Thrawn's Revenge
Off Topic => Star Wars Discussion => Topic started by: Dane Kiet on March 01, 2008, 10:25:27 PM
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Why do the Sith have gravity-well technology when the "modern" galaxy has only just discovered it?
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They didn't :"only just" discover it. Many factions have had it for centuries. It was a hard thing to do, yes, but in that case the Sith got lucky.
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I thought the Republic couldn't figure it out and the Chiss, who lived in the Unknown regions, had no idea it existed either. And if this was merely lost tech, why didn't people remember that it was possible? (all this is based off OF, the book)
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i think it was that in old republic times they realized that you have to know where the ship is coming from and when its coming to make gravity wells effective. easier to shut stuff down at the source. maybe they just shut the project down and then it was rediscovered without that realization having being made yet
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Keep in mind the Chiss didn't know what droids were either. Just lost technology and diff priorities
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True. It was just something that was bugging me.
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thats what my thoughts on the matter have always been helps me sleep at night
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It's just Jorj Car'das, from Corillia said that the Rep scientists thought it was impossible... but if it was used in a famous conflict, how would they NOT know it was possible? My brain hurts :(
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i don't even get what you are asking
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They didn't believe they could generate enough energy to create the mass-shadow, or something like that. But, if it was already proven to be possible, then why did the Republic scientists believe the technology to be possible to create?
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maybe imperial explorers discovered hidden ancient technology that showed them how
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Oh, I know how the empire GOT the tech. I believe it was from the captured one thanks to Thrawn. What I don't get is how the Old Republic scientists thought that such technology was impossible to create when a glaring example of the fact that it was possible was staring them in the face!
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old republic had it first and the sith stole it from them then destroyed all of their ships that were capable of it.
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I meant the Old Republic from the Clone Wars, but that is even worse! The Republic had this technology and forgot they did! they have to be the worst scientists I have ever heard of!
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You forget that there is a 4000 year history gap
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I meant the Old Republic from the Clone Wars, but that is even worse! The Republic had this technology and forgot they did! they have to be the worst scientists I have ever heard of!
or the worst record keepers either way losing something like that. they probably should have died. new empires will form.
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Oh, I know how the empire GOT the tech. I believe it was from the captured one thanks to Thrawn. What I don't get is how the Old Republic scientists thought that such technology was impossible to create when a glaring example of the fact that it was possible was staring them in the face!
What glaring example?
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and if I remember right the old republic had the technology to prevent hyperspace travel. they just didn't have ships with large enought powersource to do. we have to remember that old republic didn't have a army and their fleet was small also. mostly made up from those consular ships from Ep I. So they could do it. but they just didn't.
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the power supply may have been the impossible part
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Good point, they never expected a war, which brought the need for gravity well generators, so they forgot about it. When the war came they either didn't care or still didn't remember. Palpatine probably remembered them the whole time and brought them back only once his empire was created.
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it probably was possible with the new supply source taken from mygeeto
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wasn't that used for the superlaser aboard DS?
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yes amoung other things. it was a sample to experiment with however. otherwise the super massive ships of the empire would not have been possible missing that power supply without anything short of massive nuclear reactors
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they already got massive reactors for their ships.
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i know but i am pretty sure those reactors contain the results from studying that power source from mygeeto
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I don't think so.
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i know but i am pretty sure those reactors contain the results from studying that power source from mygeeto
No, the reactors already being used in ships like the Venator were not very far off from those used in ISDs, just size and power
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Battlefront is NOT canon.
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certain elements are accepted, though, aren't they? i.e. dellso
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there are portions of battlefront that definatly aren't canon but a lot of it is.
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there are portions of battlefront that definatly aren't canon but a lot of it is.
no, most of it isnt, do you really think a jedi was being held prisoner in the death star?
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i doubt it. anything is possible i suppose