On what basis do you say that they're outside our light cone? Leaving aside that they can break light cones, >
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @DataSnake
> there's absolutely nothing that says they can't be in any one of the many spiral galaxies in our light cone.
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It's actually a vague concern of mine that Abrams et al want to address this and are going to pull an nBSG ending (bleh)
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the series takes place "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away". Even the closest galaxy to us is 2.5 million lightyears...
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Replying to @DataSnake @BootlegGirl
...away, and humans only evolved 200,000 years ago. And while hyperdrive can break lightspeed, there's no indication that it...
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...can do so by enough to cross the incredible distance between galaxies, or that it can maintain top speed for decades on...
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...end without maintenance or refueling.
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Also the wiki says humans were already in the star wars galaxy when they developed hyperdrive, so they can't have gotten...
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I was fearing that canon would eventually go with the other direction, ending Ep. 9 with the Falcon crashing on Earth or whatev
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In all seriousness the Star Wars setting shouldn't be taken to be more than a story conceit
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And we should still probably assume humans are like real humans until proven otherwise just like in any other fantasy setting
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There's an old abandoned EU project that would've stitched all of Lucas' franchises together
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