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[Star Wars] How much and how fast has starship technology improved since the dawn of the Old Republic?

I mean, in 25,000 BBY we see people flying starships, and all the way up to the New Republic era the starships seem to be exactly the same as far as capability.

So if I were flying around in the New Republic era in a reconstructed ship based on a design dating back 250 centuries, would anyone think twice about it?
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It's advanced pretty far all things considered. Original hyperdrives were powered either by the force or used gravity in some way. Most of the galaxy was mapped and discovered relatively recently in galactic history. There's been hundreds if not thousands of wars that have retarded or even reversed galactic progress as warlords and sith and calamities befell the galaxy throughout it's history. In legends it was only really after the new sith wars 1000 years ago that the galaxy saw any lasting peace long enough to map hyperlanes and find newer and faster technology that wasn't wiped out. In canon it's a little more vague but implied to be in the last 200 years or so. But to put it in context the old republic used wind and sail and steam powered ships to the high republics nuclear powered ships. To us the time difference between technology leaps is a snails pace but to them its a steady increase despite nearly everything being reset every generation or two by a war.