>small cannon disables a giant capital ship
booba.
>smallretard
>>218689130>It's actually pretty big>Static planetary defenses fed by underground generators will always beat the firepower of most starships>It's meant to show why the Empire can't simply bomb the Rebel Base from orbit
>>218689252>this is the guy posting about timmycels
>>218689186FPBP
Wookipedia says the Hoth Ion Cannon has a diameter of 1.3 kilometers.
>>218689130I can fucking hear this imagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhhR16xbErA
>>218691722A man of culture. This sound effect alone was worth the price of the game for me. (I was always going to love it, huge AC fan.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owb5phiqmNc>Fuck on topic posting as long as the fishtank general is allowed btw.
>>218689130That's the power of ions.
>>218689130>>218691716>Wookipedia saysBet OP feels pretty dumb right now lmao.
>>218689130>SmallA person would look like an ant next to it.
>>218689130Scale
>>218689130It's an ion cannon. It uses ions to cause a ship wide emp which also causes the ship to start to fall out of orbit because of all the ions.
>>218689130>blows up entire moon sized space station
>>218689130Yeah it's stupid as fuck. This is the worst thing about these piece of shit movies since they moved stuff with their mind or whatever. So dumb!
>>218689130Bolt on tits are so gross
>>218692330What did putting guys in ww1 trenches, against hundred foot tall giant walking tanks, armed with blasters accomplish exactly?
At least it's cool and the Rebels seem to have tons of secret funding to build something like that
>>218692404>ion cannon turns ship ioffdishonest naming convention
>>218689281>>It's meant to show why the Empire can't simply bomb the Rebel Base from orbitNo dingus, they can glass them because Admiral Ozzle dropped the fleet close enough that the rebels detected them and were able to raise a shield around the base in time to protect it from orbital attacks
>>218692596They didn't plan for them. Most of them probably didn't know they existed. (Stop. Don't even think about it. I know one of you is about to tell me there's "no way the 69th rebel winter battalion hadn't seen them before". I don't care about anything you can't infer from just watching the movies.) 80% of the OT is a reference to the world wars (part of why it's so good and so iconic). It's exactly like the irl guys in the irl WW1 trenches encountering tanks for the first time. The battle of Hoth is Dunkirk.
>>218689130Now you understand why the Empire was interested in the Death Star. A single planetary ion gun on an otherwise uninhabited ice world could disable a single Star Destroyer every volley. A single shutter shield could protect, for a while at least, the rebel base from concentrated bombardment by the largest imperial fleet ever assembled and forced them to commit to a slow ground assault to destroy said shield. It makes sense then why the Empire would be interested in a station that let them flip the table and just blow up the planet in question.The Rebellion was growing every day, every world the rebels took through popular revolt or rapidly overrunning the imperial garrison could easily become prohibitively expensive to attack and retake. It was a rare case of foresight on the empire's part, since even before the prequel's retcon the Death Star was being worked on back when rebellions were small and local.
I remember thinking the girl who says "stand by ion control.... fire" was cute but I can't find a picture of her
>>218693069Imagine having a cute girl be in charge of firing the most important gun you have. Absurd.
>>218693254Hey well she saved all the transports with her calculated orders unlike every other chick in NuWars
>>218689130Dude that canon is like the size of a Wal Mart
>>218693069That's somebody's gramma you sick bastard
>>218693407If she's dead now at least someone remembered her today :)
Jewfu unlocked
>>218689130>small cannon
>>218694093
>>218694120Hoth not to scale.
>>218692575KEK
>>218692773Based historian Chad.
>>218693310Excellent observation.
Why didn't the Star Destroyers/TIE fighters just exit hyperspace inside the planetary shield?
>>218694137Kek
>>218694264Because Abrams is a fucking hack.
>>218692596Literally nothing and they got their asses kicked.
>>218689130For me it's the ion cannon crammed into a Gallofree GR-75 transport for surprise tasings.
>>218692596Way I justify it is the rebels knew they couldn't defeat imperial heavy armor, fighting retreat and evac was always the plan (hence the ion cannon), so the trenches and turrets were to defeat a rapid assault with faster light armor. Think about it, Hoth was a Rebel Strategic Victory. Hoth had no strategic value, rebel command was there specifically because it was an ice ball in the middle of nowhere. The Empire failed to kill or capture any noteworthy rebel leadership, everyone who Vader caught was AFTER Hoth. If the Empire tried to bum rush them without their plodding heavy armor, they'd get massacred and the rebels could safely retreat. If they went in with the heavy stuff, they'd lose men but the ploddingly slow walkers would give them a longer escape window, even if the attack was expertly coordinated. You still have to man those trenches to deter the fast speeders, but it worked. It wasn't as clean or decisive as they may have wanted, but that's war. The rebels succeeded in their strategic objectives and the empire failed, and the rebels lost at most a few hundred men in the process. Arguably, the Empire lost more money in the handful of AT-ATs they lost than the rebels did in the cheap turrets, snowspeeders (straight up technicals, civilian craft converted for military use), and infantry.
>>218694093I loved these visual dictionaries as a child. Let the imagination over the worldbuilding run wild.
The power of friendship vs the powers of a boob cannon, go ahead and pick one.
>>218694528I wonder why the empire didnt bring more ships and bomb the planet from orbit? Sure, they had an ion cannon that disabled Star Destroyers but just bring a lot of them, turn them towards the planet and fire at the ion cannon. Do space weapons not penetrait atmospheres?
>>218689130>>218689188Booba... booba...
>>218689130IT'S AN ION CANNON YOU FAGGOT
>>218692709Ahh fuck, thats right. I forgot about the shield generator.
>>218692832Blowing up planets is absolute retardation in any case. The rebels weren't some cosmic existential threat, it's not like the tyranids in 40k or something. Think of all the resources lost from blowing up a planet.
>>218694519I have this transport ship boxed up in my attic.
>>218694602The five ISDs and Executor in Vader's task force apparently didn't have enough turbolaser firepower to overwhelm the output of the planetary shield. The Empire only had six Torpedo Spheres available in the whole fleet that would have been able to brute force the shield by sensor probing for a weak point then firing 500 proton torpedoes simultaneously that would punch a hole in the shield long enough for a turbolaser salvo to destroy the shield generator.
>>218694769I had no idea torpedo spheres were a thing. That's fucking wild.
>>218694602There's the base's shield. It's why they needed the ground assault in the first place, the shield generator is the primary target and it's why the rebels go from putting up a fight to full retreat when it gets blown up. The fact a base sized planetary shield can frustrate a massive, SSD lead fleet is why the Empire's fiending for the death star to the point they'd try to make a second larger one. Ozzel wanted to catch the rebels off guard with a rapid assault, which was a pretty bad plan since they lost contact with the probe droid, one should assume the rebels know they're coming. Vader wanted to surround the system first and lock down all the ways out of the system. Which would've been a better plan, but as the ranking officer it's Vader's fault for not communicating it to his admiral. The scene, for clarity's sake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV2DLkDPwM8>>218694683See, the thing is you're not thinking like an evil space wizard. The Rebel Alliance isn't existential to life in the galaxy, obviously. What they are is a threat to you ruling the entire galaxy. Who gives a fuck about wasted resources? Palpatine thinks like a third world dictator, he'd happily blow up half the galaxy to rule the remainder.
Don't you guys talk about anything else on this board?
>>218694602Logistics. The Empire cast a wide net looking for the Rebellion’s main base. That means they’d dispatched their forces across a lot of systems waiting for their probes to report back something. The instant the probe spotted the Rebels, the clock started ticking. The Rebels started preparing to bug out, and the closest detachment of the Imperial Fleet started making its way to Hoth. You see, before absolute hacks took over the writing, Hyperspace travel wasn’t teleportation. It was just a spatial shortcut, and the greater the distance, the longer it took. So what you were seeing was the first Imperials to arrive before the Rebels could finish their withdrawal.
>>218694553Absolutely. Great shit.
>>218694769That’s cool as shit.
>>218694553The Echo Base layout was one of the more comprehensive drawings.
>>218695118Clean version but smaller resolution.
I can smell the autism in this thread.
>>218689130the capital ship was made out steel beams and their jet fuel onboard.
>>218695118Wow.
>>218695202>*sniff* *sniff*But, I can smell what YOU'RE autistic about, anon. Come clean!
>>218694093longcannon is loooooooong
>>218695118>>218695138love these
>>218694093Longcannon is long
Vader wanting to bomb the rebel base makes no sense anyway, as the title crawl explicitly states he wants to find Skywalker not blow him up
Star Wars sucks is the fucking Dragon Ball for you shitty overrated movies
>>218689130>small cannonIce planets are pretty cold.
>>218694683The theory is that you terrify everyone else into submission to the point that you get more resources actually.
>>218692698underrated
>>218694683>rebels take over a planet or at least a portion of a planet>send stormptroopers to retake it>sooner or later they will get bogged down, or take too much casualties>other planets see that the empire can be beaten>start rebelling stretching the imperial forces thinner and thinnermeanwhile with the death star you can just blow the entire planet instead of engaging in ground warfare. planetary officials and regular people will kick the rebels out themselves out of fear of getting blown up. not to mention you'd be able to obliterate rebel bases on uninhabitated planets like hoth with basically zero drawbacks
>>218694769i didn't realise there are ship versions of glub shitto too
The weapons is Star Wars have no punching power whatsoever, just gay little streams of light that miss more often than not
>>218693069Her name is Toryn Farrhttps://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Toryn_Farr
I know this is hard for many of you to admit, but Star Wars was always retarded.
in the Dave Filoni universe how the Rebels escaped?
>>218701175well there was that one weapon that combined several gay little streams of light to make one giant stream of light with a lot of punching power
>>218701230Never happened but is should have
>>218701251
Why Ahsoka dont helped the Rebels? where was Rex or the Bad Batch?
>>218694683You think they're gonna run out of planets?
>>218691957Did they ever fix the conquest mode on this? Last time I played it I kept getting this weird glitch where it would generate maps with no enemies
>>218689130I can only assume the intention is that even with the small size of the actual output tube whatever is underneath is able to be nice and massive to put out a big hit, cooling too, very cold planet, and also even if it fries itself with heat after 1 shot not being attached to a ship means it can only damage itself
>>218689130Each shot costs 500 million credits.
>>218692494>hey boss I was thinking… shouldn’t we be venting all this thermal exhaust through a series of collection chambers, maybe processing it somehow?>no retard, it’s space. who gives a fuck what we dump and where we dump it. long straight tunnel fifty miles long, start building
>>218692773>The battle of Hoth is Dunkirk.Not at all
>>218697760>Star Wars sucks is the fucking Dragon Ball for you shitty overrated movies
>>218701438https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLJTgvKFZoQ
>>218689130Iran basically did that with 3 of our carriers though
how did they get up therewhy can't they have a wall or at least a railing
>>218694683>>218694843>Who gives a fuck about wasted resources? Palpatine thinks like a third world dictator, he'd happily blow up half the galaxy to rule the remainder.>Me playing Star Wars: Empire at War>Build a Death Star>Start systematically destroying EVERY. SINGLE. PLANET. that rebels have.>Toward the end of the game, half the fucking galaxy map is asteroid belts but I've won.So long as you win, everything else is irrelevant. Even if you have 1 HP remaining kek.
>>218692773>They didn't plan for them.Just how the AT-AT wasn't expecting the cable guys?
>>218701844And what do they eat?
>>218701294This old codger at the Battle of Endor got retconned into being Rex.
>>218692494>>218701480>this long straight diagonal shaft pointing right into the reactor core that doesn't line up with anything else inside the station isn't suspicious at all, said all the engineers and construction crew during the years that it took to build it
>>218703276"I just work here" is what they actually said
>>218689130a small penis can disable a wild hambeast
>>218694528If anything it was a straight up defeat for the Empire because that retard Vader tantrums and sends a destroyer into an asteroid field, where it is catastrophically damaged.
>>218689130the capital ship was never hit by the shot, it had an unrelated malfunction, a spontaneous fire in the bunkbed section:https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/18/politics/us-ford-carrier-fire-iran-war
>>218703643Ayatollah status?
>>218703768somehow returned
>>218703625>oops
>>218704150
>>218689130OH SHI-
>>218692494>thermal exhaust hole>not thermal exhaust penis
>>218703163Only to Disney Wars adherents.
>>218694093Disappointed by the lack of Saddam
>>218689130>small bomb destroys a city
>>218689186so, so many family guy star wars gags live rent free in my head
>>218694602Whether or not it was canon at the time, the star wars lore since then has decided that planetary shields are extremely annoying to crack, regarding sustained and heavy firepower from a fleet to make orbital strikes actually viable. This is why the Death Star was such a big deal: it punched right through a planetary shield like it wasn't even there and blew up the planet anyway. I kinda almost wonder if the Death Star was originally intended to JUST punch through shields with overwhelming force, and then it turned out that the level of firepower needed to do that would also vaporize the planet on the other side of the shield if you managed to do so, and they just sort of rolled with it.
>>218695202>Autists could be here. I haven't been in this thread before, autists could be anywhere
