Star Wars has a plethora of aliens living alongside humans, there is no reason to assume there are even more advanced aliens and the current ones can’t make tech.
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Nay@feddit.nl 4 days ago
I’ve never thought about it before…
It would be fun head-cacon to imagine that they created very little of it, and the rest was found throughout all the ruins in the galaxy. As if all intelligent life was suddenly wiped out just a few thousand years before humans arrived.
Forester@pawb.social 4 days ago
Long ago before the dark times before the mouse took over the Rattan empire conquered most of the inner rim. They invented a lot of the tech before their empire fell apart due to poor genetic planning.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It was also because they abused the dark side to power their tech, but dark tech has an effect on living beings. As a result of being around their dark tech for so long, it made them a more brutal, savage race than they already were. That culminated in them creating a supervirus with the intention of unleashing it upon everything that wasnt rakatan. But their slave races got wind of the virus, stole a sample, and altered it. Now, it only effects the rakatans and cuts them off from the force. I dont remember much of kotor 2 but i’d have to imagine kreia had some pretty interesting things to state on the matter considering the similarities between kreia’s goals and their goals.
Forester@pawb.social 4 days ago
But wasn’t the reason they were conquering everyone was so that they could utilize their genetic material to reproduce as they had somehow made themselves mostly sterile with all of their meddling and technology and the force?
From what I remember that’s also why humans are literally everywhere and why we are able to intermingle as it were with the more exotic humanoids.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I believe the general sterility was related to dark side degredation. They really just got brutally fucked by abusing the dark side as an entire culture and species. Which like, fuck them, they’re evil, but damn they really shot themselves in the foot.
As for gathering genetic data from the lesser races, I do not recall. They wanted to wipe out all other races afair so i dont see why they would want to keep their dna around, and from the rakatans i remember, their race would rather die than intentionally infuse themselves with the lesser races dna. They did conquer huge swaths of the galaxy and kept most everything theyd find as slaves, but those were viewed as highly expendable, not even worth treating decently enough that they survive the year.
fox2263@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They were mentioned in Andor.
The rakatan that is, not the rattan furniture empire.
Forester@pawb.social 3 days ago
As you can see by my edit, I am very much aware but spell check doesn’t like the word and I didn’t know how to spell it.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 days ago
But why would that be necessary as an explanation? We also invented all our shit, why wouldn’t they have done the same? I get that it’s a fun concept but as far as I can see nothing in the story even remotely suggests it.
Nay@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Just thinking fantastical ideas for fun