Yeah, the only war pilot the majority of people know in real life is theRed Baron, and most of those peoplr probably only know him by his catchy nickname. In a galaxy with trillions or quadrillons of beings I wouldn’t be too worried at people not knowing him off the top of their head. If you want to play off that, give him a catchy title for people to remember and forget his name, or have a Peter Quill / Starlord deal for the laughs.

I quite like the idea of melee combat and blasters being unwieldy but I can’t say I can see a tech change like that proliferating so widely across the galaxy in just four or five decades. I mean, I guess it could work well if done right, I’d like to see it tried.

I very much like the idea of Jedi not believing in a Light Side and a Dark Side, I’d almost want to try to work it into my own trilogy. I can see Yoda being a weirdo fringe Jedi who espouses this Dark Side nonsense to his apprentice Obi-Wan but is ignored because Obi Wan believes theJedi party line. Until first hand experience changes his mind.