No, I’m trying to figure out why people put George’s made up genre higher than established genres. Why people are stuck on a definition for all SF that only applies to hard SF. For me to ever apply the word fantasy to it, someone is going to have to find something about it that is uniquely fantasy and not found in SF. So far no one has managed to point out a single thing that is not commonly found in science fiction.
The proper term for what Jedi do is psychokinesis. It is labeled psudoscience, not magic and is common to SF. It is not really something found in fantasy without referencing spells, wands, or a talisman. Lucas based Star Wars on Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, both science fiction. You don’t have to go very far in science fiction before you encounter force-like powers (I have given many many examples).
Star Wars specifically belongs to the Space Opera subgenre and here is what Wikipedia has to say about it:
Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, and risk-taking. Set mainly or entirely in outer space, it usually involves conflict between opponents possessing advanced abilities, futuristic weapons, and other sophisticated technology. The term has no relation to music, but is instead a play on the terms “soap opera” and “horse opera”, the latter of which was coined during the 1930s to indicate clichéd and formulaic Western movies. Space operas emerged in the 1930s and continue to be produced in literature, film, comics, television and video games.
An early film which was based on space opera comic strips was Flash Gordon (1936) created by Alex Raymond. In the late 1970s, the Star Wars franchise (1977–present) created by George Lucas brought a great deal of attention to the subgenre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera