[Phantasm]

Nowadays, science is about studying the processes, not necessarily invention. The invention part is left to the engineers.

That said, there's a lot of processes in Star Wars that to date should not be able to be explained properly without Alien Space Bats. Case in point: the Maw, a black hole cluster in the Outer Rim of the Galaxy, consisting of close to a dozen black holes which has not collapsed in on itself to form a supermassive black hole. Its placement is also a mystery.

Yes, the later EU books (Fate of the Jedi nine-parter) put Sinkhole Station, built by the Killiks at the request of the Ancient Space Bats, in the center of the Maw keeping it stable... but that's not public knowledge!



There's also the possibility that they're still trying to figure out dark matter, dark energy, and what came before the Big Bang.


Senator Grebleips of the Green Planet delegation sent a survey ship to a nearby galaxy three million lightyears away (a straggler had to phone home to get picked up). Has it been heard from since it left the galaxy? Is it being tracked? CAN it be tracked through intergalactic hyperspace?



And of course, a scientific study of just what the Force is so that it can be harnessed by non-Sensitives .. . or destroyed, either of which would (theoretically) shift the balance of power away from Force-using religious orders and into [the rest of this deleted because it was sociopolitical propaganda the writer doesn't actually believe anyway].