A few Star Wars Questions?

[GalaxyClass1701]

Forgive this Trekie I have always liked Srar Wars but I live Star Trek so I have a few questions.

Or all Storm Trooper and Tie pilots clones?

If they are only traveling at the speed of light how do they get around the galaxy?

Why were the last three films made first?

Where did the Rebel Alliance get all those ships?

 

[InklingStar]

Forgive this Trekie I have always liked Srar Wars but I live Star Trek so I have a few questions.

Or all Storm Trooper and Tie pilots clones?

Possibly, but it is likely that their ranks were swelled through recruitment by the time of Episode 4. Luke mentions an academy, the same one his friend Biggs went to before deserting to join the rebels. This could be just for the uniformed officers though. Leia's comment about stormtrooper height indicates that they are all generally the same size, which could mean clones. On the other hand, their voices do not have the same accent the clones do in Episodes 2 and 3. Since we never actually see an unmasked trooper or pilot it is hard to say for sure.

If they are only traveling at the speed of light how do they get around the galaxy?

Hyperspace seems to mean "as fast as the plot dictates". Unlike Star Trek, Star Wars does not make any point of explaining how the technology works. It just does.

Why were the last three films made first?

Because that was George Lucas' original story. His early drafts have Luke Skywalker drawn into the galactic civil war, recovering the Death Star plans from the Imperial base on Cloud City, and finally destroying the station with the help of the Wookies. Eventually, Lucas divided it into three movies. I think it was only later, perhaps as he was writing Episode 5, that he decided to create a backstory. The basic outline for Anakin's fall and the Empire's rise was done quite early but the specific story was not made until he started writing Episode 1 in the late 1990s.

Where did the Rebel Alliance get all those ships?

The Alliance obviously uses older technology so they probably scavenged it from scrapyards or surplus depots. It is possible that smaller planets or organizations supplied them with equipment as well.


I am sure there are books that explain all of this in much greater detail.

 

[Silvercrest]

Hyperspace seems to mean "as fast as the plot dictates". Unlike Star Trek, Star Wars does not make any point of explaining how the technology works. It just does.

I think the OP's problem is that half the time they just say "lightspeed", as in "Get ready to make the jump to lightspeed!" Which, taken literally, makes for rather slow travel in s.f. terms.

It might be better to assume that "lightspeed" is not to be taken literally, but is just slang for "hyperspace." Then the rest of your post covers it.

 

[RoJoHen]

Maybe they have to accelerate to lightspeed before they can make the jump to hyperspace...or something...kinda like the Delorean can't just time travel while in Park.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

Maybe they have to accelerate to lightspeed before they can make the jump to hyperspace...or something...kinda like the Delorean can't just time travel while in Park.

I like this! Kind of like entering warp before slipstream.

 

[kythe]

Maybe they have to accelerate to lightspeed before they can make the jump to hyperspace...or something...kinda like the Delorean can't just time travel while in Park.

I like this! Kind of like entering warp before slipstream.

This is a good explanation.

Also, near a galactic core, stars are much closer together than we are to our nearest star. Earth could be said to be along the "outer rim" of our galaxy, and even the stars "close" to us are many light years away. But as you get closer to the center of a galaxy, stars are more densely packed. There are many star clusters in our galaxy, we just aren't in one.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

Maybe they have to accelerate to lightspeed before they can make the jump to hyperspace...or something...kinda like the Delorean can't just time travel while in Park.

I like this! Kind of like entering warp before slipstream.

This is a good explanation.

Also, near a galactic core, stars are much closer together than we are to our nearest star. Earth could be said to be along the "outer rim" of our galaxy, and even the stars "close" to us are many light years away. But as you get closer to the center of a galaxy, stars are more densely packed. There are many star
clusters in our galaxy, we just aren't in one.

Also a good point.

 

[milo bloom]

Han also says in ANH, "she'll make .5 past lightspeed". The movie never clarifies what that unit of measurment is, but it points pretty clearly to lightspeed being the lowest level of high speed travel, and hyperspace somehow expands on that in increments of tenths of a point.

As for getting the ships, well, (spoilers!) in the prequels and the Clone Wars, the Separatist factions are sort of what end up becoming the Rebel Alliance. There were a lot of planets, many with their own shipyards, churning out ships. What the Alliance wasn't given by sympathetic planets, they likely scavenged or stole.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

As for getting the ships, well, (spoilers!) in the prequels and the Clone Wars, the Separatist factions are sort of what end up becoming the Rebel Alliance.

The Seppys were right all along.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

The thing is, Separatist ships look nothing like Rebel ships. It's clear the Rebel ships had a different source of manufacturing (actually, Old Republic ships often look like a cross between Rebel and Imperial ships). I think the AU has a story for who built them, but I'm not going to bother to check wookiepedia.

 

[Set Harth]

Possibly, but it is likely that their ranks were swelled through recruitment by the time of Episode 4.

I believe this was said somewhere by an official source such as Star Wars Insider. Also, they are using different templates, not just Jangos.

 

[Jono]

The big bumpy ships we see in ROTJ are Mon Calamari (Admiral Ackbar's race) vessels. In the EU they were the primary suppliers of large, powerful cruisers to the rebels and then to the NR. The early vessels they supplied were civilian vessels that were refitted into warship.

Apart from that they used whatever they could steal, buy or was donated.

 

[HAL.9000]

I have a question:

When Luke spoke of submitting his application to "the academy" in A New Hope, what academy was he speaking of? Did the rebellion have an academy or was he speaking of the Empire? Or some other academy altogether?

 

[Morpheus 02]

Hyperspace seems to mean "as fast as the plot dictates". Unlike Star Trek, Star Wars does not make any point of explaining how the technology works. It just does.

I think the OP's problem is that half the time they just say "lightspeed", as in "Get ready to make the jump to lightspeed!" Which, taken literally, makes for rather slow travel in s.f. terms.

It might be better to assume that "lightspeed" is not to be taken literally, but is just slang for "hyperspace." Then the rest of your post covers it.

i view it like the way we might today say we're
"taping" an event, despite not using any videotape at all. Old term used for an updated mode of travel.

 

[HAL.9000]

Hyperspace seems to mean "as fast as the plot dictates". Unlike Star Trek, Star Wars does not make any point of explaining how the technology works. It just does.

I think the OP's problem is that half the time they just say "lightspeed", as in "Get ready to make the jump to lightspeed!" Which, taken literally, makes for rather slow travel in s.f. terms.

It might be better to assume that "lightspeed" is not to be taken literally, but is just slang for "hyperspace." Then the rest of your post covers it.

i view it like the way we might today say we're
"taping" an event, despite not using any videotape at all. Old term used for an updated mode of travel.

Even the Star Trek movies make the use of the word "tape" when describing recorded media. See Wrath of Khan and Kirk referring to the "tape" concerning the Genesis Device.

But of course at the time of that filming, video tape was widely used and CD/DVD/Disk technology was no where to be found.

 

[Silvercrest]

Weren't laserdiscs already gaining popularity by then? And there was some other sort of video disc technology from the same era that wasn't DVD and wasn't laserdisc. I've never figured out what it was.

The point is, with other formats obviously moving up, you'd think Star Trek would have used something besides "tape."

 

[HAL.9000]

Weren't laserdiscs already gaining popularity by then? And there was some other sort of video disc technology from the same era that wasn't DVD and wasn't laserdisc. I've never figured out what it was.

The point is, with other formats obviously moving up, you'd think Star Trek would have used something besides "tape."

Laserdiscs where catching on but they were terribly expensive and the size of a vinyl LP record. The format didn't really stick.

 

[Silvercrest]

That's not the point. Like I said, with other formats moving up...

Ah, well. Trek has always been deliberately retro in some ways, like with all the ship combat that was a retread of submarine warfare.

 

[Jono]

I have a question:

When Luke spoke of submitting his application to "the academy" in A New Hope, what academy was he speaking of? Did the rebellion have an academy or was he speaking of the Empire? Or some other academy altogether?

He was talking about joining the Imperial Academy.

 

[David cgc]

I have a question:

When Luke spoke of submitting his application to "the academy" in A New Hope, what academy was he speaking of? Did the rebellion have an academy or was he speaking of the Empire? Or some other academy altogether?

He was talking about joining the Imperial Academy.

However, since Luke was anti-Empire, his plan was to join the Imperial Academy, take advantage of their training and instruction, and then defect to the Rebellion.