I dunno about all that but as far as RLM goes they just aren't that into Star Wars since they are a bunch of old trekkies. Trekkies often tended to look down on Star Wars fans back in the day and RLM never dropped that habit. And since they are so uninitiated, the prequels just looks like Flash Gordan went off the rails rather than Lucas further developing the setting that the fans have been obsessively analyzing for years.

Mike never played Kotor2 or read the Thrawn trilogy like we all did. To him it's just the fun silly space movies that aren't as serious or thought out as Star Trek.