| That link to the Lucas forums made for an interesting read. I'm glad I'm not the only one to question it.
On the one hand, I can certainly understand the rise and fall of civilizatiosn and the potential for technology to be lost over time. We've certainly seen plenty of that on our own world.
But, much of that is due to the lack of effective storage of knowledge. I would think that would be much less of an issue wth thousands of inhabitable worlds and computerized data storage that it would be much harder for such knowledge to be lost.
Then again, there's a story, possibly and urban legend, that the reason we don't use Saturn V rockets anymore is because the plans for them have been lost/destroyed and they would essentially have to be reengineered from scratch. |