There’s something interesting in the Star Wars aesthetic about engineering and highly ordered environments as a scarce, concentrated resource. I wonder if this would be a real emergent property of internationalization being constrained by an empire spread across the far flung corners of the galaxy and/or very sparsely inhabited planets.

Maybe this leads to economies of scale breaking down too. I wish more people in-universe bitched about the price of interstellar transit. I think that would help the setting make a lot more sense. Regarding the economies of scale bit I think this would go some of the way towards explaining why SW setting has such tremendous progress in the world of atoms and such little progress in the world of bits.