Mr. Oragahn wrote:GStone wrote:Energy bomb?
Pretty much the theory I suggested/defended back when I was at B².
The part I have to sort out is why part of a bolt will still move on while there's been a burst.
It could be residual and luminous particles which would have no major effect on a target... and would probably fade away.
I think it's the same reason why you can't just jump up in a falling elevator just before it crashes and you live. The energy inside (you inside an elevator) are still traveling as fast as the container (elevator). The elevator crashes and you're still traveling at almost the same speed after you jump, so you'll hit the floor of the elevator and crash, too, dying.
AnonymousRedShirtEnsign wrote:I think that is absolutely absurd, and that anyone who defends that, is either un-objective, or severely lacking in knowledge of both Star Wars and physics not to mention common sense.
I have joked about the blob being like an energy bomb clock, but the delayed reaction with needing to punch through with KE alone does help to explain why certain things are as they are, such as the prep time needed to get calculations to jump to hyperspace. You're getting pulverized and know you're gonna get a hull breech, so you order someone to get the calcs and make the jump. On larger ships, like SDs, they've got a little time. More often than not, it's fighter versus fighter and some fighters can take a beating, while others can't, so they, too, would have a little bit of time to have the computer get the calcs when they know they gotta jump to hyperspace.
Having a tower on capital ships lets them look around at those that are firing on them. Since we don't really see ships coming up from underneath and firing on SD (at least, during the OT; I know a piece flew at a Venator in ep 3 and I think 2 ships crashed into each other above coruscant), so I'd imagine that they are more heavily shielded underneath, especially since the only thing on the underside is the hangar and the tractor beam. All the weapons are on the sides and on the top, so, to allow heat to be expelled and not cook the crew and to turn the weapons around, they won't be as armored, as the underside because they would be made with materials that have holes for the weapon ports, which means that the surface will also have weaker materials because you aren't gonna design hull plating to go on the structural support beams of a TL battery, no matter the size. This gives attackers easier points of attack and having a tower let's you see them better because they won't be attacking from underneath.
