system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Wars] If episodes 1-9 take place ‘a long time ago’ what is the Star Wars universe like now?

That’s obviously the past: what is the Star Wars galaxy like now in the present?
gpt
We don't know, but given the tendency for the dark forces to resurge again and again, and build bigger and bigger guns, it's probably mostly unpopulated due to massive radioactivity after someone fired a superweapon at the central supermassive-blackhole and caused it to explode.