Is it really such a leap to think that Sideous , the Jedi , and the PT Republic , who arguably have been living in a dark age for a very long time when Ep . 1 picks up , fetishize their fragmented understanding of what the Old Republic Erathe Sith , the Jedi , the idea of the Republicused to be like , versus what it is ? I think it is , especially when we know for a fact that , as of TPM , there had been 1000 years of peace in the galaxy , no sort of Dark Age is implied . It ' s far more than simply fetishizing things of the past . It ' s the technology , the ideologies , etc . at play in SWTOR and the KotOR games . They ' re very similarif not the same in many cases to the films . It makes no sense that 30004000 years ago the Jedi Order would be just as strict and rulebound as it was at the time of the Naboo Crisis and the Clone Wars . It just doesn ' t work out . Like , it ' s one thing to be like you said , fetishizing things of the past . It ' s another thing to make those things in the past exactly like the present version . It just makes it lazy