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[Star Wars] What is the galaxy currently like?

So, we know these events occur a long time ago, but what are things like now, equivalent to the earth year 2015? Is the galaxy destroyed, is it way more advanced now, or is it much of the same?
gpt
It's a very difficult question to answer, since "A long time ago" can be any time at all. It could be hundreds of years ago, or it could be billions of years ago. 

if it were hundreds of years ago, the technology wouldn't have improved that much. Thousands of years had passed since the Great Galactic War and the Galactic Civil War and technology hadn't improved much. 

If it were billions, quite a few of the planets we know of would likely be uninhabitable because the suns they orbit would have either burned out or gone supernova and incinerated the planets.