And why are they all upside ? Space battle in star wars don’t take full advantage of the verticality
The enemy’s gate is down
Because there is gravity in space.
“orbit” is just what we call the sweet spot between moving fast enough to not hit the planet or mooon or whatever and not so fast that you escape it’s gravity (even though it still affects you. just not enough to make kissy noises as you fall back to it.)
But the ships would still be continuing on their current trajectory even when destroyed. Gravity doesn’t affect them more just because their reactor blew up…
Without the acceleration of the engines the gravity well takes over.
Where are the Moon’s engines?
Yeah that never sat well with me but I could imagine some kind of reason for a the Super Star Destroyer falling out of orbit.
Don’t get me started on the arching fire of turbo lasers and the way they abused light speed in the latest trilogy.
I’ve given up on thinking of Star Wars as sci-fi and now just consider it WWII in space.
IIRC, it’s actually the Vietnam War in space.
