• @Telodzrum
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    2 months ago

    But very few people would ever get to see Jedis use force powers. They might see them brandish a lightsaber

    Approximately 10,000 Jedi were in the Order at the start of the Clone Wars. At that time the galaxy was home to over one hundred quintillion (100,000,000,000,000,000,000) sapient beings. Almost no one ever saw a Jedi during their lives.

    • teft
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      62 months ago

      Imagine you think you see a jedi and you find out it’s just a Nightsister…

    • Neato
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      52 months ago

      At that time the galaxy was home to over one hundred quintillion (100,000,000,000,000,000,000) sapient beings.

      That…seems like too many. Earth will probably cap around 10B people. That’s 10B planets with Earth-like populations. A search says Coruscant has 1T people on it, so that’d be 100M Coruscants. But I have to assume Coruscant is on the outer edge of population densities. Most would probably be lightly colonized like most of the world we see in the movies.

      But then Star Wars is well known for just being waay out there will numbers and not being even close to realistic. :p

      • @Telodzrum
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        62 months ago

        Honestly, it may not be enough. People, including sci-fi writers, chronically misunderstand the scale of space and how populations could fill in that space in a true galaxy-wide civilization.

        Estimates place the number of stars in the Milky Way at 100 billion. This would work out to 10 billion lives per star in the galaxy. That doesn’t seem unreasonable, when we know that ecumenopoli exist and smaller versions of them exist in much larger numbers. We also know that terraforming of otherwise non-hospitable worlds is readily achieved in the SW universe. On top of that there are 5-25 million different species of sapient life, bringing even more classes of planets into this calculation.

      • Ech
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        52 months ago

        Space is big, bruh. I’m not sure if there’s a source on the size of the SW galaxy, but for the milky way, it’s estimated to have upwards of 400 billion stars. Assuming most of those have planets, that’s plenty of worlds for life given a galactic ecosystem like SW’s.