Maybe he can be researching a strange microorganism that he found in the blood of some people but not others. Since he doesn't believe in the Force, he'd treat it as a scientific problem rather than a mystical one.
Oh, wait, you said no midichlorians. Well, since you've excluded everything relevant to the universe and, as was stated above
, the Star Wars universe is blatantly unscientific, then just make up anything you like.
Edited by Fighteer on Jan 26th 2019 at 7:16:17 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Okay, somehow I edited and it double posted instead. Whoopsie.
Edited by Fighteer on Jan 26th 2019 at 7:16:12 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!""I thought I had the laws of thermodynamics worked out in my lab, and then this Jedi guy named Luke stopped by for a visit. All the forces changed! The equations no longer held! Then he left, and it all went back as before! What is happening??"
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.I think that would fall under studying the Force. Since it is broadly accepted as a thing in the Star Wars 'verse, the idea that a scientist could not know about it would be rather odd. Equally odd is that it hasn't been measured, tested, and incorporated into actual physics and engineering. (Some accounts of how the Death Star works say that it uses Khyber crystals in its core, which means that Imperial scientists have figured out exactly this.)
Again, you just have to accept certain elements for the premise to work.
Maybe the scientist could get all meta and be studying how distances and travel times seem to constantly vary depending on how urgent the journey is and who's taking it.
Edited by Fighteer on Jan 28th 2019 at 2:07:32 PM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The thermal insulation properties of Ewok fur. For... reasons.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Does anybody have any other ideas? I’m trying to look for something that was never researched until the era of the New Republic like kyber crystals weren’t until the Empire used them for a superlaser and even then, they had been used in weapons formation in the past. I’m looking for something that presumably hasn’t been thought of in the 25,000 years of time where almost everything has already been done.
MaxI think that a galaxy-wide network of Internet-equivalent would be a serious game-changer in the Star Wars 'verse. But well, nihil sub sole novum. It's not super likely that there's anything that hasn't been thought up in 25,000 years by a galaxy of 100 quadrillion sentients, and we can't exactly comb the entire Legends corpus to make sure that the ideas haven't popped up there either.
One day, we will read his name in the news and cheer.It is interesting to note that scientists do occasionally pop up in Star Wars: besides the Kaminoans who came up with the advanced cloning procedures, you also have Dr, Nuvo Vindi from the Clone Wars, who was obsessed with creating bioweapons for the Seperatists. There was also one, I believe, in the old Jedi Apprentice novels who went after Qui Gon, but my knowledge of that series is fuzzy at best.
Edited by AzurePaladin on Feb 14th 2019 at 2:58:21 PM
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerI was down to 3 ideas. A Guided recirprocating deflector shield from someone on abovetopsecret forums, Synthetic coaxium from FFG forums and The Dynamics of an Asteroid Field on Sjgames. I decided against the shield because it was too wordy and could be a game changer. The coaxium I felt ruined the rarity of hyperfuel and the asteroid belt analyzation was good but their are likely billions of asteroid fields in the galaxy. Who the hell cares about plotting one.
MaxOkay so my archeology idea didn’t work. My scientist is called upon by the New Republic to investigate why the supermassive black hole is more active than usual and sucking in things from a further range. I just need something for the scientist to be studying before he is called away. It has to sound fresh and cool.
Max

I’m trying to write a story about a scientist who is working on something in the era of the New Republic. He does not believe in the Force. I just need something for him to be researching. It really isn’t that important to the story; it just has to sound cool and scientific. Also it can’t have already been done in Legends or Canon. I want a fresh idea.
It cannot be
A time machine A teleporter A matter replicator A singularity Weapon Any type of droid Anything to do with holograms A food synthesizer Anything to do with the Force or Midi-chlorians A shrink ray A freeze ray pico and femtotechnology A Dyson sphere or any type of megastructure. Liquid metal armor or a nano morph Any improvements on the hyperdrive Limb regeneration Hyperspace nullifier Holodeck Knowledge Transfer (Instant learning like in the Matrix) Philosophers Stone Kinetic weapons Solar sail Anything to do with kyber crystals Gene editing Improvements on deflector shields Mech suit Exosuit Gender change Anything to do with anti-aging In canon, during the Empire, scientists were researching methods to control droids, lasers that can punch through deflector shields and ship scale disintigrators. These ideas are therefore taken. Any ideas?
Max