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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1273918" data-attributes="member: 6929">1) Hyperdrive, the reason we have Star Wars in the first place. Hyperdrive was invented some 25,000 years ago IIRC, and has held the galaxy together in trade and conquest for all that time. With hyperdrive, a single-seater starfighter can cross the galaxy in a matter of days, that's how good it is. The hyperdrive translates a ship into a parallel continuum where you travel faster than light; unfortunately, this continuum doesn't exist in the presence of strong gravity, hence you have to break orbit before jumping to hyperspace, and the Empire fields vessels called Interdictors in the Extended Universe which generate their own gravity wells to snare anything hypering past.EDIT: The question does arise, however: how much gravity does a Death Star generate by virtue of sitting there? Not as much as you'd think, because most of it is empty air in the form of corridors and rooms and big giant holes in the floor. We can assume that it either remains below the threshold, or employs advanced technology to offset its own mass footprint, in order for A New Hope to take less than ten thousand years between scenes. (I do, however, think it would have been clearer and awesomer had they shown the DS jump out of warp before maneuvering around Yavin. That did get me thinking when I watched the film.)2) No offensive power; the Light Side is all about defence. Yoda doesn't use force lightning; he reflects force lightning. (Which, incidentally, is very hard to do; it's much easier to just absorb the energy with a Light Side energy aura.)3) For all we know the wampa (there are very many of them, according to the Extended Universe) eat sparingly from the vast flocks of bantha they farm just over the ridge from Echo Base. As has been said, Hoth is to the rebels what Vinland was to Vikings: somewhere mysterious that nobody else knows about where you can set up shop (but will probably be attacked by the natives).4) The Rebel Alliance is much like what it sounds to be: a number of worlds, presumably constituents of the old Republic, who deny the legitimacy of the Emperor and seek to overthrow his rule. Ironically, I suspect they had their roots in the separatist movement of Count Dooku, although certain details throw that into doubt; there's probably been a lot of turnover in the ranks after the Clone Wars finished off the initial bunch of separatists (I assume that's what happened, anyway; the new rebels are those who were too chicken to fight in the first place, but eventually saw the light).More importantly, the Rebel Alliance has a large number of alien members, as the Empire has never been friendly to non-humans. I imagine that much of the Rebel fleet was manufactured by independant defence forces before or during the Clone Wars, as there was no centralised army before the rise of the Empire, and organised indigenous defence forces could defy the Emperor. So they were either destroyed, or forced out into the roaming ragtag band we see in the movies.The book Splinter Of The Mind's Eye (by Allen Dean Foster), published before Empire came out, starts off with Luke and Leia en route to negotiate with a world that might join the Alliance. Thus indicating that there may be planetary centers that actively defy the Empire yet. (Alderaan being an obvious example of a society that didn't fight back (they'd exiled their weapons to space centuries ago), but would have if it could have.)5) Nerf are like spoo, right? Except you farm one and ranch the other. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> 6) I always thought that was Sentry Moon. Indicating some sort of military/protective role (which would have fitted well). Guess you do learn something new every day.</blockquote>

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