How do Star Destroyers deaccelerate?
Posted: 2004-04-22 09:36am
This may sound like a stupid question, but since all their thrusters seem to be pointed backwards, how do star destroyers and other SW-vessel deaccelerate?
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Probably just like modern spacecraft do. They turn around and burn with their main engines.FTeik wrote:This may sound like a stupid question, but since all their thrusters seem to be pointed backwards, how do star destroyers and other SW-vessel deaccelerate?
Case in point:Luke used his accelleration compensators to come to a dead stop in HttE.Knife wrote:Acceleration Compensators or a tech closely related might be utilized not only to protect the crew from massive G's for acceleration and deceleration but might also be used to help (read stop/slow in this instance) a vessel in high G manuvers.
Err-the same way they work on a modern jet aircraft? With the possible exception of replacing the material parts with particle shields?FTeik wrote: Any idea how reversethrust could work in space and on a vessel like a star destroyer?
And would explain why SW fighters maneuver like in space as if they were in an atmosphere.Knife wrote:Acceleration Compensators or a tech closely related might be utilized not only to protect the crew from massive G's for acceleration and deceleration but might also be used to help (read stop/slow in this instance) a vessel in high G manuvers.
How?YT300000 wrote:And would explain why SW fighters maneuver like in space as if they were in an atmosphere.Knife wrote:Acceleration Compensators or a tech closely related might be utilized not only to protect the crew from massive G's for acceleration and deceleration but might also be used to help (read stop/slow in this instance) a vessel in high G manuvers.
Gee really? I didn't know that. (What did I say before about contributing superfluous detail?)Spanky The Dolphin wrote:If anything, they'd behave less like atmospheric craft in space.
Why? He's right that they do behave like fighters in atmospheres (to certain extents) in space.. in the movies. I'm questioning why he assumes that Acceleration compensators somehow explain for this.Spanky The Dolphin wrote:That was directed at YT, not you, since it was clear that he didn't know.
Apologies for not clarifying.
It wouldn't. Nothing in space to reverse; that'd only work in atmosphere. Besides, its not like the Star Destroyer has intakes.FTeik wrote:Any idea how reversethrust could work in space and on a vessel like a star destroyer?
It would be the same ANY modern plane is doing... only that a ISD most likely use a forcefield to redirect it's engine thrust. If necessary by 180 °.Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Could they use some insane thrust vectoring to get thrust forward?
Indeed but afaik referse thrust does't work by switching the engines to reverse, instead there are deployable metal wings, which are used to divert engine exhaust forward as a deceleration aid. But it is primarly used for just that, deceleration, and the thrust is fed away into useless directions, mainly to the side. Braking comes from the fact that the engine is consuming larger amounts of air and drag is a side effect.Rogue 9 wrote:It wouldn't. Nothing in space to reverse; that'd only work in atmosphere. Besides, its not like the Star Destroyer has intakes.FTeik wrote:Any idea how reversethrust could work in space and on a vessel like a star destroyer?
Thrust reversers do in fact get some thrust foreward. The exhaust is vectored to something like 15 degrees foreward of sideways.Jon wrote:Indeed but afaik referse thrust does't work by switching the engines to reverse, instead there are deployable metal wings, which are used to divert engine exhaust forward as a deceleration aid. But it is primarly used for just that, deceleration, and the thrust is fed away into useless directions, mainly to the side. Braking comes from the fact that the engine is consuming larger amounts of air and drag is a side effect.
So um, yup- no reverse thrust in space in the sense we know of it.