Basic Idea
Okay, hear me out. What if certain Star Wars technologies suddenly stop working for no reason whatsoever during the Clone Wars? Things like blasters, deflector shields, repulsorlifts, heck, even hyperdrives. Although I would just make them more unreliable, & can't be used on starfighters or ships smaller than the Millennium Falcon & eventually can cause some very strange effects, mainly relating to creating bizarre forms of life- examples would include crystalline life forms, gelatinous liquid life forms, gaseous life forms, plasma-based life forms, life based around living sound, life forms entirely made up of radiation & other strange forms of life that would break the laws of biology & physics. Heck, even completely inanimate objects or digital code could come to life & operate like any biological organism.
Another thing this new event would do is make droids alive in a way. They can be sensed in the Force, but their presence is less noticeable, more easily hidden & in some cases can basically act as Brown Note flashbangs that constantly go on & on for Force-sensitives.
Droids would also develop various qualities that would make them basically mechanical life. The ability to slowly heal damage like organic life, the ability to adapt & evolve (as in natural evolution), & even reproduce like organic life. Another thing is that these living droids would be immune to restraining bolts & they would be virtually impossible to memory wipe, program restrictions & reprogram. An extremely important thing to note would be that any droid made after the galaxy-wide unknown event that has some form of self-awareness & emotions would become living droids. No exceptions. Even if it was made of wood, had only the most basic of droid brains with the majority of its programming being restrictions, if it had some vague tiny spark of self-awareness, it'll become a living droid.
Now, all of this would cause absolute chaos. The Droid Army will have entire mass desertions because all of their cheap & disposable droids now have much stronger self-preservation & they can't be easily controlled en masse. The only vehicles that work are legged vehicles & wheeled vehicles. Any repulsor-based vehicles would be completely useless. Same goes for blasters, removing the main infantry weapon for the entire galaxy. The Clone Wars might even stop because there's simply too much chaos, but there'll still be conflict. After all, we're talking about all of galactic civilization losing various key technologies.
The less technologically adept people will assume that melee combat will become the mainstay now that blasters can't be used, but others will notice the various other non-blaster ranged weapons, like slugthrowers, Wookiee bowcasters, Geonosian sonic weapons & many others. Not to mention, various alternatives to repulsorlifts will be invented, along with new hyperdrives that use different methods that increase the efficiency of the now unreliable hyperdrive, maybe huge amounts of focus will be put into alternative forms of faster than light travel. Since droids can no longer be easily controlled, simpler automatons will replace them as mechanized labor, it will probably take a long while for there to be a droid replacement that lacks self-awareness & is still effective to be made, but it's inevitable for the galaxy to rely on alternative forms of technology that they lost. The people of the galaxy might develop alternative forms of technology for tech that wasn't rendered useless because they're paranoid that the event might happen again. If it happened once, it can happen twice.
Also, nobody knows what caused the event & no one predicted it. Not the Jedi, not Palpatine, no one.
So please put down your thoughts on this, if you don't like this idea & want to tell me how it sucks, don't, just don't. This is just a fun thought experiment that I thought would be interesting.
Another thing this new event would do is make droids alive in a way. They can be sensed in the Force, but their presence is less noticeable, more easily hidden & in some cases can basically act as Brown Note flashbangs that constantly go on & on for Force-sensitives.
Droids would also develop various qualities that would make them basically mechanical life. The ability to slowly heal damage like organic life, the ability to adapt & evolve (as in natural evolution), & even reproduce like organic life. Another thing is that these living droids would be immune to restraining bolts & they would be virtually impossible to memory wipe, program restrictions & reprogram. An extremely important thing to note would be that any droid made after the galaxy-wide unknown event that has some form of self-awareness & emotions would become living droids. No exceptions. Even if it was made of wood, had only the most basic of droid brains with the majority of its programming being restrictions, if it had some vague tiny spark of self-awareness, it'll become a living droid.
Now, all of this would cause absolute chaos. The Droid Army will have entire mass desertions because all of their cheap & disposable droids now have much stronger self-preservation & they can't be easily controlled en masse. The only vehicles that work are legged vehicles & wheeled vehicles. Any repulsor-based vehicles would be completely useless. Same goes for blasters, removing the main infantry weapon for the entire galaxy. The Clone Wars might even stop because there's simply too much chaos, but there'll still be conflict. After all, we're talking about all of galactic civilization losing various key technologies.
The less technologically adept people will assume that melee combat will become the mainstay now that blasters can't be used, but others will notice the various other non-blaster ranged weapons, like slugthrowers, Wookiee bowcasters, Geonosian sonic weapons & many others. Not to mention, various alternatives to repulsorlifts will be invented, along with new hyperdrives that use different methods that increase the efficiency of the now unreliable hyperdrive, maybe huge amounts of focus will be put into alternative forms of faster than light travel. Since droids can no longer be easily controlled, simpler automatons will replace them as mechanized labor, it will probably take a long while for there to be a droid replacement that lacks self-awareness & is still effective to be made, but it's inevitable for the galaxy to rely on alternative forms of technology that they lost. The people of the galaxy might develop alternative forms of technology for tech that wasn't rendered useless because they're paranoid that the event might happen again. If it happened once, it can happen twice.
Also, nobody knows what caused the event & no one predicted it. Not the Jedi, not Palpatine, no one.
So please put down your thoughts on this, if you don't like this idea & want to tell me how it sucks, don't, just don't. This is just a fun thought experiment that I thought would be interesting.
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