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Um-because planets are, essentially, free what with the bloody things already being there while artificial planetoids cost money? Besides, a couple dozen thousand years of being used to living on planets can do strange things to the way people behave.
One wonders why they live on barely habitable backwater shitholes like Tattooine, though. Perhaps however cheap space technology is in the Wars galaxy, it nevertheless is not QUITE cheaper than living in an already existing biosphere (however shitty).

There is one simple reason for lack of visible advance in the Republic - lack of centralization. No corporation can put tech support on every planet, so it's forced to build things cheap and reliable, something that doesn't break. People prefer cheap, reliable, time tested designs. No drive for progress - lack of global wars, lack of need for something a lot better, a tolerable, peaceful life. The empire doesn't have those problems, so it does its best to advance.

Omeganian wrote:There is one simple reason for lack of visible advance in the Republic - lack of centralization. No corporation can put tech support on every planet, so it's forced to build things cheap and reliable, something that doesn't break. People prefer cheap, reliable, time tested designs. No drive for progress - lack of global wars, lack of need for something a lot better, a tolerable, peaceful life. The empire doesn't have those problems, so it does its best to advance.

The term 'garbage' comes to mind. Yes, military technology has a tendency to advance faster in times of war but there have been plenty of technological advances made in times of peace. Electricity, the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, powered flight, ICs...
As for the lack of centralization, we all know how well the idea of the command economy worked out for the countries using it...

Batman wrote: The term 'garbage' comes to mind. Yes, military technology has a tendency to advance faster in times of war but there have been plenty of technological advances made in times of peace. Electricity, the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, powered flight, ICs...
As for the lack of centralization, we all know how well the idea of the command economy worked out for the countries using it...

Command economies have their efficiencies for given circumstances (e.g, warfighting), much as decentralized ones have theirs (eg., consumer goods), so how effect the different approaches are used can be impacted by the balance of timing and circumstances.