

I’m not a big enough SW fan in general to spend my precious little reading time on SW comics and books.
Yeah, well, your first paragraph reads so impressed that I’m certain you haven’t read at least X-Wing books (all my favorite, Stackpole’s ones are sometimes too comfortable, Allston’s ones are sometimes cringe in technical and logical regards), the Thrawn trilogy (the part of the EU usually recommended first) and the Death Star (to compare the old and the new). I liked Andor, once again, and I would like it without Disney’s dark years, but those things were very good and deep too.
I’m sure there’s lots of merit in them, but not for me when there’s so much else to read in far more interesting universes.
To each their own.
Well. Imagine we’re talking 1920s, Trotsky, plants and steamers and autarky.
In this paradigm having plants able to assemble something is necessary. Even if on dotations.
Because you need plants that can be repurposed to, I dunno, assemble lots of FPV drones or something.
Also iPhones and such are too complex, but something useful they might be able to produce in the USA.