I love threads like this. What makes anyone think they are in possession of all the facts?
here are some known 'facts' about the 'tech': The death star's levels are not concentric, (like layers of an onion) they stack one on top of the other, from south to north. This alone precludes a normal gravity well.
Ships in the Star Wars universe use inertial dampening, and have the ability to create and control gravity.
Proton Torpedoes are seeker enabled warheads, capable of making right angle turns without relativistic physics carrying them past their intended trajectory, that goofy inertial dampening technology.
All creatures on earth, with the exception of deep sea critters that live their lives in the abyss, seek an orientation they 'sense' as relative 'up'. It makes sense that this would be true as well for aliens. In space, humans (and other races if they exist) will likely orient themselves to either the galactic north or south... (silly galaxies... so 2 dimensional!)
All the space battles in the starwars universe so far have taken place in orbit above a planet. Take Yavin for instance, the death star is closing to blow the moon out of existence, the best approach vector for firing would be head on, this would create a 'plane' of combat, i.e. the shortest distance between the death star and the rebel base, this is naturally where combat would occur.
Also, why would the rebel fleet around endor orient itself in a direction other than at the death star? their whole goal was to engage it, they WANTED to get closer to it, thus, their engines must be facing away. Formations are a nice thing too, you keep a corvette in your blind spot to cover you, and another Mon Calamari cruiser covers the corvette, overlapping fields of fire.
what else... oh, the trench run. Explained "We have to get below those Turbo Lasers" (or a phrase very similar to it.) there were less guns to deal with in the trench than on the surface, and it limited fighter angle of attacks as well. (though, why a second set of fighters didn't come in behind the first and offer a rear guard is beyond me.
) (Also why are some rebel pilots so fat?)
My wife says I have a great memory for worthless info.
Oh, and not to be insulting, but is TURRENT a word someplace else? I see people mis-spell TURRET all the time as TURRENT, and I am just wondering.
How about not overanalyzing a hallmark of modern american cinema and just enjoying it? I mean, if you want to nit pick it, how about the fact that Lea knows han's name in the garbage mansion yet they haven't had time to introduce each other? Or why a civilization that has been in the stars for 20,000 years even NEEDS a garbage compactor, haven't they figured out matter to energy conversion yet?
NO, I am not a hueg starwars fan, I just remember everything. :|
