What could a scientist in my Star Wars RPG be researching?

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Originally Posted by Irish Wolf

You're working in a universe that has hyperdrive, turbolasers, fighter-sized spaceships that make banking turns in vacuum, giant slug-worms that live in asteroids and generate an atmosphere in their intestines, and an order of knights that use the Force and laser swords. "A basis in real science" would seem almost a disqualifier here.

All those things are explained somewhow in the Expanded Universe and when I mean real science; I mean scientific ideas presented in a fictional way.