Because almost everything in Star Wars is an epic opera scaled caricature. It's not a setting that people sat down and really thought about very much.

"Kid, it's not that kind of movie. If they notice your hair we're all in big trouble."

-Mark Hamill mimicking Harrison Ford

Tanaka's setting is a generalization, but only in the sense that it's the Napoleonic Wars in space. Once you understand that, you start to see parallels everywhere and you realize all he's really done is taken history, rearranged a few things, replaced some names and added spaceships.

Because almost everything in Star Wars is an epic opera scaled caricature. It's not a setting that people sat down and really thought about very much.

"Kid, it's not that kind of movie. If they notice your hair we're all in big trouble." -Mark Hamill mimicking Harrison Ford

Tanaka's setting is a generalization, but only in the sense that it's the Napoleonic Wars in space. Once you understand that, you start to see parallels everywhere and you realize all he's really done is taken history, rearranged a few things, replaced some names and added spaceships.

Because almost everything in Star Wars is an epic opera scaled caricature. It's not a setting that people sat down and really thought about very much.

Tanaka's setting is a generalization, but only in the sense that it's the Napoleonic Wars in space. Once you understand that, you start to see parallels everywhere and you realize all he's really done is taken history, rearranged a few things, replaced some names and added spaceships.