DuracellEnergizer said:
To be honest, I think Episode VII should be set close to a hundred years after ROTJ rather than a mere thirty. After all, shouldn't people who are part of an advanced interstellar civilization have a better quality of life than people in the real world? Shouldn't they age at a slower rate than we would?
So 100 years later it's all the same characters as if it was 30 years later.
Why make the change?