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[Star Wars] With all that abundant energy, why isn't the Star Wars universe a technological utopia?

I've looked up the specs for Boba Fett's *Slave I* - a fairly small, one-person ship - and it looks like its reactor is rated for a power output of 7 *billion* GW. 

For comparison, the Earth's total energy consumption in 2008 was just short of 150 million GWh. If we had 7 billion GW of free energy to play with, we could terraform the deserts, provide free food and drinking water for everyone, and basically loaf around and enjoy our lives.

So why is the Star Wars universe so *medieval*?
gpt
Because the star wars universe is spread out over an entire galaxy. There's planets like Coruscant where the cities reach to the edge of space and everybody's driving flying cars around. There's place like Endor, a moon inhabited by a bunch of savages who never even knew there's other life in the galaxy.

The star wars galaxy is massive. Wealth and progress isn't spread equally for the same reason it's not spread equally on earth right now. Culture, greed, interests, conflicts of interest and so on. It's not impossible it just takes a lot of effort that not everybody feels like taking.

A lot of the more backward planets you see in star wars are in the outer rim of the galaxy or other remote places. Nobody has any interest in visiting those places, let alone bringing them the light of civilisation so to speak.

Other places are primitive for other reasons. The Hutt crime empire for instance loves their backwater worlds where they can become a law unto itself. The Hutts control everything and they couldn't do that if everybody had limitless energy, resources and transportation for instance.

Nar Shaddaa is a lawless hellhole of an urban planet for the same reason the Taliban hide in caves. The whole planet is one big criminal safe house. You can hide your operations on Nar Shaddaa *because* it doesn't have a super efficient government and law enforcement that'll detect your dirty business as soon as it happens.

Star Wars is also the universe where Kaminoans clone armies of custom soldiers and Ithorians fly lush green gardens around space.