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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Zefram: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb] Zefram, all the examples listed in the cross-sections book are old designs by Star Wars- maybe they fixed their heat problems- they sure managed to make hyperdrives smaller (judging by the ISD not having that giant hyperdrive sticking out the back like the Republic version and fighters not needing those rings). [/qb][/QUOTE]One of my biggest complaints about Star Wars is the pace of technological development. Each starship or starfighter class is supposedly an improvement on the last design. But how much technological advancement could you expect over a twenty year time span in a culture that has had faster-than-light space travel for thousands of years? You would think that technology would tend to plateau with the occasional quantum leap every few generations. As in-universe explanations go, the use of S-foils or large BOP-like wings for heat dissipation is actually a pretty good one. The only way to increase radiative heat transfer from an object in a vacuum is to either increase its temperature or to increase its surface area. [/qb][/QUOTE]As to Star Wars, yeah, the plateau in tech is pretty hard to fathom, unless the invention/ widespread implementation of Droids was relativly new thing before Ep I. (this kills all non-canon stories and video games like KOTOR though as thay use tech at least as advanced as the Empire's- even a thousand years prior!). It could be that older ships required very large crews to man and that "fighters" were much larger than what we're used to due to their command/control needs and large hyperdrives. It would also explain how the droid makers became such a political power. Also consider that nothing advances technology like a war- all sides rush prototypes into production, make refinments and then rush [i]those[/i] into production too in an attempt to out-tech the enemy. I dont buy the heat-dissipation angle on the KBOP- I'd rather it had something to do with cloaking the ship than [i]that[/i]. A larger surface area needed to cloak would also explain most Romulan designs having all that "wing" area. Rev, we did indeed bat the theory of "wings down to fire" on the KBOP but we disproved it: all the (ug) "larger" versions attack wings-up at least. The same threar showed that the wings can be down while in an atmosphere (during the KBOP raid on that Dominion base). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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