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Despite that fact I've seen a couple of times, almost in all episode that when a craft taking off several people just passing near by to it.

I thought the repulsors should have knocked them off their feet or something worse should have happened...but nothing.

Maybe fighter's repulsors are just so weak that a nearby person can be safe when it's activated?

Any idea, from anyone?

Can you rewrite that with proper grammar please? I don't know what exactly you're asking.

That is interesting. I remember in the Black Fleet Crisis books (yes, I know what peoples opinions of them are), where a Yevathan thrustship takes off without warning, and sends people hurtling away from it, and damages nearby ships.

Yeah but the Yevetha Ships were "undampened" what ever that means.

Even the very large ships in SW that have repulsorlifts don't generate that much dust and throw people around. Look at the landing scene of the Queen's starship in TPM. The ship did not generate much of a windstorm. It is entirely possible that larger craft have much larger and much more powerful repulsors, which would explain the quote from BFC quite easily, but the designs we have observed are too small to generate that kind of lift.

I guess it depends on how repulsorlifts work. Unless they're pushing directly against dust/sand grains, I don't think they have an exhaust like hovercraft do, so I wouldn't imagine the problem of blowing dust would be all that bad.

Anyone have a good explanation from an ICS or vehicle manual as to how repulsors work?

greenmm wrote:I guess it depends on how repulsorlifts work. Unless they're pushing directly against dust/sand grains, I don't think they have an exhaust like hovercraft do, so I wouldn't imagine the problem of blowing dust would be all that bad.

Anyone have a good explanation from an ICS or vehicle manual as to how repulsors work?

Technobabble. Lots and lots of technobabble.


The best we can do now is make observations about them. For example, certain kinds only provide a few meters of lift, some provide kilometers. And, they can be miniurized into something the size of a cantaloupe.

A repulsorlift isn't really a push.

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:A repulsorlift isn't really a push.

They also call them 'anti gravs' ya know.

Repulsorlifts aren't atmospheric drives. In fact, they work in vacuum.

Repulsorlifts are GRAVITY-based drives, they need a nearby mass with gravity (IE: a planet) to function.

The repulsors push against the planets gravity pull, allowing them to float.

IG-88E wrote:Repulsorlifts aren't atmospheric drives. In fact, they work in vacuum.

Repulsorlifts are GRAVITY-based drives, they need a nearby mass with gravity (IE: a planet) to function.

The repulsors push against the planets gravity pull, allowing them to float.

Exactly.
The reason why the thrustship blasted those people away because it most likely wasn't using a repulsor, but an atmospheric drive or some such thing.

Jim Raynor wrote:Can you rewrite that with proper grammar please? I don't know what exactly you're asking.

Hehe...

Sorry about the bad english!

Captain tycho wrote:

IG-88E wrote:Repulsorlifts aren't atmospheric drives. In fact, they work in vacuum.

Repulsorlifts are GRAVITY-based drives, they need a nearby mass with gravity (IE: a planet) to function.

The repulsors push against the planets gravity pull, allowing them to float.

Exactly.
The reason why the thrustship blasted those people away because it most likely wasn't using a repulsor, but an atmospheric drive or some such thing.

Could an "undampened" respulsor work against the gravity produced by the people and the4 ships?

Doubtful, since they emit so little gravity as to be nonexistant.

Captain tycho wrote:

IG-88E wrote:Repulsorlifts aren't atmospheric drives. In fact, they work in vacuum.

Repulsorlifts are GRAVITY-based drives, they need a nearby mass with gravity (IE: a planet) to function.

The repulsors push against the planets gravity pull, allowing them to float.

Exactly.
The reason why the thrustship blasted those people away because it most likely wasn't using a repulsor, but an atmospheric drive or some such thing.

The ship used pulse-lifters. They created huge amounts of noise and caused "Ripples of atmospheric distortion" which "rolled out of the scalloped depression in its hull."

Not only did it kill people but they also damaged several nearby ships.