Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars?
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Some of their technology is vastly ahead of ours, other technologies are way behind. The behind stuff is far more interesting. Comms in Star Wars is weird and anachronistic with other tech in the show.
I also get a giggle out of tech used in the show only to drive plot: like how protagonists can scan ships for life forms but protagonists also only power down ships to evade the eye of a passing baddy ship.
Anacrhonistic?
They have instantaneous duplex comms, over millions of light year distances, without line of sight! That’s FTL communications.
It is modeled after the style of early radio comms for the cinematic drama, but technologically speaking they would be so far advanced from us that it might as well be magic.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
I remember someone explaining that the EU content explains the comms seeming anachronistic, when they are actually so super advanced that you need jamming in order to not immediately have all your light fighter ships get zapped by big guns.