technology advances

[MasterN64]

I hope im not the only one to notice this but u would think in 4000 years there would be some technology advances. I first noticed the first time when i was playing that there was the same old blasters, lightsabers, etc. Heck, the only thing i didn't see in the movies are vibroblades(however they do exist in some EU books based around the movies) The only thing that i am hoping for are unnoticable upgrades for blasters, armor etc.

[eidospsogos]

this has already been covered in great detail on this thread.

 

http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=120094

[MasterN64]

should have looked be4 i posted.

[eidospsogos]

that's okay. the discussion apparently went on further than i knew about and ended with this comment:

 

Originally posted by KakashiSensei

Actually, the weapon and ship models were way too early for its time. If you read the KOTOR comics, the lightsabers had spikes, loose wires and components, ghetto looking, and were fat and big. The guns looked crude in the comics compared to those in luke's time. And the Leviathan resembles the first designs of star destroyers, seems a little too early considering the warships during Exar Kun's time were mainly rectangular with loose architecture.

 

to which i will reply here as i cannot get apost to work on that thread:

 

well i have to disagree there. the war with exar kun happened only 40 to 50 years before the plotline of KOTOR the game. and here are some links to pictures of kun's lightsaber. doesn't look too different to me.

 

 

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/5147/xrgallry.htm

 

http://www.galacticholonet.com/Weapons/Exar_Kuns_Lightsaber.html

 

and here are a couple of entires from the star wars encyclopedia:

 

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Archaic Lightsaber

this was the name used by Jedi scholars and historians to denote the first lightsabers ever developed. Unlike the elegant weapons of the Jedi Knights used during the last decades of the Old Republic, the archaic lightsaber was designed as a siege weapon. Using "frozen blaster" technology, these lightsabers required a separate power pack which was often worn on the back. Over the millennia, the Jedi Knights were able to miniaturized most of the components used in the construction of a lightsaber, most notably power sources, to create the simple weapon known to most beings of the modern era.

 

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that entry made a direct reference to the fact that the lightsabers used during the time of the OLD REPUBLIC were different from the lightsabers you were referring too. the obes you are referring to are called frozen blaster technology.

 

defined by the star wars encyclopedia:

 

Frozen Blaster Technology

this was the name given to the theory and technology behind the first lightsabers ever produced in the galaxy. Knowing that laser and blaster weapons could produce coherent bolts of light and energy, the ancient Jedi hoped to "freeze" the energy into a solid blade. These early lightsabers required tremendous amounts of power, which could only be provided by dedicated generators. Thus, these early weapons - known as archaic lightsabers by Jedi scholars - were primarily siege weapons with the power pack strapped to the wielder's back. (PJSB)

 

so there we have what you were mentioning defined and specifically set apart from the "the elegant weapons of the Jedi Knights used during the last decades of the Old Republic."

 

so add this to the fact that a lightsaber hilt of historic note from 50 years prior to this game looked practically no different(except cooler in my opinion) than the ones in the game and i'd say your time reference is alittle off. after all the Old Republic at the time of the game had existed for 25000 years. so maybe at the beginning of the Old Republic you are right. but you are not correct by the time of the game.

 

as far as the star destroyers are concerned they were produced by an artifact of a highly advanced civilization that had caused it's own destruction, they do not fit in to comparisons of other ships as nothing was known of this race until now.