Leia openly admitted her belief that they got off too easily from Death Star - they only sent 4 fighters after them instead of hundreds. So she knew she was being tracked (the 1976 novelization 100% confirms that with more details). If so, why in the world did she make Han fly Millennium Falcon straight to Rebel main base on Yavin, leading Death Star straight to it? (they didn't know where the base was before that!) - instead of, say, having Han fly her and Luke to some waypoint and changing ships on the way, or at the very least, scanning Millennium Falcon for tracking devices thoroughly for a week while hanging out in the middle of uninhabited space? NOTE: Leia clearly did NOT give up Yavin to Imperials during interrogation, otherwise Vader and Tarkin wouldn't need the tracking device so much:  &quot; I'm taking an awful risk, Vader. This had better work.&quot;  So, there doesn't seem to be any rush to reach Yavin ASAP.
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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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For part of Rogue One,       Cassian Andor wants to kill Galen Erso to prevent him from continuing to work on the Death Star. However, Andor has just witnessed the destruction of Jedha City from the Death Star, meaning it was too late for that. Why did he still want to kill Erso after this?   Blind following of orders likely isn't the reason, as he had a chance to check in with his superiors but chose not to.  Why kill someone who no longer posed a threat?
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At the beginning of Star Wars: A New Hope, we see the Rebel Blockade Runner with Princess Leia and the Droids being pursued by a Star Destroyer above the planet Tatooine.  Practically directly above it, close enough that it could almost be in orbit.    It seems an incredibly strange coincidence that they should run so close to a planet that just happens to play host to Darth Vader's estranged son and former mentor before his turn to the Dark Side.  Moreso that they'd fly so close to any planet at all, when space is so vast and empty.    What reason did the Rebel Blockade Runner have for being so close to Tatooine during this chase?
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Once it became clear who Palpatine/Sidious was, I got to questioning just how much the Trade Federation knew about the mysterious hooded figure who was ordering them around. At one point we have the exchange about landing troops on Naboo:     Nute Gunray: My lord, is that legal?   Palpatine: I will make it legal!                                    It must have seemed strange to them that the senator (at that stage at least) wanted them to first blockade his own planet, then invade it.  It is implied they knew something about him in that they accepted his assurance that he would make it legal. Unless he was the chancellor, or a very highly regarded or skillful senator, the claims of 'making it legal' would not have had much chance of convincing fearful underlings.   I figure that the group powerful enough to realize those claims must have consisted of less than 50 individuals in the entire senate. Probably half of those had Jabba the Hutt bodies or eye stalks, meaning they would not look close enough to humanoid and could be immediately discounted - so that leaves only around 25 individuals it might have been. Remove the female senators, and the men whose voices were completely different to that of their lord and you might have 3-4 left.  On the other hand, if they did not know who he was, why were they following his instructions?
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Is the reason neither Yoda or Obi-Wan thought it a good idea to inform Luke that      his father and Vader were the same person   ever discussed? Were they hoping that       Vader himself   didn't realize this, and that it wouldn't come up? Or was there an explicit rationale behind hiding this fact from Luke?  Wouldn't it seem risky to send Luke in blind, with the chance of him finding out without their support, considering how emotional attachment can be a door into the Dark Side?
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In Revenge of the Sith, after first being Force-choked by Anakin and then given births to Luke and Leia, Padme Amidala eventually lost her life on Polis Massa. We later, however, see her in the funeral procession on Naboo. The question is, how did she get there?    I mean, whoever delivered her there must have faced a lot of difficult questions, not just from her family but also from both the people and the authorities, since she was the former queen of the planet. Whoever it was, he could not have been just somebody, because it most certainly must not have been an easy task. It most likely was not any of the Jedi, since the world was probably half full of Palpatine's collaborators who would have immediately given them away.  So, who was it? And how was it carried out, in practice?
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In The Force Awakens, after the First Order are alerted to BB-8, Rey, and Finn's presence at the cantina, an aerial bombardment of the compound begins. They also deploy ground troops.  Wouldn't it have been better to not have an aerial bombardment and simply have the troops surround the cantina, keeping as many people as possible bottled up inside it while they searched both the interior and surrounding area for BB-8?  Instead of a surgical extraction, the strategy that they chose seemed to create chaos and even risked destroying BB-8.  Perhaps this was a sign of the inexperience and emotionally-charged state of Kylo Ren, but General Hux seemed to have more direct authority over the deployment of troops and fighters.  So what was the strategy behind these tactics?
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I'm just playing my first round of FTL and I'm wondering what can affect the speed of the rebel fleet that is pursuing me.   Does the time I spend in realtime in each system matter, or is only the number of jumps important?  What ways are there to slow down the fleet?
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In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, once the Starkiller Base has depleted the star it is drawing power from, is it supposed to travel to another star where it can draw more power? Or is it non-mobile and supposed to fire a few, limited shots only? Or can it somehow reuse the star it is drawing power from, even after it has been depleted?  Its name suggests that it will "kill" or completely deplete the star it is drawing power from, but I haven't noticed an indication in the film that the Starkiller Base can travel to other stars.
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In The Empire Strikes Back film, the opening crawl says:     The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding young Skywalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of space....   It has also been established in Return of the Jedi that Force users can sense each other:     Chewie whines nervously. Luke stares at the Huge Super Star Destroyer    that looms ever larger before them.      LUKE: Vader's on that ship.   If Darth Vader is obsessed with finding Luke and he can sense his presence, the obvious thing to do would be to follow Luke's X-Wing after the battle of Hoth rather than the Millennium Falcon. Why didn't he?
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When on the bridges/catwalks, why did neither the Jedi nor the Sith use the Force to push/pull their enemy to their death? The Jedi may have had a purpose, but why didn't the Sith use it?   Every Jedi Knight player would have done that! (Especially in a place like Nar Shaddaa streets.)  Furthermore, although I think this one is simply a bug in the movie, at one point, he even seems to step backwards to make some room for the Jedi jumping over his catwalk.    Even with or without this, is there any in-universe explanation why they didn't just use Force push/pull?
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When , he leaves Vader alive. Sure, he's missing his legs and has just caught on fire; but when Obi-Wan walks away, Vader is still alive.   I think it's likely that Obi-Wan would have sensed that Vader was still alive until he was a fair distance away from Mustafar, saving Padme.  In addition, we have this line, from Obi-Wan to Vader:     You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith,   not join them. You were to bring balance to the force, not leave it in   darkness.   So Obi-Wan knew that Anakin was now a Sith. He also seems to hold no hope (at that moment) that Anakin could fulfill the prophecy in the manner in which the Jedi believed he would. It's as if he gave up on Anakin and the prophecy right there.  But he had him! He freaking had him and he let him go! Why not finish him off? All he had to do was walk up and take off his head.  Maybe he didn't want to kill a defenceless man. In that case, why not arrest him to be tried by what was left of the Jedi (Yoda and Obi)? Why just leave him there?
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In Star Wars,  are:  A hyperlane, also known as a hyperroute, hyperway, hyperspace route, hyperspace lane, spacelane, star-route, or trade route, was an area of space that had been deemed safe for hyperspace travel. The largest were known as super-hyperroutes.  And the wikia's more extensive answer is:  Hyperlanes were routes through space in which a spaceship could safely travel without colliding with a body in space, or some other phenomenon such as a black hole. There were about eight major routes in the galaxy, with hundreds of secondary routes and thousands of minor ones. Scouting new hyperspace routes was an incredibly dangerous task for an explorer. In many parts of the galaxy hyperlanes also involved periodic re-entry into realspace. This was so as to manually maneuver the ship towards the next hyper-point. It was in these spots that pirate raids were common. The Galactic Empire and other governments often sought to lessen this threat by constructing deep-space platforms at hyper-points. Mine fields and probe droids were also deployed.  But how do they actually work?  Are they merely coordinates? Is there some reason why in vastness of space there are so few of them?  &quot;Hundreds&quot; and &quot;Thousands&quot; is actually a pittance compared to the incredible size of the Galaxy. Why are they so rare and valuable?  From the description of :  During the height of the Sith Empire, two Republic hyperspace explorers stumbled upon the Sith mausoleum planet of Korriban by chance. The siblings, Gav and Jori Daragon, hoped to discover a lucrative new hyperspace route that would help them pay off their enormous debts.  How would one &quot;sell&quot; a new hyperlane?  It seems like once one other person has the coordinates, it diminishes in value exponentially as the coordinates are &quot;sold&quot; again.  Once someone knows the coordinates are safe, they can share or sell those coordinates.  In fact, it is baffling to why droids couldn't be used to the same thing the Daragons are doing to unlock virtually every possible route in a region in a relatively short period of time. Especially considered the rather lowly peg on the totem pole droids occupy in Star Wars culture.  Both sentient and expendable?  Seems like a good explorer to me. I can't remember a single point in movies or books where traveling by hyperspace is controlled in any way.  We don't see ships being stopped for tolls, we don't see anyone buying a new hyperlane or even really worrying about them - they just punch in some numbers and...
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It seems that it didn't actually protect them from any form of attack.   Every direct hit from a laser seemed to kill a stormtrooper outright, and a slice from a lightsaber cuts straight through.
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In Star Wars Episode III, before the battle on Mustafar, why didn't Obi-Wan admit to Anakin that it was his idea to hide in Padmé's ship to find him? His hate towards her would at least be forgiven, since Obi-Wan had no idea how the confrontation with Anakin would start or if Padmé died.
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If you've seen the premiere episode of Rebels, you will have seen Obi-Wan's warning message that he broadcast to Jedi throughout the galaxy in RotS. In this message he speaks cryptically &amp; warns of a "dark shadow" falling &amp; to avoid the temple &amp; await a "new hope".   Wouldn't it have been useful to inform the Jedi that their mortal enemy the Sith had returned? And specifically that Palpatine himself was a Sith? You'd assume that the majority of the Jedi who were not in the loop of the Council would be unaware of the existence of the Sith. Yoda mentions a few times that they should keep it under wraps. I think now would've been the time to reveal the truth. The more info the surviving Jedi have the better. Who knows if the likes of Kanan knows anything about the Sith's return! I find Obi-Wan's omission of this information bizarre.
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Couldn't Vader save his son and continue being a Sith Lord? Couldn't he have let Luke go and basically become the Emperor and have the Galaxy to himself? I don't think killing the Emperor to save your son will automatically convert you to the light side. Enlighten me.