This is my first foray into the time period of the Old Republic. I couldn’t stop thinking about how technology in the Star Wars universe hasn’t evolved much from this time, 5000 years before “A New Hope”. Hyperdrive, lightsabers, holograms, and blasters all seem to exist at this time. How could civilization be so stagnant for 5000 years that there haven’t been many advances? I may be missing pieces of the puzzle.