Clone Wars 1x04 "Destroy Malevolence"
- Thread starter Johnny Rico
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For the most part, I've really enjoyed the show. And from what I've heard, I'm glad I avoided the movie.
I do wish though the droid "humor" could be done away with. It's getting hard to ignore it.
I do wish though the droid "humor" could be done away with. It's getting hard to ignore it.
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
Was it? You are probably right, I'm not familiar with Capote. Some reviews had said Ziro was a foppish black carciature.
My last line was from FAMILY GUY regarding the crows from DUMBO.
This isn't the first time I've noticed someone doing that (offhand, I remember big plumes of smoke coming off of the Prometheus when it was destroyed in Stargate). I suppose it's just one of those, "It's wrong, but it looks right," things.
One thing always bothered me about the Seperatist warships. All we ever see are droids as crew, so why in the world do they bother to have breathable air running through the entire ship?!?!
Of course the real answer is so our heroes don't have to wear breath-masks when they invade the ship
Well, if the battle droids are designed to operate in-atmosphere, it could just be for ease of maintenance. Air would make cooling their components far easier, not to mention stabilizing whatever fluids they have for lubrication, cooling, or whatnot. Gravity would also make life more convenient. They're probably only able to function in space for a limited time, or possibly even only with preparation.
As mentioned, in the movies the ships had Neimodian crew members both before and after this time period, and Grievous requires an atmosphere to survive long term. Additionally, Count Dooku and other Separatist dignitaries might require transport on the ships, or the ships serve as meeting places for diplomatic missions to try and recruit other worlds to the Separatist cause.
The mass production capabilities of the Star Wars universe are incredible, and it's simply possible that ship production vastly outpaces crew training. In which case mass produced droid crews who can be programmed with basic crew skills instantly are the more efficient option. The same thing is happening with the Republic Navy to a lesser extent where rapidly grown clones now represent a majority of the ship's crews as ship production has been ramped up for the war effort. The clones probably undergo some form of rapid indoctrination and training (possibly brainwashing) to be ready to serve faster as well.
So the ships might have originally been designed for biological crews, but as the war grew near and production increased it became increasingly obvious that droids would have to take over. Otherwise, why even make the battledroids humanoid in shape at all unless you intended for them to mainly man vehicles designed for humanoid occupants? They could have looked like R2 units or Droidekas otherwise.
all the sources say "flash training" think the matrix, instant knowledge download
Yeah, but just because the ships occasionally need to be pressurized doesn't mean they have to be in all sections 100 percent of the time. Indeed, there are definite advantages to keeping much of a battleship's interior in vacuum, because if an evacuated section is penetrated, no air is lost, and more importantly, the vacuum insulates adjacent parts of the ship from the heat and shock from the impact.
So I prefer David cgc's proposal about the cooling and maintenance benefits, although that could probably be achieved with an all-nitrogen or all-argon atmosphere, say. Ultimately, the real explanation is that Star Wars is sword-and-sorcery fantasy in a spacelike setting, not a plausible depiction of a spacefaring civilization. I mean, you've got smoke and flames rising in weightless vacuum, for Pete's sake. You might as well try to find a technical explanation for how a princess could sleep for a hundred years without dying, or how a dragon can possibly stay aloft given Earth's gravity and air density. Ultimately it's a fairy tale and isn't even trying to make sense.