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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8992770" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Right, but she is, in some weird part of weapons research, doing work beyond the comprehension of normal people in the field. I very much doubt that your students are up to that, and in the very unlikely situation that they are I would anticipate that they spend a lot of time on it rather than it being a side project to their very full schedule of fighting for galactic freedom.In a premodern society, it is easy to be a polymath, when most fields of study are underdeveloped. As our own society came into the 20th century the era of polymaths being the ones doing cutting edge intellectual work basically ended, as being at the absolute top of one field meant neglecting other studies, at least in highly technical fields. One has to imagine in a whole galaxy of people with hyper-advanced technology a technological breakthrough so complicated professionals in the relevant field could not even comprehend it would not come from a teenager, much less one with a pretty full schedule of other things. Perhaps if we follow the fan theory that the galaxy far, far away is overwhelmingly illiterate it makes more sense.I like the character by the way, I just thought they were already stretching the bounds of credible writing with her being multi-hyper-talented before we got the plotline where she had also invented the un-reverse-engineerable Bescar targeting weapon several years earlier when she was 15 or whatever.</blockquote>

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