Hello? What's this? I missed this. Are you sure that the bolts that missed Yoda's ship fly towards Toydaria? Interesting.Mr. Oragahn wrote: The other main problems are the aim, the ranges and the missing bolt fired by Munificent ships, missing Yoda's cruiser, flying towards Toydaria and doing shit to the planetary surface, at least nothing worth gigatons of firepower which would last long enough to be spotted under another angle minutes later.
Yes they did, but rather than massive fireballs, we see a few giant rocks scatter on impact...Mike DiCenso wrote:Hello? What's this? I missed this. Are you sure that the bolts that missed Yoda's ship fly towards Toydaria? Interesting.Mr. Oragahn wrote: The other main problems are the aim, the ranges and the missing bolt fired by Munificent ships, missing Yoda's cruiser, flying towards Toydaria and doing shit to the planetary surface, at least nothing worth gigatons of firepower which would last long enough to be spotted under another angle minutes later.
-Mike
Yes, but they still managed to damage it, which IMO is very strange. And their original plan was to take out the bridge. I mean those torps shouldn't even penetrate the shield. Yet you’re able to do noticeable and crippling damage to a capital ship with just one single bombing run from a bomber squadron.Cocytus wrote:As I recall, the damage to Malevolence was done because the weapon itself overloaded, as per Plo Koon's statement: "If we do enough damage, the weapon might overload when Greivous tries to fire." Though oddly, when Anakin breaks off the attack on the bridge, he veers to his left, which should mean he's attacking the starboard ion cannon. But in subsequent shots, it's the port cannon that's attacked, and it's the port cannon that explodes first.
They might be flying towards the moon (it wasn’t Toydaria), but they doubtfully hit the surface (and if they did, they certainly didn't produce any noticeable effects at all). Most likely, the bolts exploded at some point though, before reaching the surface, like flak-blasts. We saw a few bolts from the barrage do this, so it's not that crazy an idea.Cocytus wrote:Yes they did, but rather than massive fireballs, we see a few giant rocks scatter on impact...
There were no impacts on the planet, even later when firing at the pods.Mith wrote:Yes they did, but rather than massive fireballs, we see a few giant rocks scatter on impact...Mike DiCenso wrote:Hello? What's this? I missed this. Are you sure that the bolts that missed Yoda's ship fly towards Toydaria? Interesting.Mr. Oragahn wrote: The other main problems are the aim, the ranges and the missing bolt fired by Munificent ships, missing Yoda's cruiser, flying towards Toydaria and doing shit to the planetary surface, at least nothing worth gigatons of firepower which would last long enough to be spotted under another angle minutes later.
-Mike
The ship itself looks like a fish, which is cool, but the weapon did have a jellyfish look to it. I would have gone with a sphere coming out of the sides, if it was gonna be on the side of the ship.Cocytus wrote:I actually caught this while visiting my sister and my niece. And I have to ask, am I the only one who thinks the Ion Weapon is incredibly stupid looking? The big pink wheel of electricity? It looks like a jellyfish or something. But that's just my opinion.
Okay, the malevolence is a gas guzzler. It's taking them forever to cross just one parsec in hyperspace during the dialogue [edit: the dialogue on the malevolence after the droid said only 1 parsec left] and Plo Koo said a ship that size could only go a certain number of parsecs. I forget the exact dialogue.Mith wrote:It's possible that the screen the droid was looking at represented the area that would be too dangerous for the Malevolence to navigate through via hyperspace, but something smaller like a fighter could to a certain extent and then pass through the actual nebula itself.
Actually, I would like a quote for that, since all I can remember is them saying that it be hard for it to navigate because of the nebula and its density. The good general said he was told that the ship was fast, so unless we have a contradictery quote (not to mention that the general would know more about the ship than Plo Koon), I'll have to discard that.GStone wrote:Okay, the malevolence is a gas guzzler. It's taking them forever to cross just one parsec in hyperspace during the dialogue [edit: the dialogue on the malevolence after the droid said only 1 parsec left] and Plo Koo said a ship that size could only go a certain number of parsecs. I forget the exact dialogue.Mith wrote:It's possible that the screen the droid was looking at represented the area that would be too dangerous for the Malevolence to navigate through via hyperspace, but something smaller like a fighter could to a certain extent and then pass through the actual nebula itself.
And they should really drop the droid banter.
Actually, it says that the bigger the ship, the harder it is to plot small courses.GStone wrote:I fully admit that I was multitasking at the time, but the lines are:
Anakin: The Rendelia system. Near Naboo. Isn't that where our medical base is? I'll bet that will be his next target.
Plo Koon: There are many star clusters in that area. With a ship that big, he will be unable to chart a course that's less than 10 parsecs.
http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/tele ... aid=269979
It's video, but it's at the 17:30 countdown mark. 6 minutes in. So, yeah, I misremembered that scene, but it still took them forever to travel the last parsec around the nebula in hyperspace.
However, this does bring up an interesting thing for navicomputers. The larger the ship you've got, the shorter you'll be able to plot courses, as you go along. I'd like to know just how this could remotely be consistent with hyperdrives taking people across Milky Way sized galaxies lickity split.
Okay, I'm totally admitting to a complete brain fuck up from the last couple of days. I thought I was over it. [pinches nose bridge] I've been so out of it, I even went down to the mail box yesterday after I told someone specifically there was no mail monday and the 'no mail today' thing was a subject that actually went on all day long.Mr. Oragahn wrote:Actually, it says that the bigger the ship, the harder it is to plot small courses.GStone wrote:I fully admit that I was multitasking at the time, but the lines are:
Anakin: The Rendelia system. Near Naboo. Isn't that where our medical base is? I'll bet that will be his next target.
Plo Koon: There are many star clusters in that area. With a ship that big, he will be unable to chart a course that's less than 10 parsecs.
http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/tele ... aid=269979
It's video, but it's at the 17:30 countdown mark. 6 minutes in. So, yeah, I misremembered that scene, but it still took them forever to travel the last parsec around the nebula in hyperspace.
However, this does bring up an interesting thing for navicomputers. The larger the ship you've got, the shorter you'll be able to plot courses, as you go along. I'd like to know just how this could remotely be consistent with hyperdrives taking people across Milky Way sized galaxies lickity split.