I always felt the poor information sharing in Star Wars contributed strongly to the universe being so interesting. Usually people would get on a spaceship and fly to another planet to learn something new. A lot of secret info being passed around on USB equivalents. Anything they have coming close to an internet sucks and is going down constantly. If one of them has a walkie talkie then it has no other functions, and will probably stop working mid mission.
My point being that the second Anakin left Tattooine, no one who knew him probably ever heard about him again. Hell, in the original Star Wars movie they made it seem like Vader himself wasn’t even well known to the common people.
I thought the issue is that wireless transmission can only go the speed of light, which is incredibly slow on galactic scales. Interstellar communication generally relies on ships transporting that data through hyperspace.
Could be true, but they have hologram communicators that work on an interstellar scale in real time. Technology is just weirdly lopsided in general there, I like it.
This is the current (and best imo) 'retconned' explanation. It's been the one the series has kinda quietly operated under for a while, and when you have the rest of the tech in the plot play along with the paradigm, it works well.
I know Star Wars Outlaws got a lot of (deserved) flak, but the way the technology worked in the background of the setting was a master class in utilizing this paradigm.
Basically, the Wild West spirit has always been a part of SW. They literally operate under 'The Pony Express' rules as it comes to information dissemination, to spread the news out to all the disparate homesteads planets out in the big expansive praire space.
Yeah, thinking about it, there’s a lot of examples of interstellar wireless communication, though it seems very limited, spotty, and often traceable (which is why the Rebellion is always delivering by hand).
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I always felt the poor information sharing in Star Wars contributed strongly to the universe being so interesting. Usually people would get on a spaceship and fly to another planet to learn something new. A lot of secret info being passed around on USB equivalents. Anything they have coming close to an internet sucks and is going down constantly. If one of them has a walkie talkie then it has no other functions, and will probably stop working mid mission.
My point being that the second Anakin left Tattooine, no one who knew him probably ever heard about him again. Hell, in the original Star Wars movie they made it seem like Vader himself wasn’t even well known to the common people.
I thought the issue is that wireless transmission can only go the speed of light, which is incredibly slow on galactic scales. Interstellar communication generally relies on ships transporting that data through hyperspace.
Could be true, but they have hologram communicators that work on an interstellar scale in real time. Technology is just weirdly lopsided in general there, I like it.
This is the current (and best imo) 'retconned' explanation. It's been the one the series has kinda quietly operated under for a while, and when you have the rest of the tech in the plot play along with the paradigm, it works well.
I know Star Wars Outlaws got a lot of (deserved) flak, but the way the technology worked in the background of the setting was a master class in utilizing this paradigm.
Basically, the Wild West spirit has always been a part of SW. They literally operate under 'The Pony Express' rules as it comes to information dissemination, to spread the news out to all the disparate
homesteadsplanets out in the big expansiveprairespace.Yeah, thinking about it, there’s a lot of examples of interstellar wireless communication, though it seems very limited, spotty, and often traceable (which is why the Rebellion is always delivering by hand).
Couldn't you just send only light/information through hyperspace?
Canonically, physics works differently in hyperspace, so idk.
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