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S2 E12: Let's Talk Ships · Most Things Kenobi - A Star Wars Podcast

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It's most things Kenobi, an elegant podcast for a more
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civilized fandom. Hi everyone, welcome to another
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episode of Most Things Kenobi, a podcast about Obi Wan Kenobi and
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all things Star Wars. I'm your host, Leanne.
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And I'm your host, Lauren. In this episode is all about
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ships because no, not shipping Obi Wan with anyone.
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We mean like actual physical starfighters * destroyers and
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everything in between. Those kind of ships.
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Obi Wan is in some of these ships.
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He is, yes. And what's fun is in in the
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various stories that have been written between Lauren and I of
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Star Wars esque theme themes, we've looked up blueprints and
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cross sections and schematics of all these different ships.
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And Oh my God, I love looking at these things.
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I really do the detail inside these ships of like what goes
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on. Yeah, is.
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Really impressive and the fact that people have detailed them
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to the level that they they have, I mean it's.
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This shit's crazy man. This is a fake world of fake
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universe, fake ships and people know every single detail about
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them. It's incredible.
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I have to say some of these ships are run smoother than the
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some of the places I've worked for in my lifetime.
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These are more organized and well thought out and seem to.
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I have questions though about some of these.
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Yeah, 'cause like the, the positioning of like the barracks
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versus where they have the, you know, the main warfare versus
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where the command center is. I, I just, I have a few
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questions. I want to get your opinion on
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some of these. It's interesting that you
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mentioned that 'cause it's actually talked about in the
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Rogue One novelization a little bit.
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Yeah. It it for the Death Star they
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talk about like like radiation exposure is mentioned in that
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novelization and it's kind of interesting.
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It's like made pretty clear that the Empire doesn't care that
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they might be making stormtroopers I'll because of
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how close their barracks are to their their reactor.
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That's why that's what I wanted to ask you about, especially
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with the Star Destroyer, if, if we were to go by this schematic
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that we're going to talk about why they, they have positioned
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certain things in certain places.
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So I, I compiled a list of the different ships that we can talk
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about. We definitely want to talk about
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Star Destroyer, Millennium Falcon, the X Wing, and then
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like the different ships that Jedi are in.
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There's also like TIE Fighter. But then I thought about the
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Ghost too, so we we can see where we get to in this long
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line of stuff. It might have to be a Part 2
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eventually maybe. I was going to say it could be a
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series. There's so many ships to pick
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from it's crazy, but the the Star Destroyer is so iconic.
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It is and. That's from the very beginning.
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It was like one of the first designs.
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It was actually designed by Colin Cantwell, who is a he
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worked on the 2001 Space Odyssey.
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He did a a lot of like concept design for ships, for Star Wars,
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for a New Hope especially. But if you Google it, you're
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like, I was trying to find out who invented like who designed
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the Star Destroyer. Of course, grand buff Odeal
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vacant. I'm like, no, I mean in real
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life. They haven't.
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They haven't figured out in the Star Wars universe, no, but for
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real. I was like, no, I want the real
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human being who designed it. I thought that was funny.
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Did you find out who that person was?
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The real human. Yeah.
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Yeah, it was Colin Cantwell. OK, OK.
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Yeah. If you by the way, if you guys
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hear lots of fidgeting, I'm holding my dog.
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She's having a hard time and she like cannot sit still right now
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so. She is our third host this week.
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It's not. Clarence, it's Luna, silent,
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smelly host for. This season, we don't need to.
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We don't need to call her out like that.
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I'm sorry, darling, You need a little bath.
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She had a bath, but it's been raining, so she went out and she
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got muddy. So there.
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OK, She's a lady. OK, She.
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Is. A fine lady.
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So we a fine lady, should we start with the Star Destroyer?
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Yes, she is a fine lady. She's a.
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Fine lady. So so perfectly segue into Yacht
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Rock. Oh, she's a fine girl.
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What a Good Wife she would be, Brandy.
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Well, I wanted to ask you too, do you want to include the links
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in our? I think we should.
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Our show notes to these schematics that we talked about,
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so you guys can follow along with us if you want to.
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We'll have those linked up for you.
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For sure because this is this is impressive.
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The Star Destroyer it it the schematic that I'm looking at is
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actually from Deviant art. If if you all are familiar, it
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actually has the command, the chain of command for the
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different departments within the Star Destroyer.
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It this is a Qawati Dr. yard Corellian class imperial two
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class Star destroyer. I mean part of the second heavy
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squadron of the third system's assault force.
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I mean, this is so detailed, yes so.
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Detailed surface war warfare component.
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Yeah, that's awesome. OK, so this thing total crew
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37,085, nine thousand officers, enlisted crew is 27,850.
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That's insane that's it's a city.
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It's and that's just one of them.
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I mean, I guess it's when you think of the fact that this
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isn't just like one planet supplying the amount of manpower
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behind these things. It's an entire Galaxy.
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I can see how they got away with having so many, but Oh my God,
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there's so many. It's daunting to think that the
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Empire had this many fucking people just at their disposal.
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I know that's why they had no respect for life.
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Yeah, they just used and recruited and whatever.
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It's insane. Anyway, I always wanted to know
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where is everybody in this giant ship and where where do they
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separate themselves? Like where do the upper class,
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you know, the first officers, the the main command, those
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those who are giving the commands, however many there are
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in this 37,000 that are some odd amount of people that are on
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this ship. Like they are separated from
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where the the army barracks, the ground logistics, the flight
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mess, the flight gallery, they are separated.
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So all of that like the AT, the AT, ATS or ATATS, depending on
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what you say, all the TIE fighters, the launchers, the
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logistics Bay, the flight crew, the shuttle Bay, the vehicle
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storage, that's all in like the nose of the ship, which we know
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because we see them come in and out in the movies, right?
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And then way in the back up above the solar ionization
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chamber, which I would love to see an actual engineer grade
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this, you know what I. Mean, I know.
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Yeah. Seriously.
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Yes, Yes. Back here there's all the things
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you'd find in a very nice hotel. There's services and stores,
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supply, main mess hall, laundry, sick Bay, Mortuary, lifeboats
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for the the main water tank. You know, in case you get in
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trouble. I think it's crazy that they
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even have a fucking Mortuary. You think they just throw them
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out the the back because they don't give a shit?
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Unless it's like some dignitary on the ship, maybe.
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Right, right. Well, and like back in the
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1800s, I'll say they wouldn't keep a Mortuary on ship.
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They would actually, you know, like do a service and then put
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the body overboard because it wasn't safe to keep on board.
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Granted, I don't know what the Navy does nowadays 'cause that's
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more of like our, our modern Navy, that's more of the
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equivalent of whatever this is, you know, with Star Wars.
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But I do love that there's an artificial son on board, right?
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I think it's great. There's a lot of recycling
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involved. Yeah, well, they have to.
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There's waste recycling, waste processing and ejection.
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That's where I figured, you know, that would be one in one
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with the Mortuary, but I guess not.
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Life support stores Formal audience hall.
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Yeah, you. Know.
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Isn't, isn't that on Vader's? Isn't that Vader's room?
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That's what I always thought. Yeah, they on on Vader's non,
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non Vader ships. It's like an audience hall, but
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for Vader. It's his.
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It's his. Yes, the diva.
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Supporters self yes. This is where Chronic wishes he
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could have been but we'll never get.
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That's the thing, a person like Chronic will know exactly where
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he is in a pecking order based on where he's living on the
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ship. And they're all in the back.
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So this makes it, this is what I want to ask you.
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All of these 4 decks, right? The intelligence center, combat
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operations center, ground operation, all the, all of the
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decision making things are right out front.
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You think that would be like, does that make sense to you?
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If you're shooting at the ship like you're an enemy to the
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Empire, you're you're trying to aim.
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They have deflector Shields, yes, but they're in such a
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vulnerable spot. Yes and no.
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I and I've thought of this too, but I think it's because it's
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space you can attack from any side.
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Oh my God, you're right. I'm not thinking like space.
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I'm thinking like you're on the water.
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You're, you know. Right.
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Like a ship in the sea? Sure.
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Or if you're a vehicle, you're driving towards something so
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you're shooting at the most vulnerable spot, which that's
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not the case here. One, there is a moment and and
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so these Star Destroyers are definitely the more recent
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version of what they were using in Clone Wars, right.
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We know that Clone Wars, there's an episode where Ahsoka tips the
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bottom half of the ship up to defend, I think their squadrons
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trying to return or whatever she said.
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And that was like the most fortified part of the ship,
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which I thought was interesting. That is interesting.
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Maybe it's 'cause there's no windows, but I mean, if there's
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going to be windows in outer space, you know, it's like a
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tempered glass that can handle the pressure and all that stuff.
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So I don't know it's and especially since since the
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artificial sun is at the bottom of the.
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Ship. You would think that you want to
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be as far away from that as possible.
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Right. So, but I, I suppose because
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it's, yes, you're more likely to have the beginning of the
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conflict be nose to nose after that first pass, you know, with
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ships, every side of the Star Destroyer I think is, I won't
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say it's vulnerable in the sense that it would be penetrable, but
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it would be vulnerable to attack from any side then.
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Yeah, I would guess. Especially from the bottom.
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If you're Anakin Skywalker, you'd run a ship on the bottom
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half of your hull and find a way in upside down.
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Or back where the waste recycling and ejection, that's
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where Han Solo hangs out. He hangs out in the garbage.
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So which is also brilliant. It is.
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Really smart, actually. Like Leia said, just float away
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with the rest of the garbage. That's it and it and it worked.
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And it really drives home the fact that really good pilots
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need to know every single one of these ships, the insurance and
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outs, to know their vulnerabilities, where to go in
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the event you get kind of cornered.
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Right. Or if you're attacking, why
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waste your energy in the section of the ship that's crew
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quarters, right? You're going to want to, you're
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going to want to go for the computer parts or wherever the,
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I don't know. I'm talking like, I know this
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thing, but I'm just looking at this schematic and it's like
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there's only so many vulnerable parts because assuming the
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protective shield is down, I'm probably not gonna try and aim
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at the bridge galley. You know, the crew quarters,
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command departments, naval inventory, all that.
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Nah. Yeah, I mean, you're gonna want
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to take out the parts that can fight back at you first or
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propel the ship forward. Yes.
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But then after that, you might as well go after like the TIE
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fighter bays or you know, any kind of assault craft launching
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Bay that could then turn into one-on-one combat with smaller
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ships. So I don't know.
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I think that you know what really strikes me actually about
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looking at this schematic is it really reminds me of a cutaway
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schematic my mom used to have of the Titanic.
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Oh, Oh yeah. And that it was broken down
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into, you know, like the engine rooms at the bottom and the
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cargo and then, you know, like the lower class, what do they
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call? I can't remember what the like,
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but first class is, you know, at the top and they have suites and
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views and they have balconies and the lower the ship you go,
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the less your ticket cost. But you had no privacy, no view.
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At a certain point they didn't have a windows, you know.
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So this reminds me of that because all the like Vader is at
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the top and the top, like Tarkin would also be like at the top.
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Then there'd be officers who have a slightly better position
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and then just crew quarters. And then the stormtroopers have
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an even worse location, like further down in this ship so.
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I don't even think they come in contact whatsoever with the
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people who are giving them commands.
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They're so far removed and that's probably how they want
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it. They want the workhorses along
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with the artillery, meaning the supplies, the ammunition,
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whatever kind of ground transportation.
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If they 'cause they have those ships in here, I just the size
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of this thing. I know they.
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Have ships. You know how huge at ATS are?
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Right. And there's like 30 on board.
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Yeah, and ships that can carry them, it's just insane.
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But they're all so far far removed.
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It's aye, I don't know, I think it would be its own community
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and they probably talk shit about everyone else and their
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balconies and their, their, the guest suites and you know, they
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probably have super nice kitchen areas with different food than
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they prepare in the mess hall down in the barracks.
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You know what I'm saying? Yeah, for sure, I'm sure.
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Crazy. It's really cool.
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It's really cool to see it and. To see.
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To see the scale like the vastness is pretty mind blowing.
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It literally is a floating city. And I googled how many star
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destroyers did the empire have. They had 25,000 star destroyers.
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So, OK, so in this one specifically, if we take this
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for Canon, OK, total crew 37,000 in one times that by how many?
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They have an estimate here how much crew they they said roughly
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925,000,000 crew members. I mean, that's supporting the
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Empire. Yeah, that's fucking crazy.
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No wonder the rebellion felt so overwhelmed.
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Really. I mean, that drives this home.
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It's I fear is a powerful driver, you know what I'm
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saying? Yeah.
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And the money and the backs that they built these off of.
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It's I mean, think about Andor. They were just putting together
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the they didn't know it, but they were just putting together
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the damn Death Star pieces. Yeah.
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So from the most famous Imperial ship that holds 40 some 1000
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people, we're going to the most iconic Rebellion ship that holds
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one person and one Droid, the X wing.
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I think everyone who saw original Star Wars at least has
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a very special place in their heart for X wings.
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I love X wings. I love them, I love their
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design. I love how the the wings can
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compress and then expand. Yes.
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Do you know who created that? Like you did the Star Destroyer?
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I didn't mean to put you on the spot.
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It was also Colin Cantwell was the real designer, but.
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Oh, that's amazing that he came up with all this.
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I think he did all the ships from the original movie.
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A lot of these designs take for instance the X wing and the TIE
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fighter, more so the TIE Fighter.
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How the fuck do these even fly? They make no sense.
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I don't know. It makes no sense
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aerodynamically at all, at all. But.
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I love them. I do too.
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It says here the X wing achieves its remarkable maneuverability
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through a combination of three factors.
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Different thrust from its four fusal ion engines.
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High mass electromagnetic. I can't read that cause the
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font's too small, so I'm gonna it's really what is it?
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What does it say? I don't know, I was trying to
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read that blurb earlier and I was like, I don't understand any
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of the words that I just well. As it turns out, it has a higher
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It has a greater survivability rate compared to the TIE
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Fighter, obviously. It doesn't surprise me.
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Yeah. And think about how the Empire
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doesn't care. It's all about efficiency and it
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doesn't care about loss of life. That's it.
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And the the rebellion needed to keep every ship running like
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they had their stuff slapdashed together with spit and gum.
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You know, stuff. Which is very much how pilots
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were in World War 2. I I've seen so many
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documentaries, but they talk about the pilots would land like
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they had really short lifespans in World War 2.
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They'd land, they'd clean out the cockpit of whatever was
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going on there. They'd have broken glass and
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shit like that. They'd patch up the wings and
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they'd take off again. It was not like, oh, we'll get
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you a new wing. It was like, Nope, stick
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something on there, send it back out.
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And that's how the Rebellion had to be as well.
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It's so iconic and I love that they have a red, red,
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blue-green, yellow, gold, I guess not yellow, but they all
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have like their own color squadrons.
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Yeah. And I think the most my favorite
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part of an X wing are the little, the pointer, the pointy
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things. What are they called?
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It's a laser firing hip. Thank you.
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Yeah. But yeah, the little the lasers
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that stick out in the side. So there's a lot going on in a
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very small ship. We've got a lot of torpedoes, we
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got a lot of laser cannons, We got a lot of air valves.
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And then there's there's a little astromech.
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Hey, he is up there. He's as important, if not more
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important than the pilot as we've seen many times in the
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messiness of Anakin and well, any Jedi I guess who isn't a
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star fighter that requires an astromech Droid, They often are
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in a bind. And I was thinking about not
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specifically an X wing, but like a starfighter in general.
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An X wing is a type of starfighter, but I'm thinking of
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like the starfighter of that Obi Wan and Anakin had in Revenge of
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the Sith and most of the Clone Wars.
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Yeah. They had those little, they were
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like released, they were like little crabs and they ate away
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at the wiring. Remember, they went all over the
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the exoskeleton of the ship. Like the buzz droids?
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Is it a buzz Droid and they either way?
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In Revenge of the Sith, at the beginning, the ones that get all
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over the ship, the the starfighters that yeah, I think
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it's a buzz Droid. OK.
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I think Ahsoka saves Anakin in the Clone Wars because his goes
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down because of one and he he like gets knocked out.
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And you were talking about the vulnerabilities of, like, the
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Star Destroyer, and those things would be menacing to a smaller
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ship like this because all of the wiring is so compact, like
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intestines, and it's all right in that one spot.
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It's not spread out like you know, it's a compact ship.
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And the hull. The hull itself is probably way
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thinner than the skin of a * destroyer, so one shot could
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totally destroy a fighter. And that's why we see like a TIE
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fighter, one shot to that panel on the side and boom, they're
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spinning out. One or two shots to an X wing,
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they're spinning out. To be a pilot of one of these
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things, I don't know, man, it takes a lot.
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And and you think about Luke using the Force.
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You know. Just to aim man, it's
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impressive. Surrounded by all this wiring
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and electrical radioactive stuff.
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Yeah. The X wing is kind of special
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too because it's it's got a hyperdrive.
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It does. Yeah, because TIE fighters are
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short range fighters, as Obi Wan says.
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And then the Jedi starfighters had to have the light, the ring
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speed ring, the hyperspace rings to take them through hyperspace.
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And the X wing, it has it built into the ship.
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And the other thing too, about this shit is that there's a
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pitch and roll control that the pilots use their feet for.
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So they're like, yeah, what? Like both hands and feet are
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busy. Plus, you know, you have to.
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I have an Astro mic helping out. It's like, holy shit, I it's
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like playing the drums. How do you do it?
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So what is more technical, a Star Destroyer or an A smaller
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starfighter? Or are they equal depending on
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perspective? Because it's much, there's a lot
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going on in the * Destroyer and it's really spread out, but you
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have this compact powerhouse with all of this mechanical
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knowledge required. Just I don't know.
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It's crazy, it seems very overwhelming, I would not be
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able to do it. Especially Luke.
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Just like pops into the rebellion out of nowhere and he
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is able to fly it X wing after flying just one of those
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skyhoppers. Sorry what?
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I didn't know those skills transferred all.
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Right. Well, I mean, Ray was able to
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just do it all. Yeah, I guess with the force you
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could fly anything, maybe. That's it.
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That's what I'm going to say. No technical knowledge needed.
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Did you know that the X wing is equipped Equipped with life
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support sufficient for one week in space?
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Air, water, food and life process support equipment are
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packed into the area behind the pilot's seat.
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Interesting. So you have a whole little
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refrigerant mini refrigerator behind you.
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I bet it's like that. Gross food from a tube that you
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see in Andor though where you just.
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Yeah. Drink your nutrients.
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The meal bar, you know, it's just.
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Like if you do a good job, you get flavor that's.
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Where Kool-aid packets came from the X wing.
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Dude, I want to see Mr. Kool-aid like bash through the wall and.
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He's he's coming through the wall of the Imperial Star
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Destroyer into Vader's throne room.
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Oh yeah. Oh my God.
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Somebody draw this please. Oh my God, I never thought of
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that. I'm like crying.
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I'm laughing so hard. So you we were talking about the
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hyperdrive booster rings for the one, the little star, the tinier
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star fighters that Anakin and Obi Wan and a soca flu.
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And so we'll talk about that next.
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And we have the schematic up for that.
27:19
It actually has a schematic for the hyperdrive booster ring that
27:23
that they needed. Oh.
27:25
It does, yeah. That's.
27:26
Cool, this ship confuses me more so than the X wing even though
27:31
it's like X wing adjacent right? It needs an astromech, but it
27:35
has panels on the side that mimic a TIE fighter.
27:39
Right. And it has like the weird
27:43
U-shaped thing that the Millennium Falcon has.
27:48
We see that often in Star Wars. Oh yeah, like the pronged nose.
27:53
Kind of, yeah. I don't understand that.
28:00
I don't either, but you have to remember.
28:04
Which it's fates well. What the?
28:07
Yes but also like Star Wars also doesn't remember this ever so I
28:10
guess maybe you don't have to remember.
28:12
Space is a vacuum. There is no friction.
28:15
Yeah, I've I've me and friction are like this.
28:19
I know. And like they, they use their
28:22
ships like the way Star Wars films battles and stuff and
28:26
there there's explosions and shit like there's no sound in
28:29
space, you wouldn't hear explosions.
28:31
So I guess we can't really rely on reality too much with that.
28:35
But I don't know, I it's weird. Are they torpedoes?
28:41
What are they? Laser cannons on each side of
28:45
the inside of the nose. So maybe just because it looks
28:49
cool, it just looks. Good.
28:51
I'm not saying it doesn't. I love the way that Anakin and
28:54
Obi Wan's look like Anakin's is yellow because he wanted it to
28:59
be yellow to mimic his his little race that he did on
29:03
Tatooine back when he was a kid like he.
29:05
So that's adorable. Asked for it to be yellow, which
29:08
is what a what a child at heart. I it's.
29:12
Cute and you can see like in this schematic, there's a hint
29:17
of their open circle that they have on their their star
29:21
destroyers. I don't know are they called
29:23
Star Destroyers in Clone Wars? I can't remember but and he's
29:27
got hatch marks on the side for like the ships he's shot down,
29:31
which I think is really I like. The personal touches for sure.
29:36
Yeah, these are made for intense firepower, compact light and the
29:44
most agile. But it says here that
29:48
overheating was a problem. I bet they overheated a lot with
29:55
Obi Wan and Anakin inside there. Girl, you ain't lying.
30:03
The minute they sat down or just burst into flames.
30:08
God, you're getting me today. I'm trying to be all technical
30:14
over here because this. Shit, I'm sorry.
30:15
I'm just so fun. No, don't shut up.
30:20
You're not lying. These two, some of the best
30:24
shots in Star Wars is the beginning of Revenge of the Sith
30:28
with Obi Wan and Anakin flying in tandem in their little star
30:33
fighters. And that they're just so cocky
30:35
and so into it. And it's just so hot.
30:38
And it's just, again, these Jedi interceptors were made in Kuwat.
30:45
It's only 5 1/2 meters long, which is 18 feet.
30:50
Yeah. And 4.3 meters wide, which is 14
30:54
feet. You are in there.
30:56
And you are there. You have to be real comfortable
31:02
to fly one of these. Like I'm surprised Obi Wan could
31:05
do it because. It's like a little bubble with
31:08
wings. That's it.
31:10
That's it. That's it and and you don't have
31:14
a protective flight suit, it says.
31:16
Here, Jedi daring by shunning protective flight suits, Anakin
31:20
and Obi Wan set a brave example to inspire their clone pilots.
31:24
A small breach in the canopy or jet ejection into space was
31:28
certain death. Brave or stupid?
31:34
Well, when it comes to those two, depends on who you ask.
31:40
I bet Rex and Cody were like fucking idiots.
31:44
That's why they're on the they're on the big one with
31:48
what's his name with the mustache.
31:51
Oh. Admiral Yolaren.
31:54
Yes, thank you. I was like, I can't remember his
31:56
name. They stayed on the big one and
31:58
said to hell with that shit. I wonder if Ahsoka's little
32:03
Montrells would tap the top. You think?
32:06
Probably. Yeah, that would hurt.
32:09
Probably. Yeah, I know.
32:10
Yeah. Although she was, you know, 16
32:14
when she was flying them so. Yeah, yeah.
32:17
I mean, you know. Child in a war machine?
32:20
No big deal. I think it's crazy because in
32:25
this tiny ass bubble is your life support.
32:30
All of the the insurance and outs are all in that one spot.
32:35
SO11 shot, one well positioned shot.
32:39
If there's no protector shield then you're gone.
32:42
And you do need the ring to get you into hyperspace, so those
32:48
have to be positioned properly. Yeah, and maintained.
32:52
It's kind of cool about this too.
32:54
The interceptor, like the pilot, can see the R2 unit, whereas on
32:58
the X wing it's right behind you.
33:00
You can't see the R2 at all. I wonder.
33:02
I wonder if that makes it better or worse, distracting or not
33:06
distracting. I would like to see them.
33:09
Yeah, I feel, I mean, it feels like it would be a reassuring to
33:11
see them, see them, they're helping, but.
33:15
As someone who's flown a fighter jet for their military, they can
33:22
often have a pilot right behind them.
33:24
Yeah, their navigators are behind them.
33:26
Yeah, yeah. So you have to have a, a trust
33:28
there where sight is not necessary.
33:31
I don't know. I I don't know.
33:32
Yeah, it's kind of an interesting point because of the
33:34
R2's are kind of like the pilot navigator, so and.
33:38
You do develop a relationship with them.
33:40
I mean, maybe not all of them are as tightly knit as Anakin
33:44
and R2. But.
33:46
You know, you do rely on them and have to have some sort of
33:48
trust and Rep rapport with with them, if that's a thing I.
33:53
Mean your lives are kind of intertwined.
33:55
I mean, it's I mean it's a Droid.
33:57
If you want to say it's not alive but it's still like
34:00
you're, you need each other to both survive.
34:05
The Droid has to function just as well as the ship if not.
34:08
Better, yeah. I struggle with the the point of
34:13
view of people who don't like droids in Star Wars because I
34:16
can see where they would be annoying if you're around C3PO,
34:19
but like Astromax are pretty handy, you know what I'm saying?
34:24
Yeah, and like B and K2, like, come on.
34:29
And Chopper. BB8 was pretty handy.
34:32
I mean, he was a little anxious thing, but he, he was, he was
34:36
just as you know, handy. He needed a massage.
34:40
He did, but yeah, K2K2 is backhanded people.
34:46
He's too big to fit in anything, but he would still be really fun
34:49
to hang out with I think. He totally did all the
34:53
maneuvering of the the computerized stuff when they
34:58
were trying to take down, you know, as we all know, Oh God,
35:02
rest in peace, my God. Just too soon.
35:07
It's 10 years ago and it's still too soon.
35:12
Well, those are just three of the ships, and we've spent all
35:15
this time talking about that and we haven't even covered ground
35:19
on half the galaxy's worth of ships.
35:22
Oh my gosh, right. I mean, there's so many even
35:24
just like the redemption is a specific ship for the rebellion
35:29
and there's the ghost, which you had in here, Boba Fett ship.
35:34
There's so many iconic ships and and we didn't even get to the
35:37
Millennium Falcon, which is but it's it would take as long as a
35:41
star destroyer because that ship is so freaking intricate.
35:44
It's insane. And not only that, it was so
35:47
mistreated that we could make up our own head cannons for what?
35:51
Those rumors them actually were like not on paper, but in
35:56
actuality and reality what they actually were.
35:59
Yeah, I feel like the inside of the Millennium Falcon is
36:03
Frankenstein's monster. It's just like it's been
36:08
stitched together to make this weird ass ship, but it's kind of
36:12
awesome. It is.
36:14
It's pretty awesome. So we're definitely going to do
36:16
more episodes like this because there's just too much to talk
36:19
about and this is just too fun. Yeah, and it's such a big part
36:23
of Star Wars, like the ships are the first thing you ever see in
36:27
Star Wars is a fucking * destroyer so.
36:30
I meant to say that earlier. Thank you.
36:32
The first thing you see, yes, it's the icon, the just.
36:39
The ships are everything and I love them and I could picture
36:43
myself in all of these. That's why I bet people get
36:47
emotional in the Millennium Falcon at the Disney parks.
36:52
I feel like I would. I would probably cry.
36:55
It feels real. It feels real.
36:57
Yeah. Because the seats aren't clean,
36:59
they're dirty, and you know that shit's real.
37:03
It's like public transportation. Yes, Chewie didn't always have a
37:09
fresh blowout. He was dirty sometimes and it
37:11
got on the seats. Oh my.
37:22
See what I mean? Head cannons for the Millennium
37:24
Falcon? It's going to be its own Episode
37:26
I. Swear.
37:28
Seriously. Holy crap.
37:34
OK, We have a really important question for our listeners this
37:37
go around. So listen up.
37:39
OK, you ready? We need to know for our next
37:43
installment of this type of episode, which ship you would
37:46
like us to dissect next. There are so many.
37:50
Which one do you want to hear us kind of breakdown, talk about
37:54
headcan and do all the the usual Lauren and Leanne nonsense?
37:58
Let us know on our social media, on our website, e-mail and on
38:03
Spotify in the comment section. And on our next episode, a
38:08
little belated klaxon alert. Yes, but still.
38:14
We've just really wanted to talk about ships.
38:16
OK, We. Did we really did?
38:20
But on our next episode, we are going to talk about the Andor
38:23
Season 2 trailer it dropped. It's fucking awesome looking
38:28
there's. So much weird as.
38:30
Ship music. But that's OK, we got the.
38:32
Music was weird. A little jarring and strange,
38:35
but I don't care. I'll take it because I.
38:39
Am there's. So much in.
38:40
This. I'm so excited.
38:42
Can anyone guess why I'm so excited?
38:49
So join us back next time we're going to talk about Andor Season
38:54
2 and the trailer that just dropped.
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