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Question: Why are the turbo lasers on a star destroyer only on one side of the ship? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Sunflier@lemmy.world to c/star_wars@lemmy.world

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Doesn't that create a huge vulnerability in that the enemy can just go under the ship and shoot up? Seems like they could have at least put 1 or 2 on the underside.

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[–] teft@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And the imps would just rotate their ship.

It’s sort of like old naval battles where you try to out maneuver the other guy to get him in your gunsights while he can’t fire at you, just in 3d space instead of 2d ocean.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And the imps would just rotate their ship.

At first I was hesitant to recognize rotating ships as a valid answer, but then /u/Akagigahara reminded me of that episode from The Clone Wars where the Jedi did exactly that to make a "wall" to shield its fighters from a Seperatist ship. I had forgotten about that one. My bad!