Travel time from core to rim of any continent on Earth is only a few hours. We still have plenty of lawless areas.
We don't have a worldwide military dictatorship running things, unlike the Star Wars galaxy.
Travel time from core to rim of any continent on Earth is only a few hours. We still have plenty of lawless areas.
Why would ships of the line not have the best hyperdrives?
Hmm. I'm not sure what is cannon and what isn't anymore. At least not about the past. I thought the Empire and old Republic existed at the same time thousands of years in the past.
In any case, at the time of Episodes 1-3, there are factions with enough ships to destroy worlds that weren't the old Republic. If travel were that easy, even at a week to travel, what I suggested would still be easy to accomplish. Travel a week and hit a planet with overwhelming force. Leave and travel back. You'd be home before the enemy could mobilize and get to your undefended planets. Rinse and repeat for both sides.
Travel time from core to rim of any continent on Earth is only a few hours. We still have plenty of lawless areas.
Travel time from core to rim of any continent on Earth is only a few hours. We still have plenty of lawless areas.
They have perfectly good hyperdrives. However, they are also humongous.
My understanding is that none of the stuff about thousands of years ago is canon now. That's all EU. We have one Republic, on Empire, as depicted in the movies.
For all their advances in technology over our world, it seems that the arms/defenses race has left the Star Wars universe in a place where military tactics don't differ all that much from our own. They still need to put boots on the ground, for the most part. And, the number of boots required to pacify a planet is very, very large. Sides need to resort to rapidly constructed drones or cone armies to be able to manage a major war...
If travel time was only a few hours from core to rim, there would be no lawless areas.
I don't really think the Empire did need to put boots on the ground. They proved that they have the guts to just blow up a world. After the second or third lawless world they melted with an imperial fleet or three, nobody else would mouth off.
We can fly to Somalia in less than a day. Why are there still pirates there?
We can get into Mexico in a couple hours. Why are the cartels still causing trouble?
Why would the Empire bother spending resources to secure Tattooine. It's only a problem when it becomes a problem. Send some troops in to find Obi-Wan Bin Laden, but we're not going to be able to 'control' the place without wasting money. And who wants to be around those weird aliens anyway?
That was Tarkin's theory, at least. Leia disagreed: "the more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."