My issue is not with the technology not advancing, sketchy as it is you can retcon that. But smugglers are all good? and bounty hunters are all evil? If anything, BHs side themselves with established goverments so should be republic. Vader employs BHs in the films because the Empire is the established government. Smugglers work against established governements so should be empire aligned. Why does the trooper in the cinematic trailer look like a jango clone trooper. Why does the smuggler get a Wookiee companion. Hutt crimelords have a habit of freezing enemies in carbonite? No - Han was frozen because he happened to be on Bespin where they had a carbon freezing chamber, it wasnt even commonplace in the films. Most of the imperial missions ive done refer to the enemy as REBELS. There are loads more... The issue here for me is that this feels more like a reboot than part of a cannonical universe in an established timeline. Yes yes, the game is fun, but I wanted an EXPANDED universe, not a re-hashed one!