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I'm really not a fan of super weapons in sci fi. They make little sense, if you ask me.
like. really. the Deathstar didn't really serve much in the way of a useful purpose.
A carrier for self-mobile carriers? that made planets go poof?
Any reasonable rebel would just not be on a planet, which means you're making your own resources go poof. and by resources, I mean labor force.
This something I never understood about Hoth. strap that ion gun and it's genset to a freighter, and you'd have a pretty mean gunship that can disable entire convoys or blockades. equip other freighters for wildcat gas extraction and refinery and solve your fuel problems. same for manufacturing, with the advantage of not losing your shit everytime the Empire shows up.
You sir, are suggesting that Star Wars makes logical hard-sci-fi sense which it has not. Please refer to first minute of movie where you can hear engines and laser fire.
aural synthesis of sensrionics to enhance situational awareness.
(For a non bullshit answer it was for creating engagement with the audience. The utter silence of 2001 space odyssey kinda bothered a lot of people.)
(Same with the swooping.)
(Though from a certain point of view, swooping happens.)
Kinda misses the point that star wars is space fantasy, not sci fi
It absolutely is fantasy
But the physics as far as that goes are still on point compared to, idunno, Star Trek.
The sound in space, the swooping, all of that were story telling tools used to convey a sense of what was happening. Realistic space battles aren’t really all that exciting.
Not even the expanse got that right. They just replaced particle beams with Gatling guns and condescending but inaccurate explanations of why things don’t swoop.
Fun fact, the reason planes and stuff seem to swoop is because they’re under constant accelerations and observed from the perspective outside the plane. One source of that constant acceleration is the atmosphere (drag and lift,) but you can just as easily replace that with fusion maneuvering thrusters or something.
Real space battles are probably like split-second flypasts repeated until one spacecraft is destroyed. The likelihood of both spacecraft voluntarily keeping the speed between them below 100m/s is very low.