Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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Siliconemelons
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Finn and Poe are gay!
No, they are jsut bros, why cant bros just be bro
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No, they are jsut bros, why cant bros just be bro
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Mahes
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LOL. That bothered me immediately as well. Like they were hanging and dangling, and just fall right out of the ship. Just unbelievably stupid.
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Watch the movie.. they literally had to be over the bomb site bc the bombs "fell" out of the ship, from space. LOL. They were space bombers! Instead of it being, you know, a missile.
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Asshat wormie
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That makes no sense in this case imo. If the projectiles are launched forward, some kinetic energy is added to them in order to give them speed greater than the ships. Otherwise, the projectiles would not leave the ship because they are moving at the same speed aka remain inside. That same kinetic energy can be directed downwards in order to direct the bombs in the same manner as seen in the retarded-fucking-garbage fire-trash-homosexual-blue hair-cunt of a movie.
The bombs fit fine with the way space ship combat always worked and still works in star wars, which is mostly early 20th century aerial dog fights over big naval ships (i.e. Star Wars big ships).
The bombs are no more or less "realistic" than any given X-Wing turn or TIE-Fighter "screaming" past them or the Millenium Falcon dodging laser weapons firing at, at best, the velocity of WW1 tracers or something, in literally all Star Wars movies, novels, animated, comics, games, whatever at any point between 1977 and today.
The bombs are no more or less "realistic" than any given X-Wing turn or TIE-Fighter "screaming" past them or the Millenium Falcon dodging laser weapons firing at, at best, the velocity of WW1 tracers or something, in literally all Star Wars movies, novels, animated, comics, games, whatever at any point between 1977 and today.
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Found the nerd who can't let the worst movie ever made have scientific flaws
Kidding man.Exactly!! Let's make a slow moving SPACE vehicle that has to be in close proximity to giant ships with HUGE lasers on them to DROP bombs on the target. It's honestly the stupidest thing ever made. Well, then they had a purple haired commander, mary poppins space magic Leia, and somehow they engineered that entire sequence with (I think it was Fin and Rose? I can't even remember) that was 1/3 of the movie and had no consequence on plot, and they let Daisy Ridley get chubby. It's like they truly tried to make the stupidest movie ever.
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Chris
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Suspension of disbelief.
If every Sci-fi ever has things akin to conventional projectiles then you accept that's how it would work, even if space combat has never been done so we can only speculate how it would work.
Even EVE Online which has near instant hit railguns and lasers as options also has slower moving missiles/torpedoes. Star Trek doesn't have railguns but it does have lasers used alongside slower torpedoes.
Did the original Star Wars even have lasers on the ships? They seemed like plasma projectiles.
Literally no Sci-fi I can think of has fucking bombs you drop. Because it's stupid, there's not enough gravity for them. Magnets? They solved that in WW2 by degaussing the hulls of ships to make them not be magnetic so they didn't attract magnetic mines.
If they wanted to make WW2 analogies then they should have gone for submarines firing torpedoes as inspiration. Make them be weakly shielded, poor manuverability long range weapons which are at risk only because The New Order warped in right next to them which they are not designed for.
Fire the torpedoes FORWARDS and have the Dreadnaught be able to take a bunch of hits from them, hence needing to defend them for a prolonged period of time.
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