Is their anything to suggest their is smaller than nanotech in Star Wars?

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Phantasm

Sometimes, you have to alter the canon just to keep things making sense, tossing out stuff that doesn't.

Old Canon also had cases where authors who got permission to write a Star Wars novel seemed to just used their own unfinished novel and slapped Star Wars characters into it (Crystal Star being the worst offender I know of), and dueling canon (the long-running feud between the Jedi and Mandalorian factions of authors).