Better weather control tech
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Re: Better weather control tech
I should think that Coruscant itself is all the proof that is needed which shows that the Republic and its Imperial successor both have access to highly advanced climate control devices that the Federation does not. The mere act of maintaining a totally urbanized world exposed to open atmosphere strongly hints at impressive terraforming abilities and complex control of weather beyond those available to the Federation or any of its contemporaries. Aside from one of a kind instruments such as the Genesis Device, which it may be argued could construct a city-world in a matter of minutes. As far as why we do not hear of weather-control devices being employed on other Republic/Imperial worlds...who is to say that they are not? That element has never been a central aspect to the Star Wars lore, whereas in Star Trek the nature of the show itself provides for more highlight on such technology.
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Re: Better weather control tech
It's where we run into the problem of what a culture should logically have, and what they don't. For instance, aside from Babylon 5 and Firefly, there aren't a lot of scifi shows that portray toilets, but we have to assume that Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, etc. still have them, because the main characters are human, and thus have the physiological need to excrete waste. On the other hand, with advanced technology, we run into cultures that may have developed one thing, but not another, because of a cultural difference, they never had the right conditions to develop it, their science went into a different direction, whatever. For instance, in the Star Trek universe, transporters are a huge technological development that is standard everywhere except for regions of the Delta Quadrant.
Star Wars is millenia ahead of Star Trek technologically in starships, FTL, shields, firepower, etc, but why do they not have this technology? It could be that they just never stumbled upon it, never needed it, or just couldn't get develop the proper science to develop it.
The same might very well be true for the Republic/Empire when it comes to weather control. They do have moisture vaporators on farms on Tatooine. For Coruscant, for all we know, they have entire city districts dedicated to nothing but food and oxygen production via garden arcologies that keep everything under control, as we are rather limited in what we see of the capital planet. Maybe it's even like Spaceballs, where there's a huge oxygen market that is constantly shipped to the planet to keep everyone there from choking. We have no proof, one way or the other, that they do have it. And if they do have such technology, it seems limited to Core worlds, and unlike the Federation, humans take priority in the Star Wars galaxy, and there are quite a few planets that do not seem to have the proper climate that would be ideal for humans, in which the humans are the majority of the population.
A solid case for it seems to be the rebuilding of Telos, but that was mostly a case of forcefields protecting an area, making that small area suitable by the shipping of ecology from other planets to the planet, and then slowly repeating the process again and again. A process that was heavily taxing and required major investment by the Republic, along with the construction of a major installation in orbit around the planet to house the workers of the people doing so that covered at least an eighth of the planet. The Rakata, from the Infinite Empire, were known to have terraforming, but their species and its technology were long gone. It could be that the Rakata did most of the terraforming and weather control before they were wiped out due to time, the plague and slave rebellions. The only other example of terraforming in the SW galaxy is by the Vong, who were aliens from outside the galaxy.
In comparison, the Federation seems to have much less cumbersome and more prevalent devices that require a crew of less than a dozen to change a planet, as shown in "Home Soil", and for already transformed worlds they have devices that monitor the planet and keep it stable, so as to not experience unexpected inclement weather, or transform it into what they desire. We haven't seen the Empire or the Republic demonstrate such capability.
Star Wars is millenia ahead of Star Trek technologically in starships, FTL, shields, firepower, etc, but why do they not have this technology? It could be that they just never stumbled upon it, never needed it, or just couldn't get develop the proper science to develop it.
The same might very well be true for the Republic/Empire when it comes to weather control. They do have moisture vaporators on farms on Tatooine. For Coruscant, for all we know, they have entire city districts dedicated to nothing but food and oxygen production via garden arcologies that keep everything under control, as we are rather limited in what we see of the capital planet. Maybe it's even like Spaceballs, where there's a huge oxygen market that is constantly shipped to the planet to keep everyone there from choking. We have no proof, one way or the other, that they do have it. And if they do have such technology, it seems limited to Core worlds, and unlike the Federation, humans take priority in the Star Wars galaxy, and there are quite a few planets that do not seem to have the proper climate that would be ideal for humans, in which the humans are the majority of the population.
A solid case for it seems to be the rebuilding of Telos, but that was mostly a case of forcefields protecting an area, making that small area suitable by the shipping of ecology from other planets to the planet, and then slowly repeating the process again and again. A process that was heavily taxing and required major investment by the Republic, along with the construction of a major installation in orbit around the planet to house the workers of the people doing so that covered at least an eighth of the planet. The Rakata, from the Infinite Empire, were known to have terraforming, but their species and its technology were long gone. It could be that the Rakata did most of the terraforming and weather control before they were wiped out due to time, the plague and slave rebellions. The only other example of terraforming in the SW galaxy is by the Vong, who were aliens from outside the galaxy.
In comparison, the Federation seems to have much less cumbersome and more prevalent devices that require a crew of less than a dozen to change a planet, as shown in "Home Soil", and for already transformed worlds they have devices that monitor the planet and keep it stable, so as to not experience unexpected inclement weather, or transform it into what they desire. We haven't seen the Empire or the Republic demonstrate such capability.
