> > Pliff"If Star Wars is sci-fi, meaning it could happen later on, then why does it begin with 'A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away'?"ilif
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> I heard an interesting speculation about that. It makes more sense that Star Wars take place in the future than the past -- but what if it does? The speaker of the line "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" is not identified, which means it could be spoken by a hypothetical narrator far in the future -- for which "Star Wars" IS historical. Yet relative to US, it may still be the future.

I always understood the "in a galaxy far away" part to mean that the events of Lucas' saga took place in their civilization some thousands, if not millions of years ago relative to our time.
We only learned about their struggle when the "Star Wars historical documentary" (an audio-visual transmission from that galaxy) finally hit our planet in 1977, after travelling all this time from There to Here at the speed of light. LOL!

Wolf "Lucas adulterated the original script by leaving out the Touch, Taste, and Olfactory-sense aspects of the galactic transmission" spirit