What can a scientist in my Star Wars fan fic be working on?

[Maximum7]

I'm trying to write an RPG profile about a scientist who is working on something in the era of the New Republic. He does not believe in the Force in the way he doesn’t think it controls fate. (He acknowledges, however, that there is an energy field that some sentients can manipulate) I just need something for him to be researching. It just has to sound cool and scientific. It can NOT be game-changing or something that can alter the story in a dramatic way Also it can’t have already been done in Legends or Canon. I want a fresh idea.

It cannot be

-A time machine

-A teleporter

-A matter replicator

-A singularity Weapon

-Any type of droid

-Anything to do with holograms

-A food synthesizer

-Anything to do with the Force or Midi-chlorians

-A shrink ray

-A freeze ray

-pico and femtotechnology

-A Dyson sphere or any type of megastructure.

-Liquid metal armor or a nano morph

-Any improvements on the hyperdrive

-Limb regeneration

-Hyperspace nullifier

-Holodeck

Knowledge Transfer (Instant learning like in the Matrix)
-Philosophers Stone

-Kinetic weapons

-Solar sail

-Anything to do with kyber crystals

-Gene editing

-Mech suit

-Exosuit

-Gender change

In canon, during the Empire, scientists were researching methods to control droids, lasers that can punch through deflector shields and ship scale disintegrators. These ideas are therefore taken.
My scientist is called upon by the New Republic to investigate why the supermassive black hole is more active than usual and sucking in things from a further range. I just need something for the scientist to be studying before he is called away. It has to sound fresh and cool.
I’m looking not for a gadget or piece of tech. I’ve decided everything technological that we can think of, can be done. Speeders with deflector shields? Sure. We haven’t seen them but they can easily be done. I’m looking for something that would still be an emerging field of science. Something a Type II/III civilization would do next. Any ideas?

[Ben Kenobi]

Perhaps a way to synthesize new bacta strains. Being that Thyferra is the #1 producer of the healing substance and due to the Galaxies' penchant for destruction on massive, sometimes world popping, scales. Would having another source of bacta be wise? Granted there is the lesser versions such as kolto but I'm saying something just as potent as bacta but without having to dilute the substance.


Another option. Perhaps a new means of modernizing astrogation. Currently space travel is relegated in large part to the space lanes. Plotting new courses through the stars is expensive and extremely time consuming. Your scientist could concentrate on smaller scale routes and refine the arts of mapping swifter and safer paths between star systems.

[Jom Etro]

Perhaps your scientist could be looking into reducing heat build up in blasters.

Alternatively, they could be looking to make a plasma magazine that can fire more shots than normal?

[Dastan Imatari]

What sort of scientist is this character?
Mechanical Engineer-y, or something more in the medical field? Are they more the research type, or the lab tech type? Biology? Chemistry?

Maybe they are involved in preliminary theories about reshaping or modifying planetary ecologies to make them habitable- like terraforming planets. I'm certainly no expert, but I'm not sure that's something I've seen in a star wars movie.

[Kell Sangros]

Or maybe he is trying to make a cloaking device more compact as quoted in ESB "No ship that small has a cloaking device" aka the Millennum Falcon

[Maximum7]

What sort of scientist is this character?
Mechanical Engineer-y, or something more in the medical field? Are they more the research type, or the lab tech type? Biology? Chemistry?

Maybe they are involved in preliminary theories about reshaping or modifying planetary ecologies to make them habitable- like terraforming planets. I'm certainly no expert, but I'm not sure that's something I've seen in a star wars movie.

Mechanical Engineer-y. He prefers lab work and I love chemistry so yes that’s a possible venue.

[Maximum7]

Ok my scientist is studying sub-Hyperspace, the dimension in which quintessence can be turned into Phantom Energy and then travel to destroy star systems in real time. This is how Starkiller Base fires it’s weapon after draining a sun. (I’m sure Disney will explore it more in due time). However, in the mean time; I wonder what other things my scientist can study about it. Applications I’ve considered would be a sub-hyperdrive which would allow for instantaneous travel like Star Trek: Discovery’s Spore Drive. It also could be used for instant communications. Good stuff but too much of a gamechanger to tinker with. What else could my scientist be studying about sub-hyperspace?