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

[Maximum7]

Im trying to write a story about a scientist who is working on something in the era of the New Republic. He does not believe in the Force. I just need something for him to be researching. It really isn’t that important to the story; it just has to sound cool and scientific. 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
Improvements on deflector shields
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 disintigrators. These ideas are therefore taken.

 

[Gir Quee]

[member="Maximum7"], it sounds like a field of study may offer some more interesting ideas. Here are some possible fields that are broad enough to contain multiple ideas to work on with practical applications, yet are specific enough that it should give people a practical idea of what he works with regularly:

Artificial intelligence, hyperspatial technology, anti-gravity technology, terraforming, cloning, biotechnology.

EDIT: I've moved this to the feedback forum because the open roleplaying section is for actual in-character roleplays.