Why the hell aren't there more "space opera" / futuristic CRPGs?

The difference is that when you find superior-weapon in some ruins it should have the effect on the setting as it can be reverse-engineered and duplicated, a magical-sword cannot. Sure it can be explained by fantastic materials that cannot be found anywhere, but at this point I think it's just a fantasy with a new paintjob, not a space opera.

Wouldn't that imply that the party is accumulates more resources than the entire faction that supports them could spare? Is one ship relying on looting really able to compete with an economy of a nation capable of constructing starships? It would also imply that they have technological expertise on par of an entire space-base. I know that games like FTL rely on this setup, but I always found it strange how unbelievably primitive and weak the player ship is compared to what can be bought in some god-forgotten space-dock somewhere.

Inspired by this thread I've also decided to start reading TOS/TNG Bible. Funny to find people shitting on Abrams's and Kurzman's ideas years before they managed to get their hands on the franchise
From the "what doesn't work for TNG" section:

 

Actually obtaining some item doesn't mean that you can reserve engineer it, unless you have full understanding of work phases that are needed to produce it.

Here's a real life anecdotal example; I once chatted with a person who had maintained FAFs MiG-21s and teached metallurgy, he said that Soviet made titanium tools that they used withstood bending in ways that defied what was commonly known properties of titanium alloys.
They had no practical way to reverse-engineer those.

 

That's fair, but I still think those were Tolkien moments, just overwhelmed by what we know and love.

I'm not going to completely argue this point, but its worth pointing out that there are general hats each major sci-fi franchise seems to have. You have the obvious space elves, space orcs, the religious ones, the honorable ones, the scheming ones, the money-grubbers and the militaristic ones. If you pay attention, you can always tell what they started off as.

Funny, nearly every kind of sci-fi media except RPGs usually has some kind of precursor tech lying around in a tomb somewhere.
I used to agree on the point in JA...heck, I still do, but outside of the whole game aspect there's another angle. What country are they storing these high-grade weapons in, and do they want citizens using these weapons?