Ahh a challenge Eh?
Tis on your on head for trying!
I believe it was HTTH, or maybe a diffrent one in the Thrawn Trilogy. In either event, Thrawn uses a tractor and captures Luke and his X-Wing with it. Luke escaped by firing topedoes into the tractor, and then hypered away, since the SC will be out of torps after it wastes the incoming craft, it'll be effectivly stopped.
Your example is not valid Luke was not making any manvories at the time, Second COTF stats that one Resonance Torp is good enough to VAP 1% of the DS Structor
By Volume alone thats 9 Star-Destroyer MK IIs there and its direct Heat Transfer, IE such as what the Judicator suffered when it stole Lando's Mole Miners and that was a hundred magintiues LESS that what a Resonance Torp has show the example of being able to do.
I beileive the reason they aren't used on fighters is because the beams and emitters are described as bulky, and are wasteful compared to laser cannons, LTLS, and other fighters. I've said this earlier, read my posts Bean. The men aboard the first DS were far too overconfident, and who says they didn't on the second one?
Straw-man, They where overconfident that the station was imprentrable to attack, Tell me do you think five fire ants would be able to kill you? No? Would you let them keep biting you? Impentrable or not they can still damage the DS and that costs money, What General in History would let a enemy kill some of his men THEN fight back?
If the DS Tractors and Tractors in General where capable of doing what you are saying they are why the heck don't they? Are they so Arrogent they did not even SHOOT at the Fighters? No? Then if Tractors could do what you say why did they not use them?
Its just another weapon if you describe it the way you did
Second, Why do no ISDs, escpialy any of those in the AA or Stackpole X-Wing Books do as you describe, If they could what would the point of TIE Fighters be? If ships where capable of just graping Fighters and holding them in place for the LTL and MTL to destroy why bother bulding them in the first place?
Because its simple THEY CAN'T, What your describing them being able to do is NEVER mentioned in the Movies, the EU, Drunken Lucus Ravings or the Pot induced fantasys that is KJA
As for pinning it in place, a quote from the EGWT: "A tractor beam is a powerful and invisible force field that can capture and move objects with great precision." I await your evidence that a tractor beam can't hold objects.
I awiate your evidance that they can capture fighter sized craft the way you describe as it sure as hell make the DS 1 attack dead in six seconds and Rouge Squadren would not have survived thier first engangment
KIll the crew member, the guy inside is only going to survive for as good as the internal dampening holds him still
if the ship is hit by something at .9c, its going to turn him into tomato sauce, but the ship will be unscratched
SW Internal Damping is amazingy good in case you have not noticed, 500G Turns are not even noticed by pilots and are done every day
Furthermore as they say, you have to hit it first...
It gets even better. In X-Wing Bacta War, an Empress class space station was able to use a gravity well generator and tractor beams to trap an SSD in place. The SSD was incapable of moving in any direction.
Straw-man, Thats a SSD not a Fighter, I don't care if they stoped a Moon thats a rather hard target to miss, please provide proof of them being able to catch manvoring Fighter sized Craft
*SSDs do not a Figher Make
The question is can Tractors acrruatly grap somthing as small as an X-Wing and hold it in place. NOT, SSDs, NOT Nebelion B's not anything else
FIGHTER SIZED CRAFT,
My proof
To prove this I submit the mear EXISTANCE of Rouge Squadren, no strech of the imagination would not explain why a Squadren with a Bounty on every memebers head plus a death mark would explain the numerous ISDs, Vics, Frigits and all those other craft with large Tractors that have never done this to them(Held them in place and let the Point Defense shoot the nice non-moving targets)
Also the First two mins of AHN where the Blocade Runner still manages to do just that RUN AWAY despite the fact there is an ISD on its tail and it only catchs up when the engies are cut off
The ISD's Casing Solo Later on ever hit him with a Tractor and stoped him did they?
The DS however managed to grap him when he was flying in a strait line RIGHT AT IT
TESB- None of the X-Wings or Transports there are graped by Tractors
Agian the MF is not grabed by any Tractors
In the escape from Cloud City they did not grap the MF in a Tractor
ROTJ- Desipte the fact of Tons of Fighters none where ever graped in Tractors
COPL-MF runs by two ISDs and no one manages to Tractor it nor the Frigate he shoots down into the Atomsphere
X-Wing Series-Never Tractors unless not manvoring and numerious types it would have helped
HTE,DFR,TLC-Luke is Caught because he is not manvoring, Numorous other times such as the Brigini raid where Tractoring ships in place would have helped never happens
Need I go on?