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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5702804" data-attributes="member: 20741">You are making a common error here in terms of describing technological advancement in the Star Wars Universe.  The Star Wars Universe is one where technology has essentially been  stretched to the limits of possible achievement in all areas.  Star Wars assumes that technology has reached a climax across the board. All technological changes at this point are largely cosmetic or fractions of a percentage incremental improvements in terms of relative cost and performance.  While every thousand years or so there is some true breakthrough which goes beyond tiny incremental changes (a whole 3 PERCENT better, instead of .01 percent !), these innovations are exceedingly rare.In the millenia before KotOR, we saw the old lightsabers with an external power pack. By the time of KotOR, the self-contained power pack (a significant development across all technology) was in effect. But 4,000 years later -- it's the same tech. There has been no improvement of note.  Power technology and integration is at a MAX level. The end of scientific and engineering advancement is a very difficult concept to square with -- but it is at the heart of the Star Wars Universe, just the same.So the tech in the days of The Old Republic might be not quite as cheap and not quite as good as in the days of the Rebellion Era. But we are STILL talking comparatively small variations and very minor improvements upon a theme. In terms of the broad brush, the tech has existed for 12,000+ years at a mature "climax" level of implementation. Societies in both epochs have learned, in terms of science and engineering, all there is to know as a practical limit of knowledge. (Economies and societies ability to exploit this knowledge at a practical level changes greatly from locale to locale). But on Corruscant? It's pretty much always been at that level for thousands of years. Changes there are pretty much just about putting old wines into new bottles.  So yes, the artillery which is quite clearly depicted in the Clone Wars animated series was around 4,000 years earlier in the Old Republic era too -- and at all times in between. And before that, too, frankly.</blockquote>

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