What are the functional differences between bacta and kolto?

It’s never really explained how kolto works, unfortunately, so there’s no way to compare the specific mechanisms. The big functional difference we know of is that bacta works better than kolto (though it may have been the opposite at some time in galactic history), and that’s about it. Sorry!

~ Jacen

With hyperspace tracking and gravity wells, do you imagine they will come up with new defences for lightspeed travel and what could they do?

The funny thing about travelling in hyperspace is that, if you’re fast enough, you can overtake the ship you’re chasing and they won’t know it until they drop out again. With the ability to predict the course a ship or a fleet will take through hyperspace, anyone with a gravity well projector could theoretically not only pull it back into realspace, they could do it anywhere along the path, provided they can reach it first. I expect you could also reroute a ship equipped with a gravity well projector into the path, if your own ships weren’t fast enough. If the First Order acquired an Interdictor-class Star Destroyer, for example, they could drop the Resistance fleet right in the middle of their navy. 

I’m sure there are other creative uses for those two technologies, but that’s what came to my mind. 

~ Jacen

If the Empire new of weapons/ships manufacturing facilities, why didn’t they destroy them? Is it because they knew it was likely that these same locations were building theirs as well?

A lot of the Alliance’s shipbuilding facilities were not known to the Empire, as they were mostly small drydocks scattered throughout the Outer Rim. Production of the individual parts was decentralized, making it difficult for the Empire to track them down. In other cases, such as with the Mon Calamari Shipyards, the Alliance forces were able to protect them through military force. Still others were captured from the Empire, especially after the Battle of Endor. It was very unusual for one corporation to work for both the Empire and the Alliance, due to the fact that the Empire nationalized many shipbuilding facilities during the war, but there were instances where the employees of a company secretly worked against the Empire to supply the Alliance with ships, prototypes or plans. 

~ Jacen

DO you have tips on how to write droids such as R2 and BB-8? Dialogue wise, what words they would use, how eloquent they speak etc

Droids that speak in binary don’t really get dialogue, at least not in the official novels. When speaking to an organic being, their noises are usually described rather than translated, unless they’re in a starfighter, in which case the noise will often be described, followed by a reading of the translation provided on the screens. If they’re speaking to another droid, there will also usually be both a description and a translation. Here are some examples (from the Revenge of the Sith novelization, cause I had it on hand):

From its socket beside the cockpit, R2-D2 whistled and beeped. A translation spidered across Anakin’s console readout: SCANNING. LOTS OF ECM SIGNAL JAMMING.

R2-D2’s squeal was as close to terrified as a droid can sound. Glowing letters spidered across Anakin’s readout: ABORT! ABORT ABORT!

R2-D2’s whistling reply had a distinctly sulky tone. “Listen, Artoo, someone has to maintain computer contact; do you see a datajack anywhere on me?” The droid seemed to acquiesce, but not before wheeping what sounded like it might have been a suggestion where to look.

C-3PO had turned away dismissively. “It couldn’t have been that bad. Don’t exaggerate! You’re hardly even dented.”
R2’s answering feroo sounded a little defensive. C-3PO sent a wisp of static through his vocabulator that sounded distinctly like a disapproving sniff.

… [C-3PO’s] sonoreceptors picked up a familiar ferooo-wheep peroo, which his autotranslation protocol converted to DON’T WORRY. YOU’LL BE ALL RIGHT.

(All the caps lock text is written in smallcaps in the books, but obviously Tumblr doesn’t do that)

Not all books do it the exact same, but it usually resembles this format. Droids such as R2 tend to speak in short, simple sentences, though R2 has picked up so much that, as you’ll notice, he can add some flair to his speech when he wants to. Most droids do take on a particular tone; BB8, for example, is described as often sounding childlike. It seems that the more a droid is treated like another person, the more evident this personality becomes.

Hope that helps!

~ Jacen

Congrats on being done with exams! I’ve got myself stuck, I need a planet that has an abandoned Rebel base. My story takes place about 10 years before TFA/TLJ, so Crait doesn’t work (Poe hadn’t been there before the events of the movie and he’s kinda one of my main characters). Thank you!!

Thank you! Not quite done yet I’m afraid, I still have three to go :/ But the worst has passed!

You’ve got a good number of options here, so I’ll recommend a few and you can pick. Some have more info available than others, so depending on how much liberty you need to take some may work better. (I’ll link the planets, and you can find the associated base on their pages.)

Thila, Karatha, Xyquine II, Baskarn, Asterios, Reamma, Cassidode VI, Tomark II, Chrellis, Defiant Core base (planet unknown), Aracara, Tierfon, Arbra, and of course, if you think it could work, the Great Temple on Yavin 4. 

Hope one of those works for you!

~ Jacen