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[Star Wars] Why does technology remain the same across eras?

I'm currently reading the Dawn Of The Jedi series and I notciced that aside from the characters and ideals all the stuff they use is effectively the same as it always is. The tech in this era is almost indistinguishable from more recent eras. Why is technological movement so stagnant.
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You have to take into account just how *long* the galaxy has had sapient life in it. The Gree civilization was thriving around 300,000 BBY, Coruscant was covered in city by 100,000 BBY. Even interstellar travel was developed around *1,000,000 BBY*.

There has been advanced technology in the galaxy for hundreds of thousands of years, which each civilization building off of the previous, again and again. At a certain point there isn't anything left to research, and even if you did, it's being rediscovered because another race had probably already known about it hundreds of thousands of years ago.

For comparison, the Force was only discovered by the modern(ish) galactic races 30,000 years ago. Look at early lightsabers, developed around 15,000 BBY. They were bulky and ludicrously power heavy. Now current lightsaber models are refined, but even those were only adopted not even 5000 years before the Battle of Yavin. In another 100,000 years who knows what Lightsabers will look like? They could be similar because the design is good enough already or they could be completely different.