: I mean if you're telling a story about an ages-old galactic-scale
: civilization that hasn't been stable the whole time since it reached that
: scale, there are going to be battles, most likely big ones that are in
: space, and some of those will change the face of the galaxy, to where Star
: Wars after that point would not be what it is without those massive space
: battles. I know, it's stretching meanings and connotations a bit... but am
: I wrong?

You're talking about if one were to remove space battles completely from Star Wars. I'm pretty sure Griz's point, and mine, were you can have fantastic stories set in the Star Wars universe that don't involve a single instance of fleet on fleet combat.