Those SW Quirks that we love....

11. Why isn't there any paper in sw.....oh wait

 

@Lock_S_Foils Here's my first thought:

12. The fact that the shield generators on the Star Destroyers were easily visible and susceptible to attack or other incidental damage

(Maybe more generators could be placed across the surface of the ships, and not as visibly obvious)

 

From the looks of the Finalizer, it seems the FO has not completely figured this one out in 30 years' time...deciding to still leave one such structure visible...

 

Wookiepedia lists Endor as having a diameter 4,900 Km and Death Star II having 200 Km. So wouldn't the explanation be that moons can come in all shapes and sizes and Endor is so big because it orbits a massive gas giant. Earth's moon diameter is 3,474 km so Endor's size doesn't seem to unbelievable. Also keep in mind Luke said "small moon" about DS1 and DS2 is only bigger by like 40Km so DS2 is still probably a "small moon" in size.

 

With Tatooine having two suns shouldn't it be double hot?

 

Well, that's not entirely true:

"The ships main hull defector shield projectors were located on both the port and starboard stern sections, while a single domed-shaped bridge deflector shield projector encased the command bridge and its occupants, aided by a bridge deflector augmenter further up the ship's keel line. A bridge point-defense turret also helped further defend the bridge from starfighter attack.[1]"

and

"Learning lessons from the loss of the Executor during the Battle of Endor, the Resurgent-class featured a better protected command bridge along with increased redundancy in command and control systems. No longer having the exposed conning towers of older Imperial-era vessels, the bridge height was reduced significantly. In addition, an emergency bridge was located in the ship's midsection, and was not exposed but built into the existing structure of the vessel."

source: Wookieepedia

 

I can actually answer this one partially, from an in-verse perspective:

One main thing to understand is that the Old Republic period is at the very least three-to-four millennia long. You can have a story depicting the early years of the Old Republic, back when Coruscant wasn't even the capital (the seat of power wasn't actually moved there until either its final years or the very dawn of the Galactic Republic that we now know from the movies) - or you can have a story closer to the time period shown in the prequels, with technology that's sufficiently advanced, but hasn't yet figured out the quality of life additions and little quirks that the modern eras possess.

Ambitious tech like cloning is at its mere infancy; droids are a bit rudimentary outside of expensive, more personalized models; crossguard lightsabers are still a thing (but are clearly dying out around the twilight years of the Old Republic - you'd probably only find oldtimers using these by this point); the Grand Convocation Chamber isn't as fancy as it was depicted in the Prequel Trilogy (not as large of a room and doesn't have those shiny hovering pods for Senate representatives, for example); ships are significantly smaller and you even have vessels specifically designed to latch onto the bigger frigates and "hitchhike" across the hyperspace lanes that way, because not every ship can afford to have a hyperdrive installed.

After the Old Republic period ended, there was a thousand years of relative peace - and in comparison to World War II sparking a lot of modern technology in our world, it wasn't until the Clone Wars struck that the next big technological boom happened in the Star Wars galaxy as well.

 

@RockyRoadHux Thank you for the informative post - I'll gladly stand corrected; good to see the FO has taken these precautions.

 

You're welcome CT-0631 !

 

Everyone seems to understand Huttese perfectly.

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Moons with trees like planets.

 

There is no railguards on very dangerous locations.

 

I thought the same way. In atmosphere the shield reacts with gases making it visible and in the vacuum of space the shield is virtually invisible.

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Even though we call the English we hear Basic. I took Huttenese as equivalent to English because like the British Empire colonizing across our globe spreading the English language, the Hutts took over territories in vulnerable worlds. Making their language follow as they conquered. And if you want to make a profit you learn the language of the most powerful mobsters. And since most of the galaxy is struggling under the Empire's rule the gangs spreads faster.

 

It actually makes sense. Biology of Wookiees' vocal chords is different enough from vocal chords of most of the humanoids from the GFFA. Because of that Wookiees cannot pronounce the same set of phones as humanoids do. Think of it as learning your dog to speak - it won't happen. However, Wookiees still use a logical system of phones that make syllables, words and eventually sentences and because of that internal logic human beings can learn to understand Shyriiwook and vice versa.

Speaking of languages, one of the funnier quirks of SW is that astromechs don't use Basic but their own language, binary. It's not like engineers aren't able to put inside them voice synthesizers.

 

Yes, Huttese seems to be the language of the people, but I imagine it is also the Hutt native tongue and they expect their own space to speak what they do, only having their own version of colonial style conquering.