kedro new --starter <local template> doesn't work offline

[ankatiyar]

Description

Reported by user on Slack: https://kedro.hall.community/kedro-new-command-fails-due-to-offline-environment-v8JlcFqqmr0T

The Kedro new command pointing to the local copy of a starter template doesn't work without an internet connection.
From a brief investigation, it seems like this regression was introduced in #3900 in Kedro 0.19.7 where the fallback mechanism was added. When there's no connection, the function _get_latest_starters_version() returns an empty string which throws the Invalid Version error in

kedro/kedro/framework/cli/starters.py

Line 133 in f6ecca5

return parse(version) <= parse(starters_version)