Star Wars General

In both timelines, tatooine basically becomes abandoned after the death of Jabba and the collapse of the hutt cartels.

@09MurphyM  
That was the only thing going for it, to be honest.

A comic store opened near our place today and we decided to check it out. I bought a B-Wing model that had a model of it’s prototype.

@Meanlucario  
X-wing? From ffg?  
Or a bigger one?

@Communist Starlight  

@Meanlucario  
Cool.

@Meanlucario  
That’s so cool!  
Although, actually, speaking of x-wing, does anyone here play it?  
The tabletop game, I mean.

@Communist Starlight  
I wish.

@Darth Prime  
What do you mean?

@Communist Starlight  
I’m more into characters than ships, personally.

@Communist Starlight  
I mean I wish.  
It’s pretty self explanatory.

@Meanlucario  
They had those brand new like 20 years ago. How much were they asking for?

@Goku Black  
$15.

@Meanlucario  
Pretty cheap, considering that they don’t make these anymore.

@Goku Black  
Had a feeling. I decided to get it since I’m a sucker for early designs.

I’ve been pondering the old “Galaxy Class vs. Star Destoryer” debate and I’ve realized something.
 
Everyone always brings up that the canonical power outputs of the two classes is the most important reason why the SD would beat the GC. But there is an even better reason why Star Wars has the edge here.
 
Because the Star Trek universe seems to have forgotten that fucking carriers exist.
 
What’s that phaser going to do when you’re being swarmed by fighters, bombers, interceptors, and troop landing transports before you’re even in range of the Destoryer?

@Zincy  
I don’t know phasers seem pretty accurate they’d probably tear through TIEs with no issue.

@Darth Prime  
How would they be designed to work well on capital ships and fighters?

@Zincy
 
@Meanlucario
 
@Darth Prime  
At around 16 seconds in this video, small groups of ships got phasered out of existance by the Galaxy Class. TIEs would be fucked…

@Background Pony #5AD3  
That sounds like BS.

@Meanlucario  
How is it BS when the clip shows it?

@Background Pony #5AD3  
The same way the Suncrusher can be BS even if it’s in an official book.

@Meanlucario  
Noooo, the suncrusher was bs cause it could do what 4 superweapons did and put it all in a fighter.
 
Targeting computers in ST are alot more accurate at tracking with phasers. Criticising it is like saying “Yeah, how dare they use homing missiles on jets, they should just be fighting with bullets the whole time despite an easier alternative being avaliable…”

@Background Pony #5AD3  
Moreso how it’s suspicious that phrases are effective both against capital ships and fighters, which makes it sound more powerful than it should be.

@Meanlucario  
The principle behind Star Wars weapons is they’re stuff straight out of WWII. Like Turbolasers are the big naval cannons you’d find on battleships. Which are great for pounding targets with raw damage but utterly terrible at tracking fast moving fighters and for that you’d use flak guns (or their Star Wars equivalent).
 
But everything changes when you replace those weapons with laser beams that can track fast movers while not sacrificing any of the punch.
 
The principle behind phasers is just plain more advanced than anything in the second world war.
 
@Zincy  

 
Star Trek: Discovery did not forget this. unfortunately…