Star Wars Scifi

[Edric Vanyan]

So... i thought about this while eating a steak.... What would be considered Scifi in the Star wars universe? Think on it for a moment....

 

[Darth Carnifex]

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. It often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas".

~ Wikipedia

 

[Edric Vanyan]

I mean't actual scifi themes, like for us it is cloning, space travel, AI's

All these exist in Star Wars, so what would be Science Fiction to them.

 

[Darth Carnifex]

Oh.

Idk.

 

[Garik Reed]

Selfies.

 

[latindoge]

In a literal sense, Sci-Fi novels or the like in the SW-verse likely revolves around expansion of what's possible through the force into the unknown (is my guess). Similarly, in 'our world', we take what we know of through science and expand upon it, making connections to what would otherwise be impossible had it not been for a singular 'unknown' assumed true. An example would be pyrokinesis. Assuming the force is existent, one could influence molecules into a rapid vibration, eventually achieving combustion. Considering such an unknown but accepted concept exists in our world as well (e.g 'mass'. Why does mass exist, from where did mass come from and originate), in which we simply take it as a given law of the universe and make sense of what we can, in the SW-verse likewise is what would probably occur. To that extent, I'd say SW Sci-Fi is probably Fantasy. For example, some sort of 'magic' that allows the literal breaking and surpassing of universal laws. I am not well-acquainted with the Star Wars universe, but as far as I am aware, one cannot simply create energy and mass from nothing. One cannot conjure conjure blasts of tangible, physical balls of energy from their palm that break down and disintegrate whatever they touch. One cannot tame a sentient, organic flying rug from the depths of a dungeon beneath the sand which houses a magical genie that can grant nigh any wish with whimsical ease.

Just as likely, there might be some sort of sci-fi more centred around a singular group or race, in which some of their limitations prevent them from accomplishing something, whereas those of another race or species can. For example, the breeding of a Yuuzhan Vong and human who fulfills some sort of prophecy determined by the mythological god Minerva, destined to take grasp of all the planets of the galaxy to destroy the world-egg and escape the supposed confinements of physical form.

Really just anything impossible, but loosely explainable through science if one adds a non-existent element to their fictional world (such as 'the Force', except not the force since they have that, I guess :| ).

 

[Reverance]

Hybrids between...wait for it...4 species. And one of them isn't a near-human...too soon?

 

[Cobalt]

Hmm… We already have Super-Saiyans...

Maybe Pokemon?

 

[Jaxton Ravos]

Science fiction to people in star wars? Teleportation, perpetual motion, generational/controlled evolution, artificial planets, extragalactic incursions beyond "Otherspace" or the Vong Galaxy, alternative universes, artificial generation/manipulation of the Force, etc. Some of the stuff has admittedly been achieved by say Rakata, Celestials, Kwa, etc. but aren't known to people in the galaxy from an IC perspective.

 

[Via Dolorosa]

I think sci-fi for them would be shows like Lost. That show never made sense and I nearly divorced my husband for making me watch it...to the end.