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Making it so a writer would have to tag the overarching theme first, and then providing the opportunity for additional, subtheme specific tags, could be an idea. Of course, that would likely lead to fics having more tags than they do now, but would allow readers to both broaden and narrow their...
Las unironically ending up as the leader of the Imperial Remnant does seem like the best timeline, ATM. That said, I don't expect everything to go the same way as canon, so Las' future may be more interesting than I can guess at right now.
Good chapter.
SW's tech level is where it is for the same reason Cyberpunk's is a certain way: the creativity of the original writer(s). It was written half a century ago, and the vision of GL and the book/RPG/comic writers since then worked with what they could conceive of being in universe...