ray specs.

- Gravity manipulation (beyond what they currently have, possibly very small scale control or very fast control). Bonus points if he's researching it for "good" purposes but it gets weaponized by someone else.

- Alternative fuels for star ships. Fuel seems to be a big plot point lately (TLJ, Solo). Run with it.
 


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