ComStar just decides to hoard it

@leavethisbotnet that was in ancient times

youre acting like it was the only library in existence

@Flavius Stilicho 5 heavily guarded planets, mind you

by the time of its misfortunes it wasnt even that big a deal

rome had shit tons of libraries

it took the Rebels months to take over the Empire's main shipyard

alexandria didnt hoard its stuff you know

stuff gets copied by scribes

and they only won because the Empire pussied out and surrended

put in new libraries

all around the mediterranean

even tho they could have easily waited out the Rebels

and the Empire was doing pretty good, too

decentralized storing means virtually nothing is lost when any one library burns

Kuat was REALLY armored

B-Wing bombers didn't do shit to the armor

and the alexandrian library took multiple hits as well

it wasnt one single sdden destruction

yeah, of course. It's more of a breaking point
Point is, lot of knowledge of history was lost

and then they used AT-ATs against starfighters

barely any knowledge of history was lost

through all of the middle ages

and goddamn, they stomped the rebels hard

You can't know that

barely anything was lost

because it's fucking lost

even if people didnt entertain it

the roman empire

which lived through the middle ages

kept pretty much everything in tact

monostaries

kept lots o things

and the more prosperous cities in italy and france did well in that regard as well

The point of being lost is, it doesn't exist
so you can't know what it was exactly that was lost

but thats also history youre postulating

and not some real technology

in which physical objects still exist

Technology was invented, lost and reinvented in many instances

but 40k and battletech postulate universes where even simple reverse engineering is impossible

its silly really