Re: More practical droids?
Posted: 2017-07-08 01:55pm
Or they already have a gazillion of the things so why not use them as long as they perform adequately?
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Repulsorlifts only work near a gravitational body, like a planet - if you wanted your astromech or personal jet pack to work in space, then you'd need a rocket-like system instead. We don't see battle droids being deployed in any significant number in space, (except for special-purpose ones, like the vulture or tri-wing droids), so this really wouldn't be much of a concern.Adam Reynolds wrote:Though on that specific issue, there likely is a problem with military grade small scale repulsorlifts. Why else would R2 and Jango Fett use thrusters and a jetpack respectively instead of repulsorlifts?
That would make sense for TPM, but from AotC on, we see that they're running production lines of the various battledroids, so I don't think that still applies. Of course, I guess you could argue that it'd be quite involved to retool those production lines for new designs, (though I'd argue that something that amounts to a droid head with a blaster on a small repulsorlift should be simpler to construct).Batman wrote: Or they already have a gazillion of the things so why not use them as long as they perform adequately?
Oh, my bad.