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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ankh-Morpork Guard" data-source="post: 3576260" data-attributes="member: 10079">That's more a problem with the two KotOR games than with the era, itself. To keep things recognizable, it seems that the designers decided to make the technology almost exactly identical to how things end up 4,000 years later when we get to the movies. This is one of many things that drives me up the wall about the games, because it doesn't make sense at all.HOWEVER, the origins of the era are in the Tales of the Jedi comics. Those DO show a galaxy with less technology. Everything looks completely different, and half of the galaxy is a huge unknown waiting to be explored. Not only that, but the bad guys are completely alien. The Sith come from who knows where in the galaxy and essentially wield what they consider magic in much more powerful ways than you see anywhere else. Their technology is also completely different from the ancient Republic's and they are even a clearly different species.At some point, yes there was a sort of galactic stagnation when it comes to technology, but it wasn't nearly that far back. The stagnation really occurred when the Empire grew out of the Old Republic and clamped down.While the games were fun, they just didn't represent the era as it had been previously shown(note that the first game is barely 50 years, if that, after the last of the original comics). If you take a look at the TotJ representation of the era, though, you get a much more interesting and unique time period to place games in than with what KotOR showed.</blockquote>

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