Whats the point of having ships so big when an X-Wing can render 90% of your defence mechanisms useless

Whats the point of having ships so big when an X-Wing can render 90% of your defence mechanisms useless

Also, are we to believe they cannot track escape pods or transport vessels jettisoning later in the move

(LOL RADAR WASNT TURNED ON SIR)

What you have to remember is that they are only >25000 years ahead of our technology, why are you so sure they should have radar or even decent displays?

Because it's an anti-captial ship. It's supposed to have small fighter waves as escorts. Unfortunately, the Firsto Order is commanded by white men instead of Vulcans, so they fucked up.

A million things about this movie pissed me off, but I'll focus on this.

They sent a squadron of bombers to attack this thing. There were, what, 7 or 8 of them? And they were huge so I imagine they collectively held enough bombs to shred that thing, but all except 1 got destroyed, and that one bomber was enough to take it down. Why did they send all of them if 1 could do the job? I guess to ensure that at least 1 would make it amidst all the attack? Also I hate the fucking cliche they used in this scene, that one where the ships get picked off one after the other in seconds, then miraculously they just stop firing at the last one just long enough to let it through. The other bombers got FUCKED completely in maybe a minute flat. Boom, 15 seconds later, boom, 15 seconds later, boom, etc. But then it takes them a full 2 minutes to finally take the last one down. So god damn stupid.

If only they had a purple-haired feminist as a commander, then they could have light-speeded the Star Destroyer into the rebel fleet.

>ignoring the bombs had gravity(???)
>ignoring the fact that their engines were accelerating as the bombs were dropped

As for the cliche of the lone survivor finishing the job, it literally happens near the end again when all the rebel rustbucket fighters are going to destroy the cannon, they quickly suffer very heavy causalities, (poe and the remaining couple peel off) and Finn is completely disregarded for the long stretch he is flying towards them alone.
Of course he gets rammed by the Blacked chink before he can admiral akbar, but fucking hell, why would she do that if they were all going to die because of her intervention anyway?

Bad writing given shape...

Also ignoring that cloak technology didn't even really exist in Star Wars. Now a random pleasure yacht has cloack tech

You have to save the ones you love. :)

Well, the bomber had gravity inside somehow, even with open bay doors, so they fall out of the bomber because of inside gravity, then the momentum keeps them moving downward when they exit the gravity.

>Two targets, the Rebel base (which your sensors say has no life forms) which can't move because it's a building, and the Rebel flagship which can move because it's a ship
>Target the base first

I feel like Snoke's strategy of having a whiny bitch as his military commander was not well thought out.

The gravity issue isn't a big deal for me. You could explain it as the warship below is so big it has it's own field, or something.

What I wonder is how many planets did Holdo destroy when she went to light? I mean, she didn't stop at Snoke's ship? Yeah, she destroyed it, but pieces of her probably got spread across countless systems, obliterating everything in it's path before settling or incinerating.

i don't remember x-wings taking out destroyers defences single-handedly in the ot

I don't think that happened

If they fell at 9.8m/s, they had 3-5 metres max to fall, making their speed

In RotJ a fighter kamikazes into the bridge of a star destroyer, which then “sinks”

Big Lego sets

Maybe the radar has a really long PRF or whatever? Maybe it is designed to detect big ole ships spread in formation

So im confused why the main plot was that the ship had shield fuel and the big bad ship was slowly shooting at it to destroy it. Why don't all ships have big ass shields? How does this work and why the fuck didn't the bad guys just shoot it with more stuff to kill it faster?

Also why the fuck don't all ships be used as light speed guns? How can one ship go light speed and kill a whole army but they don't have shields against it? What the fuck is going on in this shit movie.

The Tie Bombers dropped bombs on those asteroids in the original films. I think we can overlook that aspect.

>ahead

But the opening crawl says it’s in the past

that's not realistic in a technical sense, but in a dramatic sense of "disabling a ship by destroying its bridge and crew" it works. in tlj poe just flies around the defensive guns without a care, with the excuse being "he's too small for our guns," which makes no sense as shooting down attacking ships is exactly what those guns are for

I guess that makes sense. Like an aircraft carrier. But it's still stupid

A y-yes but you see, a rabid curr can make a very useful t-tool. he he he now excuse me while I die from a wound that Disney canon says isn’t even fatal for dark side users

Because the plot needed it to happen.

>bombs had gravity

NOT A CRITICISM YOU AUTIST

STAR WARS IS NOT A SCIENCE LESSON.

Unironically almost got up and left as Poe's lone x wing started taking out enormous turrets with one round of laser fire each. Is armor completely fucking useless in Star Wars?

>Ahead of our technology
get those cataracts checked shlomo

No way. At least 12 meters per second. That's not exactly slow.

How can they be years ahead when they are in the past

What were the purpose of the two star destroyers there at the start of the film? When the Dreadnought busts in and starts getting attacked why do the two escorting SDs just sit there, thumb up bum? Don't they have some sort of air defence? Could they have attacked the Rebel fleet?

>he doesn't know the Atlanteans had CRT tvs

Is Star Wars woke about aincent Egypt?

Star wars is not futuristic. Star Wars is WW2 in space.

>HURR DUUR!1!11 objects accelerating can go at faster speeds than physically possible given the distance fallen and time taken.
I would like to see the in universe guy who invented a gravity bubble that extends beyond the ship (just to doom beyond saving any hapless soul who falls out into the void.

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Obligatory.

In fact, I'm really surprised that Sup Forums hasn't latched onto this meme yet. It's an oldie, but a goodie.

Yeah but you can argue that the asteroid has gravity to actually pull the bombs down, even then i'm sure there's some mechanism that shoots the bombs out.

It's for blowing up bases. They should've scrambled the fighters 5 minutes ago. Captain Kennedy said so himself. Weren't you following the movie, you dopey shit?

Because that is old as dirt and posted in every ship thread ever.

And it's most appropriate for TLJ.

But I do forget that Sup Forums only pretends to be Star Wars fans when it's convenient.

>There will never be Das Boot in space
Why do they refuse to do anything interesting with the franchise?

Because its a stupid picture. Modern and even ancient governments that are far more spread out, decentralized, and lack military discipline manage to not turn into openly warring fiefdoms.

Its also old as balls and everyone has seen is

The first death star is like 50 times more massive than the supremacy, go whine about that then

Star Wars tech is pretty meh other than ftl and lasers n shit

It’s like 14 times the size of the Supremacy, if that.

Doesn't help that aside for Coruscant and Naboo the bulk of the story takes place at the literal ass end of space.

Literally a giant ship with a penis commanded by white males.

Actually its probably more than 50.

Twice as wide in diameter, 10-20 deeper and god knows how many times taller.

That looks like something out of the old lucas arts X wing games.

What’s the point of building huge moon sized planet destroying battlestations when a ship weighing just

Not enough

>posting a relevant meme is considered whining

Sup Forums contrarians are so cute. They think their opinion actually matters. Adorable.

we see Alderaan for a brief moment in Episode 3, George was at least trying to expand the Universe by including scenes like this.

>that webm
what the fuck

Meanwhile in TLJ we go to a planet with a name that sounds like "Krayt," but is clearly distinct from the planet "Krayt" where "Krayt dragons" come from. In fact, I think it's phonetically an identical name. Did they go to Krayt in TLJ, or did they go to cr8?

Totally irrelevant. The picture is just a cheap joke and everyone has seen it, that's why you have no positive reaction to it. Don't be sour because your first image post didn't go over well

I'm still getting (you)'s out of your stupid ass.

It worked out just fine.

I completely ignored this. Why did he attack the base first? Their fucking fleet is RIGHT THERE, so attack that first. If anyone still one the base, you can kill them later, it's not like they can leave.

>WE NEED TO SCRAMBLE OUR FIGHTERS!
>FIVE MINUTES AGO!!!!
Yeah, Captain Kannedy, why didn't you scramble your fighters when you saw an X-Wing coming at you? Did you not realize that your turbolasers couldn't keep up with it? Why is everyone in the FO either a cowardly moron moron, or a toady who has no initiative despite being charismatic and somewhat competent?

Not to mention how they point out they're not negotiating for anything, only coming to murder them all... yet they indulge Poe? Why not start shooting the moment he shows up?