Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25356210-20150813213900/@comment-26863727-20150814170232

Rocket Engineer wrote: Well, the Prime Directive does make some sense. If you hand some primitive species a bunch of advanced technology, they will probably try and kill off a rival tribe or something similar. And another thing is that if a species gets all its technology from off-world, they might not feel the need to learn the scientific concepts that the technology uses. And that sort of thing often happens in the Star Wars galaxy when a new species is discovered, and they (almost) always turn out just fine! Sometimes they don't even USE the technology for years! (See: Ewoks, Amanaman) In fact, there's only one instance of PD-like treatment of a newly discovered species in the Star Wars galaxy, and that's the discovery of the Dresselians by the Bothans. Well, there is the Barabels too, but I don't count that because it was literally years before it was realized that they were sentient.