Fridge Logic

[Kyrian007]

Well, as far as practical and realistic depiction... I've always thought that Starfury from Babylon 5 was fairly well done. But I'm not one to nitpick unimportant details, and I'm a fan of the A-Wing personally because in the X-Wing series I'm freaking untouchable in one.

But that's coming from someone who firmly believes there is no such thing as a "plot hole" in fiction. Because any such "plot hole" can be easily explained as "that's what happened in the universe that the author created, that's how it works there." Or the author can give the Xena explanation "any time you notice something like that... a wizard did it."

 

[sageoftruth]

Basically how I feel every time someone translates an ancient forgotten language written on a tomb wall and it happens to rhyme.

 

[Vanilla ISIS]

I've looked it up and the alphabet doesn't appear in any of the movies, just in the Expanded Universe stuff.
Apparently, Episode 8 will be the first movie to reference it.

to put it bluntly, the alphabet is fanfiction.

 

[CaitSeith]

There is no canonical reason. The ships were named before anyone came up with an in-universe Basic alphabet.

Deal with it.

 

[Dalisclock]

It's wierd. I've finally gotten around to watching the Clone Wars series and I keep wondering if it was ever explained why all the clones talk like Jango. I know they're all clones of him, but last I checked accents don't pass through genes. And Boba doesn't talk like that anyway(unless they retconed it for the next re-release of eps 3-6).

Was it ever explained in universe how that worked? Aside from, now they only need to hire one voice actor for all the clones?

 

[maninahat]

They have air intakes because they are designed to be able to fly in space and in atmosphere, simple as that. Just because we rarely see them fly in atmosphere doesn't mean that they can't fly in atmosphere.

Sure, but what do the air intakes do.

Like, jet engines have air intakes because they use the oxygen in the air for combustion, but these spacecraft presumably don't have jet engines. The most likely option is that they're cooling vents, but then, that makes only slightly more sense because they won't work in space flight (there's nothing to pass through the vents) whereas external radiators would work in both atmospheric and space flight, making them the clearly superior option if cooling is an issue.

Dalisclock has it, I think, it's quite clearly because starfighters in star wars behave like aircraft and therefore it makes sense visually that they (some of them anyway) are designed to look like aircraft, it just makes no sense in terms of actual physics when you think about it.

To get into the nitty gritty, some conceptional engines such as SABRE [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)] are designed to alternate between atmospheric and space flight, switching between air intakes and internal liquid oxygen when necessary. Of course, there is nothing to say that conventional rocket or jet engines are the basis for Star Wars fighters. TIE fighters supposedly run on Ion engines, whose real life counterparts are terrible at providing things like the rapid acceleration required to be effective for dog fighting.

 

[Catnip1024]

Oh, as an actual attempt at fridge logic:

In the Phantom Menace, they disable the droid army by destroying the command ship. Why would anybody design a droid army to only work online? Destruction of the command ship aside, your army would still be rendered useless by certain weather conditions or going underground.

Unless it was a games company, of course.

That might actually explain a lot.