Star Wars: Redditor Explains the Franchise's Tech Tree Progression Perfectly

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While Star Wars is the first thing that comes to many minds when futuristic tech is mentioned, one fan has looked deeper at the lore and discovered a very interesting trend in the franchise’s technological development.

Star Warshas been the face of science fiction for decades, with multiple trilogies, spin-off series, and a whole host of other iterations in every medium imaginable. Thanks to this, the franchise has become a household name and developed a massive amount of lore, much of which dealt with the futuristic technology featured in the franchise. While a lot of this was lost after the Disney acquisition, leading to many questioning if the Star Wars Canon Reset was a good move, the franchise has still kept a lot of its futuristic tech and even introduced more in its newer content.

Despite its popularity, many fans have no understanding of how Star Wars’ iconic tech came to be, from the cloning techniques used in the prequel series to the powerful Star Wars starfighters used throughout the franchise. However, user Atavast on Reddit seems to have a perfect grasp of how this wonderful scientific canon works. Responding to another fan’s post firing up discussion on the next potential innovation in Star Wars’ technology, Atavast would give a great answer summed up in its first sentence which reads “Depends on what resource they find.”

The Star Wars galaxy's tech changes over time as resources are discovered and eventually run out. In the Old Republic days they used kolto for medical uses and cortosis for plasma-resistant armor. However, the species that produced kolto went extinct, and the cortosis mines ran dry. In the movie era they found a new species that produced bacta for medicine, but they're reduced to using less effective laminate and durasteel for armor. They had an innovation to use Kyber crystals for massive energy outputs — but after building two planet-destroying superweapons with those crystals, and then those weapons subsequently exploding, it's