Obi Wan in Episode 9? – SWR #366

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Email from Nate:

Riley,

Okay hear me out, in the last episode you guys were doing your Last Jedi review you talked about or questioned why Star Destroyers wouldn’t just drop in over Hoth and referenced Jedah.

1) Few of the Star Destroyers were capable of low atmospheric insertion. there are a few old Canon references for why they would or wouldn’t. We may have been seeing one of the older victory-class Star Destroyers over Jedah. They were lighter and much more capable of low atmospheric entry. That planet could also have a lower gravity permitting an easier escape velocity then let’s say perhaps Hoth. I certainly do not think Vader’s Super Star Destroyer would have been capable of low atmospheric hovering so to speak.

2) from a strategic standpoint in ESB particularly, they called out the fact that they had planetary shields and could withstand bombardment hence why they had to perform a ground insertion into a direct assault to disable those shields.

3) to top that off the rebels also had a defense mechanism that would have caused it to rain Star Destroyers from the sky. If those capital ships had been models capable of low orbital/atmospheric insertion, shots from the ion cannon would have caused them to crash into the planet surface were they low enough to be inside the gravity well of the planet. assuming that it wasn’t just imperial ground forces wanting to get some slice of the glory under General Veers we may possibly postulate that naval doctrine considered it too great of a risk very expensive capital ships for them to typically perform that kind of maneuver. Jedah was not contested territory with the exception of very small rebel forces on the ground. even taking out a few repulsors on a ship that scale with that much mass may have been enough to bring it crashing to the ground and therefore too much of a risk.

Just my thoughts on the topic, who’s to say the Imperial Navy wasn’t often more reckless and dove in head-first with sub-orbital bombardment. my guess is that higher orbit bombardment was probably yes a more regular thing. given the toxic command climate of the imperial Navy I would gather most of them probably stuck pretty close to the book, in order to avoid suffering fatal office hours at the hands of Lord Vader or other imperial commanders.

I really enjoy your podcast, the whole SWR team puts a lot of good thought and solid work into your product.  keep up the good work. Honestly, your episode about the court-martial of Poe Dameron played a part in my decision to start a vet-lead military sci-fi discussion podcast with bunch of my friends.we are still struggling with things like audio levels and editing, so our current episodes don’t sound all that great, but maybe once we figure it all out we could have you on for a discussion if you ever care to join us.

Semper Fi,

Nate

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