This is supposed to be a high tech society, but how fast information does, or doesn't, move around, and the quality of that information, has always been a problem in Star Wars. There's plenty of ways to just ignore it and talk around it.Harry Lime said:
Yeah, I mean for a rough analogy, imagine what the average European peasant would have known about the Knights Templar a generation after the French king suppressed them, let alone a merchant in, say, China.
- Maybe the guild has their own communication network, which is how word of Mando's little scuffle is seemingly known by everyone
- Maybe the empire controlled most of the communications previously, so they heavily censored information and when the empire fell the communication network fell also. So the only way to pass information outside the empire-net was word of mouth. Thus it's known to be unreliable and prone to 'legends.'
- Everyone is just super over cameras? (Despite being a faster-than-light-speed galaxy-wide society, only like three things in the history of Star Wars have ever been caught on camera)
But also, there is the fact that sometimes changes in power at the top don't really impact the people on the ground all that much, especially in non-core worlds.
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