I highly doubt that people forget about stars and earth, if they have such high tech robots. You'd almost definitely have an information database like Wikipedia stored somewhere. Knowledge like this doesn't just disappear.
And I wonder how many more times of energy was contained in her "lightsaber" tool to be able to cut through solid walls, than the energy required to lower the bridge. It most definitely has something like counterweights, like in an elevator, so that much less energy is needed to operate the bridge.