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      One of my favorite bits of the Star Wars EU was when it established that the Rakatans invented (or stole) repulsor technology and all modern improvements to the designs are literally just miniaturization.

      The difference between a Rakatan repulsor vehicle and a “modern” repulsor is that they used large repulsors prone to failure and the modern versions are miniaturized arrays that can keep going if one coil fails, but it’s been that way for so long that the modern users literally forgot that you can just make a repulsor as big as you want, and the bigger it is the more power it can have.