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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
Star Wars is Space Opera, yet has big strong primitives aka Wookies.
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Star Wars can't be reasonably rendered as TL11, doesn't care about balancing races, and barely makes any pretense of having combat run on realistic rules.
That said, it's certainly the case that at the very space opera, not so much science fiction end of the scale big strong primitives
are fairly common and often not just there to be chopped to bits by automatic weapons. However, for that sort of fiction you need some combination of cinematic rules switches and a tech base that
looks shiny but doesn't work like any sort of remotely plausible ultratech.