Chat corner 56: Science and technology
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dreamwarsWelcome to this week’s chat corner!
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The prompt for this week is “science and technology” - whatever you would like to include under it. Intrigued that GFFA seems to have both anti-gravity technology and combustion engines? What the heck is a “comm frequency” and how come it exists alongside a “holonet”? And how exactly does bacta immersion heal internal injuries?
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Date: 2022-05-16 05:34 am (UTC)The Dark Side post is a thing, in case bad science is a really sore topic.
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Date: 2022-05-16 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-17 06:07 am (UTC)Science in SW is so tricky! It pretends to be sci-fi, but in fact it's a science-fantasy and it very aggressively leaves science and technology as vague as possible.
I've read writing advice once that said that magic systems don't have to be logical, they have to be consistent, and I've found that it works for Star Wars science and technology perfectly. As long as we can extrapolate how it will behave, we're good.
And, what's great on that concept, it means that we as an audience still can think about it and try to figure things out (as opposed to the general advice of "don't take it seriously it's just Star Wars"). We're not trying to figure out how it could work in real world, we're trying to reconstruct the rules. They might be built on real-world examples, but they also might not.
Anyway, it's fun to think about.
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Date: 2022-05-17 01:51 pm (UTC)until the dark times, until the mouse took over. It’s what kind of sets it apart from other big sci fi movies.no subject
Date: 2022-05-16 11:18 pm (UTC)One thing that I'd really like to know more about is their AI programs. It was striking to me in the Boba Fett series how we could have that ship building scene which was so reliant on manual labor similar to our own, yet there were what we'd consider near-sentient droids helping in the work! It seems so odd to have these vastly different levels of tech co-existing.
Also, speaking of Boba Fett, how do we have a mag lev train going over desert with no track? For that matter how do any speeders work? Why are they levitating?
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Date: 2022-05-17 06:25 am (UTC)I don't think I've read the first one, but I suspect it might be built on the bathtub bacta meta from Tumblr. Which is very cool, ngl.
The second is definitely one part of The Desert Storm, although I don't remember which one.
"vastly different levels of tech co-existing" --- oh yeah, that's very Star Wars! You have holograms, but also completely manual flight controls, and those weird projection boards, and droids, and those funky microphones from TBOBF...
I gotta say, I absolutely adore the "old machinery" aesthetic that Star Wars has going on. It's just so pretty.
the maglev train --- ahhh, the repulsorlift system. XD It's handwaved as antigravity, but I just think about it as a magic system, tbh. Things go up, and stay up; and then you have combustion engines to push things around.
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Date: 2022-05-17 08:25 pm (UTC)Obligatory Ep. II:AotC Anniversary Thread
Date: 2022-05-17 02:27 am (UTC)