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DS Tractor Beam: Why no effect on the Rebel Fighters?
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the_immolated_one
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Sep '06
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1/3 10:25am
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RE: DS Tractor Beam: Why no effect on the Rebel Fighters?
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Vortigern99 posted:
I think it's at least possible that the Empire didn't discover the tractor beam was out, because as General Kenobi said on the previous page of this thread, they tracked the Falcon to Yavin and would have had no cause to test the beam between their leaving Alderaan space and arriving in Yavin space.
I like the way it kinda gives Kenobi's mission to turn off the tractor beam a greater sense of purpose too. A purpose that he wasn't even aware of.
I'll go with that reason as well. It's a goodin.
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zombie
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Date Posted:
1/3 10:34am
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DarthButt posted:
but: [C3PO]...the power beam that's holding the ship here... blah blah.. must be disabled to allow the ship to leave...[/C3PO]
They have must have known it was disabled when the Falcon left the hangar.
This was discussed on the first page, but how would they know the beam was disabled? They let the Falcon go. As far as we know the guy controlling that particular hanger bay turned off the tractor beam under executive orders to let the captured ship escape--unaware that the entire tractor beam system has been put out of comission by Kenobi. That to me is the best explanation.
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Darth_Drachonus
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1/3 9:21pm
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zombie posted:
DarthButt posted:
but: [C3PO]...the power beam that's holding the ship here... blah blah.. must be disabled to allow the ship to leave...[/C3PO]
They have must have known it was disabled when the Falcon left the hangar.
This was discussed on the first page, but how would they know the beam was disabled? They let the Falcon go. As far as we know the guy controlling that particular hanger bay turned off the tractor beam under executive orders to let the captured ship escape--unaware that the entire tractor beam system has been put out of comission by Kenobi. That to me is the best explanation.
Decent explaination, but what about adding this to it: The tractor beams had to be manned, just like a normal turbo laser, and with X and Y-Wings going in as fast as they were (remember they can manuver a lot better than the Falcon, or atleast SHOULD be able too) how difficult is it gonna be to actually lock onto such a ship? Just a thought, no reference, just a theory.
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Chancellor_Ewok
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Master_Starwalker posted:
I assumed they were too small but, I don't know if that has basis in anything official.
That's what I would assume too. The Imperials found during the Battle of Yavin that their turbolaser turrets were unable to hit the Rebel fighter force, because they were too small and too fast. I would assume that the tractor beams were equally as slow and simply unable to track with the Rebel snubfighters in order to capture them and slow them down.
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Darth_Davi
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Yeah, I am kinda thinking along those lines as well...since the Death Star never considered small fighters to be any kind of real threat, strategically, they probably had their tractor beams calibrated to lock on to larger targets, such as capital ships like frigates and dreadnaughts and such...The Millennium Falcon may have been on the smallest end of ships the tractors were calibrated for. Assuming the tractor beams could lock on to them, they are used for capturing prisoners, and the Empire probably wouldn't bother tractoring in X-Wings, as those are just pilots, and probably have no really valuable information to torture out of. Wasting the effort on such small ships, when you don't consider them to be a threat at all doesn't really make a whole lot of sense...They were eventually proven wrong, obviously, but they believed they were right at the time. From their perspective, X-Wings simply weren't worth the effort.
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