Star Wars universe does have lasers of all scales and power levels.
Yet literally no one uses them well on a personal scale.
The Jedi (and Sith for that matter) imbue it with a power of magical stone, and then…use it as a saber.
To balance this stupidity, stormtroopers, clones and droids all use slow, non-continuous energy blasters. With actual lasers, they could insta-kill any Jedi, but they cannot, because otherwise the movie wouldn’t exist.
Pictured are space-bombers. They drop gravity bombs… in space. Please stop talking about scientific accuracy in Star Wars.
Remember how in TESB, Han and Leia land in an asteroid crater/cave to hide and go out in the vacuum with nothing but an emergency airplane O2 mask thinking that’s OK? And gravity is earth normal gravity?
I’m pretty sure “a galaxy far far away” means the laws of physics are a bit different.
Also, let people enjoy things.
I remember seeing this shit in theaters and losing my mind over how stupid it was. It’s in the middle of an incredibly bad movie anyway which doesn’t help, but I just can’t imagine how many people had to be involved with this creative choice and how ar least some of them must have brought up how stupid dropping bombs like that is in a space fight and yet they still went with it. Dumbest shit ever.
but there’s gravity in space. surely that means there’s dropping stuff in space too!
Suspension of disbelief, or belief in suspension tech?
Start with land speeders… what holds them up? If you’re in a universe where it’s simple to make anti-gravity devices, why not use them to “fly” your big space ships too?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, they knew things we still do not, and apparently they did not know many things that we do.
During all my life, from all the movie, EU, and games, they have specialized ships to do bombardment missions,. Y wings, and A wings for surgicals.
The fucking scene threw me off so hard… it was so fucking stupid. Just like the rest of the movie eventually.