>Fly at super-speed down the length of a trench.
>But the exhaust port is pointed upwards at space.
Why didn't the Y-wing fighters just fly toward the Death Star and fire a single torpedo directly down the exhaust.
Fly at super-speed down the length of a trench
Asher Price
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Josiah Thompson
yeah why didn't they just fly DIRECTLY at an exhaust port through the Death Star defenses instead of utilizing a long, protected trench to avoid laser fire?
Samuel Young
They stopped firing at luke from the Deathstar because Darth Vader was following him
Austin Foster
They had no trouble flying at the trench in the first place to take cover from gun towers then flying down the length of the trench while getting shot at by many more gun towers all along the inside of the trench.
Levi Flores
Same reason you orbit ships in Eve Online instead of simply going at them head on
angular velocity
Anthony Cox
yeah, it's almost like some areas are more protected than others x)
Jackson Gomez
Because it's shielded.
That doesn't exactly make sens either but Lucas is a hack.
Alexander Ross
Because Lucas used tracing paper for this scene.
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Carter Anderson
It had thousands of Turbolasers on the surface of the death star
Noah Robinson
Oh do tell me, why indeed a squadron of rebel ships choose to enter in one place, and fly dangerously through a trench so they could reach a sensitive area? Could this sensitive area be heavily guarded from the surface? Could the entrance point in the trench somehow offer a strategic advantage?
It's only autists who make me think this hard about some irrelevant plot point from a movie 30 years ago.
James Bailey
maybe............just maybe they would have had a quicker success if 30 rebels fighters shoot all at the same time into one hole from a vertical angle of attack.
Michael Perry
>Oh do tell me, why indeed a squadron of rebel ships choose to enter in one place, and fly dangerously through a trench
Because George Lucas is a hack fraud who plagerized 1950s British war movies.
Joshua Carter
The death star is shielded. That's the entire point of having to go through the trench.
Jacob Foster
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Isaac Gray
Yet fighters had no trouble getting through that shield?
Elijah Roberts
Shielding in the star wars universe always applied exclusively to energy based attacks.
Caleb Foster
They probably had more powerful laser cannons near the port that would take out a fighter planes coming straight at it.
Jaxon Peterson
Pure plagiarism
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Colton Cox
No they didn't! We are told multiple times the Death Star has no defenses capable of dealing with fighters.
Hudson White
How do TIE fighters fly?
Bentley Sanchez
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Cameron Bailey
TIE fighter = twin ion engine
anyone who was 5 years old and read the fucking ships book knows that
goddamn newfag
Carter Nelson
their bombs curve after a certain point, that's why they had to shoot it that way
Owen Roberts
HOLY FUCK THAT IS WHY IN BATTLEFRONT 2 THE TORPEDOES CURVE DOWN NO MATTER WHAT HOLY SHIT user YOU JUST SOLVED A MYSTERY HAUNTING ME FOREVER. THANK YOU
Owen Myers
>The exhaust port is 2 meters wide
>That's impossible, even for a computer!
What kind of idiot was Lucas? Even in 1977 guided weapons that could hit such a target existed in our own world, never mind the hyper technology of Star Wars.
Nolan Gonzalez
Importantly, how the fuck did the shots curve into the exhaust port?
How could anyone fire a shot down an exhaust port when they are perpendicular to the hole?
Like, even if we assume that Luke somehow used the force to turn his laser bolts mid air, how would anyone else be expected to fire into the exhaust port?
No one in the rebels was really force sensitive. How would they have been able to shoot into the port when they were flying perpendicular to the exhaust shaft?
Aiden Miller
Maybe that's why the Empire never gave much consideration to such a glaring design flaw.
Brayden Scott
>laser bolts
They were torpedos.