Yes, complete with the colors of the ships’ laser fire correlating with the colors of tracers used by the US and Eastern Bloc forces, respectively. This is also why all the X-Wing battles are dogfights in space; they are literally thematic recreations of terrestrial fighter plane dogfights as Lucas saw them depicted on TV and in movies.
Yeah that never sat well with me but I could imagine some kind of reason for a the Super Star Destroyer falling out of orbit.
Don’t get me started on the arching fire of turbo lasers and the way they abused light speed in the latest trilogy.
I’ve given up on thinking of Star Wars as sci-fi and now just consider it WWII in space.
Always has been.
IIRC, it’s actually the Vietnam War in space.
Yes, complete with the colors of the ships’ laser fire correlating with the colors of tracers used by the US and Eastern Bloc forces, respectively. This is also why all the X-Wing battles are dogfights in space; they are literally thematic recreations of terrestrial fighter plane dogfights as Lucas saw them depicted on TV and in movies.