Technical Question: Globes on Star Destroyers

Shield generators or Sensor Scanners?
I am more inclined to believe the latter.

 

If you're talking about the sphere on the bottom of a Star Destroyer, that's the Solar Ionization Reactor. If you're talking about the two spheres near the bridge, they're Deflector Shield Generator Domes.

Information courtesy of the New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels

 

Meh. I rather go with the Scanners. Having shield generators in these positions and being so weakly armored (see A-Wings attacks on Executator) make it pretty dumb.

 

Wow, nice one.

 

I agree with Robal. He is exactly right. If you had a sensor suite in each one of those domes. You can check out about half a sector. lol

 

I prefer the games' shield generators explanation, just because it afforded me the opportunity to own a Imperial Star Destroyer with a Y-Wing.

 

Or if you're good enough, a TIE Fighter

 

Pretty silly in the games when a simple low perfomance fighter can take on a 1,600 meters Imperator Star Destroyer, or for that matter the Super Star Destroyer and win.

At least the movies and film novelization sources do implicate that fighters cannot take on any capital ship easily without capital support.

 

Truthfully you don't want to believe anything that's stated in a game for the simple fact that the producers of the game just through stuff in there to make it more interesting or to give a massive ship an idiotic weakness like that.