LAAT vs shuttles

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-08-19 07:32pm

How the hell would Artificial Gravity stop you from falling?

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-08-19 07:47pm

You sure they are 100KT? I'm going off memory here and I could have sworn they were 1 KT

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-08-19 07:58pm

Ender wrote:You sure they are 100KT? I'm going off memory here and I could have sworn they were 1 KT

I have the book right here.

"Each blast-effect missle concentrates its 100-kiloton explosion in a two-degree cone"

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-08-19 08:09pm

My bad.

Really need to get my books sent to me, as I can't provide evidence and keep screwing things up...

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2002-08-19 10:55pm

How the hell would Artificial Gravity stop you from falling?

That's what accelerator compensators are for. Once artificial gravity is on and you're standing in one spot, when the ship moves, the onboard computers controlling the artificial gravity compensates all of the movement so that objects remain stationary. That is why Obi-Wan and Luke were able to stand up when Han and Chewie were making all of those maneuvers in ANH. However, if the ship is hit or moved from something else, I don't think the compensators can fix that. So I guess they could do loops and barrel rolls all they want except for when they get hit. LOL

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2002-08-19 10:56pm

Actually, I don't know if they're called accelerator compensators or something else, but that's what they do.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2002-08-20 12:35am

Starfighters are equipped with inertial compensators, which negate g-forces when dogfighting. But if you pull too tight a turn, the compensator fails, and you feel part of the g-force. That coupled with artigrav can keep you upright.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-08-20 05:14am

Darth Yoshi wrote:
IRG CommandoJoe wrote:
They Can move quick and fast after all(They don't because Yoda and Co where watching the battle with the doors open and would have kinda got tossed out if they had starting manvoiring
Does artificial gravity work on a planet or near another gravity source? Because if it does, they shouldn't have problems maneuvering all over the place with people standing up.
According to Krytos Trap, the Lusankya was capable of keeping all it's prisoners, plus guards, plus equipment on the ceiling. Granted, that was an Executor class ship, and it was in a Micheal A. Stackpole novel, but still.

In Star By Star Han said that using artificial grav in a planets atmosphere was a bad idea and made the ride very hard, but that it had to be done to make hard maneuvers and rolls.