I find it hard to believe that even though most, if not all, Star Wars ship battles take place out of the orbit of planets in space, why do capital ships fall if they take enough damage? In ROTJ, a courageous pilot flies his craft into the Imperial Super Star Destroyer and destroys the bridge but then it somehow falls into the Death Star. In Clone Wars, there are several instances of Venator Jedi Cruisers and Banking Clan Frigates &quot;falling&quot;. Why do ships fall in space if there is no gravity?
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From A New Hope to Revenge of the Sith to The Last Jedi, we see starships blown up in battles in space. The larger ships, like Star Destroyers and Dreadnoghts, don't just blow up, however. They partially explode and fall. Larger structures, like the Death Star, explode. Smaller ships, like X-Wings and TIE Fighters, explode. While we can assume that certain weapons will affect smaller ships differently than their larger counterparts, this disharmony is a bit confusing.  What causes larger ships to 'fall' when blown up in the Star Wars universe?
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In Stars Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope, did Han Solo shoot Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter wingman from his chair in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon or from one of the Falcon’s two swiveling gun turrets?  If he was in one of the swiveling gun turrets, then Chewbacca was flying the Falcon at that moment and he did a great job of piloting because he likely had to dodge the laser fire coming from about 10 or more gun turrets on the Death Star in order to get close enough to the Death Star’s surface for Han to make that shot.  If this is what occurred, then Chewbacca was the real hero of the day in my opinion.
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Star Wars has different levels of canon and explanations for each level (movies, books, games and so on).  From what I've seen in Star Trek, there seems to be one level of canon: If it was on screen (other than the animated series), it's canon (although some people claim the 2009 movie and Star Trek: The Final Frontier don't really count).  If it's not on screen, it's not canon.  Is that it?  Or are there some games that are a second level of canon, or some books or other material considered to be a higher level than other media?  Or is there just one level of canon in Star Trek?
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I understand that the Jedi use the Force for self defence, but still, couldn't they just use the Force to snap their foes' necks and be done with it? Like when Jaina Solo was hunting down Darth Caedus. Or even when Caedus was duelling Grand Master Skywalker. If he just used the Force to snap Skywalker's neck (like he did to poor Lieutenant Tebut), it will all be over very fast.  Is there a canon reason why Jedi and Sith don't use their powers to directly harm their opponents?
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This is really bugging me. When you look up some educational text about stars life, this is what you find out:   Gravity creates the temperature and pressure to start fusion reactions. The fusion proceeds to heavier and heavier cores ending with iron, which remains in the centre of the star. One moment, all light cores are depleted and the gravity wins over the power of the fusion reactions, now absent. The core of the star collapses into high density object, which may vary depending on the star mass. And the top layers of the star explode.   And I just cannot find clear explanation why. According to what I imagine, the top layers of the star should just fall into the collapsing core.  Is that because of the 3rd Newtons rule?  Or do the stars have some need to end with a cool boom?
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I haven't seen it in movies &amp; TV shows (And, no luck regarding novels as I haven't read any). But, in many Star Wars video games, I experience disturbance while using force in some tech environment. Is there any canonical explanation of it? I don't consider video games under canon..
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In Star Trek, it seems like they take forever to build ships.  It takes months, if not years to make them.  So why not just build gigantic replicators in space, then replicate the ship (excepting non-replicatable objects like the warp core)?  This would presumably come with a huge energy cost, but would save massive amounts of time.
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In A New Hope, after Han and Luke fight off the TIE Fighters while escaping from the Death Star, these exchanges happen:             INT. DEATH STAR - CONTROL ROOM             Darth Vader strides into the control room, where Tarkin is             watching the huge view screen. A sea of stars is before him.                                   TARKIN                      Are they away?                                   VADER                      They have just made the jump into                       hyperspace.                                   TARKIN                      You're sure the homing beacon is                       secure aboard their ship? I'm taking                       an awful risk, Vader. This had better                       work.             INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT             Han, removes his gloves and smiling, is at the controls of             the ship. Chewie moves into the aft section to check the             damage. Leia is seated near Han.                                   HAN                      Not a bad bit of rescuing, huh? You                       know, sometimes I even amaze myself.                                   LEIA                      That doesn't sound too hard. Besides,                       they let us go. It's the only                       explanation for the ease of our                       escape.                                   HAN                      Easy... you call that easy?                                   LEIA                      They're tracking us!                                   HAN                      Not this ship, sister.             Frustrated, Leia shakes her head.                                   LEIA                      At least the information in Artoo is                       still intact.                                   HAN                      What's so important? What's he                       carrying?                                   LEIA                      The technical readouts of that battle                       station. I only hope that when the                       data is analyzed, a weakness can be                       found. It's not over yet!   Leia doesn't even know if there is a weakness, let alone whether they'll find one. If she (correctly) realizes that they're being tracked, why doesn't she suggest that the Millennium Falcon go somewhere besides Yavin 4 instead of just frustratedly shaking her head? I know the plans , but it seems unlikely that continuing to fly to the secret Rebel base in the ship she's certain is being tracked is the only option. They are already in hyperspace when this conversation happens, but they apparently have time to talk for a little while after, so presumably they'd have time to stop and reroute.
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At the start of the movie it says:      "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."   Does this mean that the entire Star Wars saga takes place in a single galaxy? To my understanding a galaxy isn't very big compared to the universe itself. Star Wars has many different sentient races, and the way they are presented suggests that most planets are host to only one of them (some exceptions like naboo). This strongly leads me to believe there should actually be more galaxies in the Star Wars universe (hehe).   Another thing, I think it's safe to assume that even if the entire saga takes place in one single galaxy, their researchers can observe other galaxies (I think we started doing that in the 1600s, and they are a lot more technologically advanced than we were back then). When Obi-wan is looking for Kamino (the rain planet with the cloners) the librarian says something like "If it's not in our records, it doesn't exist", so she must be convinced that the entire universe has been explored.    If the entire universe has been documented, why wouldn't they go to those other galaxies? The technology seems to be advanced enough to hop to another galaxy. Is there any canon material that suggest that traveling between galaxies is done? If not, is there a canon explanation why they don't?
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I'm having some issues with the simulated animation from learning blender. specifically my arrays of 30mm vulcan bullets, they all fall too uniformly perfect. The tips come off all at same time and start to tilt in exact same direction before unrealistically landing in a pile. separate by geometry, individual origin points. I have asked, on blender.chat, Chamferzones youtube page, chamferzones discord, and have watch the tutorial like 5 times. His results are different. I have searched for arrays and gravity rigid body physics and cannot find anything useful. This is an image at frame 5 or so as they begin to fall.   Blend file link.  I have never shared a blend file hopefully that works if not let me know how. I packed external data and made relative just in case, not sure if i needed to though.
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A fundamental law of physics is, in short, that two things cannot exist in the same space at the same time.  This is easily demonstrated by dropping a relatively large mass, such as pasta noodles, into a container of water, such as a pot.  The water level will rise as it "makes room" for the pasta, and will overflow if you've put in too much of either.  Conversely, if you were to scoop all of the noodles out (presuming you had a way to scoop just the noodles, without taking along any water at all) you would see the water sink down to its original level (or lower, if it had overflown earlier).  Taking this into consideration, I see a problem with transporter technology which I'm not sure I've ever seen addressed:  What happens to the air surrounding a transport subject's origin point, or occupying the destination?  The transporter must have some means of compensating for the displacement, otherwise each transport should in theory be accompanied by a loud pop at each end - at the origin when the air collapses to fill a vacuum left behind, and at the destination when a relatively large volume of air is forced away to make room for the subject.  This effect should be even more pronounced, and perhaps even hazardous, in closed environments such as spacecraft where the air has really no place to go.  One option would be to have the transporter exchange the air (or other matter, such as dust or raindrops) at the destination for the matter of the subject, as it is being transported.  However, this is not seen as we would often notice small portions of dust storms or downpours getting dropped onto the transporter pad when people are transported into adverse weather conditions.  Imagine having that cleanup as part of the Transporter Chief's job duties.  Another option would be to process the matter from the destination through the replicator, so that it is congruous with the same volume of air at the origin.  This would be a fairly complex operation though, and could result in a lag too long to be acceptable by the laws of physics.  Come to think of it, this same (or a similar) issue should affect replicator and holodeck technology as well.  Has any of this ever been addressed canonically, either in a Star Trek episode or in technical manuals?
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The default answer among most people to my previous  seems to be that Obi-Wan was referring to becoming a force ghost. Now whilst this seems pretty cool, you are now hindered into well Kyle Jones says it best     Force Immortality seems like a bust to me. Obi-Wan could get around the galaxy without a starship, true, but the fine print of the immortality contract restricted him to visiting only a few close friends. Seems like being alive with a good galactic cellphone plan would be an all-around better deal. And of course there were the women... – Kyle Jones    So what gives? Are you inherently more powerful as a force ghost?
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In The Empire Strikes Back Yoda uses the Force to lift Luke's X-Wing out of the water and put it on land.  In Attack of the Clones and in many instances in the second series of The Clone Wars, Anakin (and others) use the Force to jump higher than they could otherwise, or to jump from very high locations, but I don't think I've ever seen the Force used for outright self-levitation.  But if Yoda could lift the X-Wing, shouldn't a strong Jedi be able to lift himself and, essentially, fly with the help of the Force?
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In all the canons of Star Wars, there has not been one instance of a Force-user projecting Force lightning from their feet. Why? Is it implausible?
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In :     Artoo butts the golden droid over the edge and steps off himself, tumbling toward the sand.   But in :     ARTOO uses his rocket jets to fly up and into the factory.   Why didn't R2-D2 use his jets in RotJ instead of ending feet up in the sand?  Update: I am looking for an in-universe explanation.
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When a ship is under attack, the shields wear down over the course of the attack.  What is the mechanism behind this? Aren't the shields powered using energy? While the ship has energy, shouldn't it be able to indefinitely defend against attacks the shield can absorb?
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During the Wolf-359 incident, 39 starships were destroyed, and 11,000 people were killed or assimilated.  Why didn’t one of the smaller ships warp into that one Borg cube? Doesn’t warping into it destroy anything?  Even if it just warps through without touching, one could program the navicom to self destruct while the ship is in the middle of Borg cube.