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They also say in E IV that the death star is well defended against a full fleet, but that a small group of fighters should be able to break through more easily.
by Kihashi 10y ago
They also say in E IV that the death star is well defended against a full fleet, but that a small group of fighters should be able to break through more easily.
- VLM 10y agoIts a spoiler but a small group of fighters DID get thru the planetary defenses and none of the large capital ships got thru, it wasn't entirely theoretical. Its a classic surface area to volume ratio thing combined with scalability and miniaturization limits, in that its always the case that the smallest thing will get really close to the larger thing while it quickly takes its losses, and if that's in weapons range the larger thing will get scratched up a bit, and if the smaller things have a secret killer weapon or strategy, they win. Thats just how swarm attacks are. Operations theory and all that. You can do graphs of differential equations of loss rates in a very abstract sense to show it always turns out like this.
- ge96 10y agoIt was also nuts in (EP VI I think) when the Super Star Destroyer crashes into the Death Star and nothing really happens to the Death Star.