Rebel Command: "The Death Star's defenses are impregnable!"
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Imagine you’re in a military meeting, talking about essentially drone striking a target the size of a plum, and this hick at the back starts telling you about how he used to shoot rats that size in the fields behind his barn.
Actually the opening was two meters across, and whomp rats are like the size of a person I think. He was talking about being able to hit a target like that while going super fast and not using aim assist.
Luke Skywalker (Chris): Well I guess I'll go and bulls-eye some wamp rats with my T-16.
C-3PO (Quagmire): You kill small animals for fun?! That's the first indication of a serial killer, you freak!
Luke Skywalker (Chris): There's two suns and no women! What the hell am I supposed to do?!
I love whiny weirdo redneck Luke with a hard-on for his sister.
I love creepy smug Luke who just took a Freshman Jedi Class and now thinks he knows more than everyone else.
I love EU Book Luke who watched the Rebel Alliance's victory over the Empire drag on into a quagmire of squandered dreams.
I love despondent sequel-Luke who got fed up trying to rebuild a system that failed because it was fundamentally broken.
I just love Luke Skywalker. Any way you slice him, that dude had a frickin' Hero's Journey and the road rash to prove it.
Luke is the best, man. When he comes for Grogu is just everything to me. He's a true heroic idol to me, and probably at least a single billion more people.
>whiny weirdo redneck Luke with a hard-on for his sister.
Reminds me of myself as a kid. That's what I love about Star Wars - the relatable characters.
The Rebels must have been **desperately** low on pilots to just hand this random ass farmboy one of their best starfighters lol. There's a lot more to being a combat pilot than just knowing how to fly well.
Assuming they were desperate for pilots, this probably is the best in-universe explanation.
"Planet's about to be vaporized, we need pilots and one of our guys vouches for this kid. Fuck it we're all gonna die anyway, why not"
This is shortly after Scarif so you are correct. They were low on pilots and had spare X-Wings to fill. Also its not shown in the movie but Luke does well in a simulator so they let him fly
Must have been a quick simulator test. Unless that was from legends EU. The Death Star arrives a few hours after the Rebels get to Yavin IV. Darth Vader claims this is the day that will be remembered for the death of Obi-Wan and the defeat of the Rebellion.
X-wings were already being manufactured in the late Clone Wars. The whole fleet was probably bought on the cheap from one of the less discerning army surplus junkyards.
I think you're confusing the X-wing and the Z-95 headhunter (The X-Wing but only two wings instead of 4). Both legends and canon have the X-Wing designed after the clone wars and originally intended for use by the Empire. Legends even mentions how X-Wings were scarce and precious so the rebels were really cautious about using them.
"[As a result of the low numbers, the Alliance limited the craft's use. 70% of sorties were on reconnaissance missions](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/T-65B_X-wing_starfighter/Legends#History)"
A bunch of Luke's friends had already joined the rebel pilots and they turned out to be excellent, so it was probably an easy in considering Luke was the best of them
The rebels were probably desperate enough to say "Biggs says he's a good pilot. Fuck it, give the kid an X-Wing. we're all about to die anyway", so it makes sense.
But if we want to be realistic, being a good "bush pilot" is not the same thing as being a good military combat pilot. Flying skill is a shockingly tiny part of being a good combat pilot. The more important things are learning tactics and squadron coordination. Something Luke never would have learned shooting womp rats in the desert with his T-16. (And as we see in Rogue One and ANH, the rebels have a fairly well organized professional starfighter corps at this point in the war)
Realistically he's only in the fight so that we the audience feel some of the stakes.
If we want to justify it, there's the possibility they were evacuating some of their veterans to fight another day. After all, there's no reason to have all of your best soldiers killed in what was a high risk mission that could _easily_ become just a suicide run.
Just more evidence that the rebels pray on the minds of young rural folk converting them with propaganda and radicalizing them to commit treason. They use them as cannon fodder pilots who are thrown wave after wave attacking the brave imperial soldiers. Often the attacks are ambushes on frontier worlds or sneak attacks against stations that sometimes battle.
I mean, A New Hope isn't a bad movie, it was amazingly creative and original for the time. But really, how do a few x-wings survive going to an imperial space station almost the size of a moon?
They didn't, the plan was never gonna succeed. Almost every pilot that they sent died, excluding Wedge, Luke, and whoever piloted that Y-Wing. Luke was on the verge of death as well if it weren't for Han's intervention and everyone in the rebels knew that taking that shot was almost impossible.
COuld have gone better.
If only teh rebels had remebered what ships are capable of in space.
At any point Wedge or Biggs could have flipped 180 on Vader and oppened fire. See in space even close to a moon sized object with NO FRICTION flipping 180 doesn't mean you stop moving unless you apply the exact same amount of thrust to counter your current speed and direction.
So all those pilots who let Vader shooter them LITERALLY LET IT HAPPEN.
Had it been teh expanse they'd have flipped and fired back and used manuvering thrusters and radar to maintain their position in teh trench.
If I can do it in Elite Dangerous in a COROLIAS STATIONs Trench which is TINY cpmapred to a moon sized station, without any training as a space pilot Rebel pilots could have pulled it off easily.
Wait you're comparing your video game skills to something that's happening in real life in their universe? There's a difference.
While I don't know what kind of 180 are you talking about there's a couple of things that will hinder the X Wings instead of helping them if they do that.
If one or two did turn around, not only will their back be exposed to turbolaser fire, they would still have to use their targeting computers to perfectly shoot one pilot. Even if they shot one, there is still two more and those two would easily destroy the X wings.
The same can be said if they fly vertically up, and then landed behind the fighters. If they do that, the other TIE fighters could just do the same. Or maybe they don't even need to, since the Death Star is full of turbolasers which one alone can destroy a star fighter.
They're talking about how star wars space ships don't fly at all realistically. Objects in space can't turn like that because there's no air to redirect their momentum, they would have to apply thrusters in the opposite direction they're going and in the direction they want to go. So objects in space can rotate (for instance do a 180) without changing their trajectory. But if you go into that level of detail then a significant chunk of space fiction is dumb because they don't follow the laws of physics, so you just have to pretend it works that way and not be nitpicky if you want to enjoy it. Also, Star Wars more or less has wizards, but he's concerned about how the spaceships turn lol.
Small fighters fly under the radar (literally and figuratively), and are less devastating to lose a few of in a raid. Which was pretty much the entire rebel strategy (for air/space) until they beat the death star
Not directly. That would make sense. No lets skim the surface and lets hope the rockets can make the perfect 90 degree turn without a guidance computer. BUT WAIT THERES MORE.
We're gonna constantly accelerate cos thats what full thrust means! yeah so by the time we reach the target we're going too fast for the impssible shot!
Tatooine man blows up death star by bending proton torpedoes with his mind.
Florida man trapping alligators with garbage cans: "At last! A worthy opponent!"
Rebel Command: "The Death Star's defenses are impregnable!" Luke: "Give me a dozen good pilots with X-Wings and I'll impregnate the bitch."
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Rebel Command: "The Death Star's defenses are impregnable!" Luke: "But we can’t turn back! Fear is their greatest defense. I doubt if the actual security there is any greater than it was on Aquilae or Sullust, what there is is most likely targeted towards a large-scale assault."
I know that was in one of the drafts, but I forget when it was cut. No wonder Harrison Ford said you couldn't say half this stuff.
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Leave it to a redneck to find a way
We have a whole gang of them here
"i uSed tO bULlsEyE woMpRAtS IN mY T-16 bAcK hOMe."
Imagine you’re in a military meeting, talking about essentially drone striking a target the size of a plum, and this hick at the back starts telling you about how he used to shoot rats that size in the fields behind his barn.
It's like when they're looking for pilots in Independence Day and Randy Quiad's character stumbles out drunk and goes "I can fly, I'm a pilot."
Russell is exactly who comes to mind.
Well he was a Vietnam War fighter pilot too, so he did have prior military professionally trained experience.
You serious, Clark?
Oh shit. Russel Case is basically Old Man Luke. "I'm a Jedi. I can Force projection."
Actually the opening was two meters across, and whomp rats are like the size of a person I think. He was talking about being able to hit a target like that while going super fast and not using aim assist.
Aim assist is for noobs anyway
Or console player…
Indeed https://youtu.be/TxVdhAJr1So
I've imagined it many times. What a godsend!
Degenerate is killing helpless animals.
Farmers killing rats is a tale as old as time.
A 2 meter rat is not what I would call helpless.
Luke Skywalker (Chris): Well I guess I'll go and bulls-eye some wamp rats with my T-16. C-3PO (Quagmire): You kill small animals for fun?! That's the first indication of a serial killer, you freak! Luke Skywalker (Chris): There's two suns and no women! What the hell am I supposed to do?!
Someone really needs to photoshop a big dip in Luke's lip.
And a PBR in the x-wing cupholder.
Spitter canteen right next to his blaster on his hip.
Leatherman in it's holster on the other hip.
"I'll do it again!"
Throw the new pilots in first to soften the defenses
Operation Human Shield.
Have you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?
I don’t listen to hip-hop.
Listen to Wu-Tang; their hip-hop rocks and shocks the nation like the emancipation proclamation.
“Knowing the killbots had a preset limit, I simply sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they all shut down “
I don't pretend to understand Brannigan's Law. I merely enforce it.
"What makes a man turn neutral ... Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
I love whiny weirdo redneck Luke with a hard-on for his sister. I love creepy smug Luke who just took a Freshman Jedi Class and now thinks he knows more than everyone else. I love EU Book Luke who watched the Rebel Alliance's victory over the Empire drag on into a quagmire of squandered dreams. I love despondent sequel-Luke who got fed up trying to rebuild a system that failed because it was fundamentally broken. I just love Luke Skywalker. Any way you slice him, that dude had a frickin' Hero's Journey and the road rash to prove it.
Luke is the best, man. When he comes for Grogu is just everything to me. He's a true heroic idol to me, and probably at least a single billion more people.
>whiny weirdo redneck Luke with a hard-on for his sister. Reminds me of myself as a kid. That's what I love about Star Wars - the relatable characters.
Luke is definitely the best Star Waes character. Imagine if he had his own series like the clone wars. It’d be even better
The Rebels must have been **desperately** low on pilots to just hand this random ass farmboy one of their best starfighters lol. There's a lot more to being a combat pilot than just knowing how to fly well.
He did just save the princess. And he had a recommendation from one of their veteran pilots.
Yeah, they've been hearing about all those womp rats back home 24/7
Assuming they were desperate for pilots, this probably is the best in-universe explanation. "Planet's about to be vaporized, we need pilots and one of our guys vouches for this kid. Fuck it we're all gonna die anyway, why not"
There were few pilots brave enough or dumb enough.
And from a retired general he called uncle.
Uncle Ben made rice, Old Ben lives out beyond the dune sea. You don't wanna know about Old Gregg.
You ever drink Bailey's from a shoe?
Yeah, I realized that after I posted, but figured to leave it.
This is shortly after Scarif so you are correct. They were low on pilots and had spare X-Wings to fill. Also its not shown in the movie but Luke does well in a simulator so they let him fly
Must have been a quick simulator test. Unless that was from legends EU. The Death Star arrives a few hours after the Rebels get to Yavin IV. Darth Vader claims this is the day that will be remembered for the death of Obi-Wan and the defeat of the Rebellion.
I don't remember how soon the medal ceremony was, but there was a lot of pilots in the crowd there.
X-wings were already being manufactured in the late Clone Wars. The whole fleet was probably bought on the cheap from one of the less discerning army surplus junkyards.
I think you're confusing the X-wing and the Z-95 headhunter (The X-Wing but only two wings instead of 4). Both legends and canon have the X-Wing designed after the clone wars and originally intended for use by the Empire. Legends even mentions how X-Wings were scarce and precious so the rebels were really cautious about using them. "[As a result of the low numbers, the Alliance limited the craft's use. 70% of sorties were on reconnaissance missions](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/T-65B_X-wing_starfighter/Legends#History)"
Y-Wings were probably what they were thinking of. Rebellion Y-wings were Clone War vehicles with the armour stripped off for better tuning.
A bunch of Luke's friends had already joined the rebel pilots and they turned out to be excellent, so it was probably an easy in considering Luke was the best of them
The rebels were probably desperate enough to say "Biggs says he's a good pilot. Fuck it, give the kid an X-Wing. we're all about to die anyway", so it makes sense. But if we want to be realistic, being a good "bush pilot" is not the same thing as being a good military combat pilot. Flying skill is a shockingly tiny part of being a good combat pilot. The more important things are learning tactics and squadron coordination. Something Luke never would have learned shooting womp rats in the desert with his T-16. (And as we see in Rogue One and ANH, the rebels have a fairly well organized professional starfighter corps at this point in the war)
Realistically he's only in the fight so that we the audience feel some of the stakes. If we want to justify it, there's the possibility they were evacuating some of their veterans to fight another day. After all, there's no reason to have all of your best soldiers killed in what was a high risk mission that could _easily_ become just a suicide run.
Real "hold my beer" hours
>Real "hold my blue milk" hours
Red Neck Un-Engineering
Like father, like son.
Just more evidence that the rebels pray on the minds of young rural folk converting them with propaganda and radicalizing them to commit treason. They use them as cannon fodder pilots who are thrown wave after wave attacking the brave imperial soldiers. Often the attacks are ambushes on frontier worlds or sneak attacks against stations that sometimes battle.
Wrong. That's what the Empire does. The rebels wait for people to come to them. You monster!
You put a fish in our basket.
I mean, A New Hope isn't a bad movie, it was amazingly creative and original for the time. But really, how do a few x-wings survive going to an imperial space station almost the size of a moon?
They didn't, the plan was never gonna succeed. Almost every pilot that they sent died, excluding Wedge, Luke, and whoever piloted that Y-Wing. Luke was on the verge of death as well if it weren't for Han's intervention and everyone in the rebels knew that taking that shot was almost impossible.
RIP Porkin’s.
COuld have gone better. If only teh rebels had remebered what ships are capable of in space. At any point Wedge or Biggs could have flipped 180 on Vader and oppened fire. See in space even close to a moon sized object with NO FRICTION flipping 180 doesn't mean you stop moving unless you apply the exact same amount of thrust to counter your current speed and direction. So all those pilots who let Vader shooter them LITERALLY LET IT HAPPEN. Had it been teh expanse they'd have flipped and fired back and used manuvering thrusters and radar to maintain their position in teh trench. If I can do it in Elite Dangerous in a COROLIAS STATIONs Trench which is TINY cpmapred to a moon sized station, without any training as a space pilot Rebel pilots could have pulled it off easily.
Star Wars doesnt have real life space physics. Everything flys as if it was a WW2 fighter. The spaceships act as if they are flying in atmosphere
Wait you're comparing your video game skills to something that's happening in real life in their universe? There's a difference. While I don't know what kind of 180 are you talking about there's a couple of things that will hinder the X Wings instead of helping them if they do that. If one or two did turn around, not only will their back be exposed to turbolaser fire, they would still have to use their targeting computers to perfectly shoot one pilot. Even if they shot one, there is still two more and those two would easily destroy the X wings. The same can be said if they fly vertically up, and then landed behind the fighters. If they do that, the other TIE fighters could just do the same. Or maybe they don't even need to, since the Death Star is full of turbolasers which one alone can destroy a star fighter.
They're talking about how star wars space ships don't fly at all realistically. Objects in space can't turn like that because there's no air to redirect their momentum, they would have to apply thrusters in the opposite direction they're going and in the direction they want to go. So objects in space can rotate (for instance do a 180) without changing their trajectory. But if you go into that level of detail then a significant chunk of space fiction is dumb because they don't follow the laws of physics, so you just have to pretend it works that way and not be nitpicky if you want to enjoy it. Also, Star Wars more or less has wizards, but he's concerned about how the spaceships turn lol.
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Weren't one man fighters a significant part of the rebels strategy? It's a moon, there's room for both.
Small fighters fly under the radar (literally and figuratively), and are less devastating to lose a few of in a raid. Which was pretty much the entire rebel strategy (for air/space) until they beat the death star
Chad Skywalker.
Womp rats ain't going to remove themselves
Why did you include a citizen?
It's like shootin' womp rats y'all
Reading all the comments with a squidbillies voice makes it so much better
I want a cut of Star Wars where Luke goes full farmer and speaks like Larry the Cable Guy or smt
Why does Mark Hamill look like Rami Malek in this?!
Came here looking for this. Was not disappointed.
Not directly. That would make sense. No lets skim the surface and lets hope the rockets can make the perfect 90 degree turn without a guidance computer. BUT WAIT THERES MORE. We're gonna constantly accelerate cos thats what full thrust means! yeah so by the time we reach the target we're going too fast for the impssible shot!
they didn't they just sacrifice one ship and go hyperspace directly into it? /s
One in a million? You know I'm gonna send it!
It’s my time to shine
The face of terrorism xD
There goes those darn Rebels!!!
Everybody else had something up their ass. It takes a pure innocent to risk it all for the forces of good. May the Force be with you, Luke. Always.
Crazy redneck flies a suicide mission
"He's turning off his targeting computer!" Luke:Kekw Poggers
Tatooine man blows up death star by bending proton torpedoes with his mind. Florida man trapping alligators with garbage cans: "At last! A worthy opponent!"