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How do people in Star Wars stay glued to the floor in their ships? Does the majority of the vessels have gravity platings, or gravity generators?

Generators IIRC.

IG-88E wrote:Generators IIRC.

They apperently have the ability to use grav plating too. In the Kytros trap, the tunnel that oriented people from the prison complex to the ship had a twisting orientation of gravity. Would that not imply a plating instead of a bunch of generators arrayed around the tunnel?

Possibly, or the generator can adjust where the gravity is coming from.

IG-88E wrote:Possibly, or the generator can adjust where the gravity is coming from.

Possibly.

IG-88E wrote:Possibly, or the generator can adjust where the gravity is coming from.

More likely it's tied to the inertial compensator.

Both the acceleration compensator and the artificial gravity unit would be extremely similar in fuction. The former must set up an environment in the ship in which the net force acting on the people inside is zero, and it must apply this effect dynamically and with extreme precision. That's why the idea of "lag time" in the Star Trek Technical Manual is so unfeasible. If the ship accelerates forward with its impulse drive, delay time would kill the crew. After accelerating backward due to the lag time, the inertial dampeners would kick in and shove our poor crewmembers back forward with a force equal to the output of the impulse engines. At stellar-travel rates, the Enterprise walls would be painted red.

D'oh! Forgot about the gravity generators, and the Edit button isn't showing up on my post. Anyway, they essentially do the same thing the acceleration compensator does, only in a different direction (in this case, downward).

So, basically an intertial dampening field for the effect of gravity? Good idea!

Inertial. Feraking tpyos.

Hmm...I'm not sure if this would really work...but here's a thought. Maybe they could make "real" gravity by compressing metals so much that they could pack the mass of an entire world into the bottom of the hull of a ship so that it would have the same gravity as the world. So everything would be weighed down by the bottom of the ship's gravity...although having fighters leave the bay would be harder than usual...lol. And yeah, I know this is basically impossible...but it's just a thought about overcoming the "you can't really make artificial gravity" thing.

Gravitational force between two objects is proportional to the product of their masses, this is true, but it is also inversely proportional to the distance between those two objects' centers of gravity. So let's say you compress a bunch a metal so small that the mass of Earth can fit into a meter cubed of space and slap that under a crewman's feet.

He'll be flattened, and not just because he was wearing a red shirt.

Aha...

That sounds like it would work to me. I'm surprised there is no
official explanation given before.