Old Republic vs Rise of the Empire and beyond...

[CRMcNeill]

[Pel]

[CRMcNeill]

[Bren]

[CRMcNeill]

[Bren]

[Murderbot]

Hello everyone this is my first post, but this thread is why I registered.

I guess the reason the 25k years of republic and the stagnation of tech works for me is the presence of the Jedi, who seem almost reactionary and likely to help keep things constant, the prevalence of interchangeable information technology and the lack of need.
I’m a Paleolithic archaeologist and as far we can tell, prior to agriculture, technology changed very, very slowly over tens of thousands of years, largely because what they had worked perfectly well for their environment.
Agriculture started out because the forager lifestyle suddenly became untenable.
Even after agriculture, there are places where tech changed really slowly like Egypt which changed culturally (but was almost universally illetrate too, so there was no hard code available to reference).
China in many ways actively discouraged change for a very, very long time.
Another thing i think about is the necessity of compatible technology in such a widespread civilization. If your droids and ships suddenly change up, you’re hosed when you’re a long way from home and you need to interface with local computers or get parts for your ship- that and the new technology would spread very slowly given the distances involved. It’s almost harder to believe that tech would be so compatible over such a vast volume of space to begin with.
The final reason, is that deep time really gets my imagination going.

[MrNexx]

One thing I think about in terms of games where long life spans are the norm is how longevity can be a conservative factor. Not always, but "We have always done things this way" can be a big factor, especially if your aged and more conservative members are engaged in teaching the younger generations.... Grandpa Jim taught the grandkids the way to do it, because the parents were working, and Grandpa Jim learned it from HIS Grandpa Chester, who had it from his Grandpa Manlove (actually the name of my great*x grandfather)... there will be adaptations, where Jim adds the variations he learned in his experience, but it's going to be a conservative factor, barring significant changes in how the world works.

When you throw in a well-adapted technology (i.e. where there's not much NEED to innovate), a huge population, and it can be difficult to overcome societal inertia.
_________________
"I've Seen Your Daily Routine. You Are Not Busy!"
“We're going to win this war, not by fighting what we hate, but saving what we love.”
http://rpgcrank.blogspot.com/

[Murderbot]

Definitely, and you’ve got guys like yoda hanging out. They live like a thousand years!

[MrNexx]

[Whill]

[Mamatried]

Welcome to the Pit, Murderbot.

I figuresd that the tech in star wars seesm to be advancing slowly as I have indicated in my inital thread, however as a amateur historian I can easiely see the pre agriculture slwo tech advancement.

Now we could say this too about the bronze to iron age as well, where the technology was not in how the weapons ( in this case) or horse carts or ships looks lsike but raher what they are made of.

I would think a ship from 1000BC (iron age) would be very similar to a ship from 400Ad a 1400 yeas span.

A sword remained a sword, and if we look to the roman empire, they had everything needed for the industial revolutions to kickk off alsready then, and this is debated but is often attributed to slavery that this never happened, as instead of inventing the machine, they just used more slaves.

So if we look to the development of arms and armor, we see very little differenc in 20.30 yea span, yes we get some mosre "hi tech" rifles, but they still shoot the bullet out the barrel, though with a progression from the ball and powder and then the cartridge then the smokeless powder and that is actually where we are now, smokeless powder cartridges.

We see insurgencies waging drawn out was with armsand armor dating back to ww2 even ww1.

So to me it is not somuch a develpment of technology as it is a "slight" imporovement.

and we should not forget manyof today's "modern" weapons are close to a century old.

and if we see star wars in the roman era context, we see a more or less constant technology, that is only pushed forward of the utmost need.

this to me also renders most if not all clone wars arma and armor almoat completely upto par with the newer imperial stuf, and with doctines and tactics in mind, some of the equipment and vessels even far superior still.

[Scots Dragon]