What can an engineer in my Star Wars fan fic be working on?

[Maximum7]

I was asking for ideas on what a scientist could be working on in the Star Wars galaxy. However my list of can nots are more akin to what an engineer would be working on. Then I guess that’s what I really meant. So that being said I ask. What can an engineer in the Star Wars galaxy be working on?. He works for the canon New Republic.

Things he can’t be working on

1.) Dyson sphere- Believe it or not it already exists in SWTOR

2.) Matrioksha Brain- Computers aren’t that advanced. (HOWEVER, if you have a genetic Star Wars name for this- I will take it. Matrioksha is Russian nesting dolls and would obviously not be applicable for Star Wars

3.) A Giant Underground City- Sullust has tons of these.

4.) Kransnikov Tube- Would be too much of a gamechanger for travel

5.) Ford-Svaitar mirror- Too much of a gamechanger for travel

6.) Nicoll-Dyson Laser- We already have the Death Star and Starkiller Base

7.) Space elevator- They have those

8.) Shellworld- Waste of time. Plenty of planets to work with

9) Alderton Disk- Too big

10.) Ringworld- Exists on Ringo Vinda

11.) Underwater cities- Plenty of those

12.) Any type of space habitat.

Any ideas?

 

[Harley Fenstermacher]

If your character is apart of the New Republic as you say the last one a space habitat would be ideal due to recent actions taking place in story as their is a need for housing for displaced people due to recent conflict, though that is just my opinion. [member="Maximum7"]

 

[Mauda]

[member="Maximum7"]

Although several of your items already exist, there's no reason he can't be working to improve one of them.

Engines in Star Wars are already at their peak. But these are all Ion Engines. Noticing the lack of Engine Manufacturing here I decided to start producing my own engines that use "Gamma-Ray Plasma" from Antimatter Annihilation instead of excited Ions.

Your Dyson Sphere could be one. It was only used once and that was on Iokath. No reason an engineer can't be working on a more commercially-viable one

 

[Maximum7]

Nobody has any other ideas?