The REAL REASON one A-Wing took down a SUPER STAR DESTROYER 

Tell me the Location of that Academy!!

Thank you for your donation to the Empire I will have to find an Executor whoever build this design like this

#askeck Sup Justin, love the vid. My question is; was there another MC-80 at the battle of Endor that the DS2 shot down with its superlaser? I can't tell if it was Home One (maybe a repurposed shot with the same model) or just one of the Mon Calamari Star Cruisers (didn't have the wings though). Thx bud and congratz on the 2nd trench run with the wifey. #kisses

Cover the storyline of Battlefront Elite Squadron if you get the chance, m8. You will not regret it.

2 questions about TROJ: How was Luke able to walk through the death star without being stopped? Were the other people too busy to care? Was he not viewed as a rebel, and instead a "guest" of the Emperor? And 2), where does the A-wing get damaged firstly? I always thought it was along the city-scape of the Executor, but it looks like the A-wing is flying down into the cockpit, and you can just barely see something flying down from the mon cal cruiser, which seems odd because the x-wing behind it was taken out by a green laser, like from an imperial vessel. Is there any info on that?

The pilot must have pressed Z or R twice

Palpatine did a spin and was able to kill 3 jedi masters and in legends did another spin and killed 3 other jedi in 1 spin

"Do a barrel row". Peppi

Thanks for summing up the video now I don't need to watch it

Poe spun once when he was doing the trench run to destroy Star killer base I believe.

Solid copy. Hit them hard, pilot.

You're on your own Noble, Carter out

And very, very unstable engine/reactor fuel ;)

Lol

Goodnight, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

To quote a guy who used to be on the BBC a few decades back, "And so, there you have it!"

Exactly lol, all those geeks with their totally stupid explanations of senseless things in a movie

Answer for fan 1: The SSD was caught in the Death Star’s gravity well.

Yeah true some stuff is stupid to explain like this, it’s obvious the writers just wanted something cool looking to happen it didn’t need to make sense

You guys trying to say we're wrong for coming up with explanations for events in the movies are just unimaginative and boring. Have some fun, jeez...

Pretty sure it was Pirez Because I invoked a debate 🙂

Could have been.

@@attilathehun5067 I re-watch and yes

Eh I'm starting to lose hope for the survival of originality.

AHH Ship System Display?? OH Nevermind.

That does have some benefit especially if it could also rely on the station side weapons to help screen away the capital ships while the TIEs dealt with the fighters.

It could buy some time but the ship would still be doomed. The second death star was still going to explode and that ship might not have had enough time to get out of there before it did.

I was under the impression they moved close to the Death Star to protect vulnerable sections once the deflector shield was disabled.

I feel surface area weapons would have caused more damage to each other. The smart move would have been to have the fleet advance at the rebel fleet.

The truth is this was a script decision. It would be ridiculous for the SSD to move closer to the DS as they would have had to go thru the entire rebel fleet to do so. Remember the imperials came up behind the rebels to pin them between them and the DS. The admiral himself ordered “hold here”. They were not going to move in for fear of getting in the way of the DS super weapon

The Golden BB. Gets them every time.

Japanese Kamikazee pilot: Are you sure about that?

No interstellar capable craft is unarmed. Try not to get caught up in the engine exhaust. XD Also, the kinetic energy of a moving object is linear with mass, but exponential with velocity...

Then why aren't they shooting actual projectiles but laser beams?

@@linden5480 cuz its cooler

His mistake was sparing piett after bespin.

I love the idea of Vader choking even the janitors who don't do a good enough job.

@@theknave1915 Piett I firmly believe was a good officer, Ive read several comments stating why it's more likely that the A-Wing "Destroying the SSD" was more like the final thing that brought it down. Someone even pointed out if it was gravity that brought it down, it should have went down equally with a tilt towards the engines since they're the heaviest, but instead it went nose diving, which means they were in some sort of tactical maneuver listing a certain way RIGHT when the A-Wing hit the bridge, and killed the, uh, Ill simply call him the driver. Its kinda like those cliche moments where someone dies while driving something, then their steering wheel gets caught and the vehicle just veers to that direction non-stop.

@@azazaz4627 I disagree. Piett proved in both movies he lacked the adaptivity or the level headedness to achieve victory. Moving the executor into the gravity well of the death star was foolish. Such a move only protects from capital ships. Time and again imperial officers underestimate the role of single seat fighters! And right at the end Piett panicks. What does he do, he orders to intensify the forward point defence. The time it takes to reroute the power and re-angle the point defense was too long and allowed the A-wing to slip through the flak screen and run the trench superstructure. The second officer says as much in his last words. The moment the bridge deflector failed Piett should have ordered transfer to the secondary bridge. But because he panicked and trusted too much on the firepower of his ship. 300,000 people lost there lives.

@@theknave1915 It was actually Emperor Palatine's fault. He order Piett not to use any of the Command ships to fire on the Rebels because he wanted to show the power of the second Death Star. Because of this, it led to a lot of confusion when the Rebels used the ships for protection against the Death Star.

Not everything holds up but like, damn! right, in so much how much still works and seems better than even the new series.

I've seen deleted scenes of return of the jedi

Didn’t ask

@@zx-oq9su the world doesn't revolve around you, things will happen you didn't ask for

G2 your parents didn’t ask for u and look what they got

Or, you know, deployed the *literally* ten thousand TIEs that were present. The total number launched appears to be a few hundred.

Its one thing what is said, but its another thing that thet Executor looks so pristine when its gowing down. And it just doesn't make sense that the basic functions of a ship of this size would in any way be affected by the loss of the bridge. Was there an officer on the lower decks panicking "The bridge is gone! I've no idea what to do now! Lets point the nose of the ship straight down, I think thats what they would have wanted me to do!" This whole scene would have made a lot more sense if we had seen, for example, battle damage to the engines instead of the bridge hit.

@@MareTranquil Part of that is the technology of the time. They spent seven weeks working almost 24/7 to get the Executor built. I don't think anyone on the SFX team was in a hurry to destroy or damage that model. Note how unlike a lot of other craft, they don't actually use charges to blow up the Executor, they just shoot a (fairly obvious) flame jet up out of the surface between it and the camera. Also none of the ships present accrue any sort of visible battle damage in the wide shots. The scene was complicated enough to work out as it was. Most of the ships were also composited repeatedly. There was only one full detail ISD, all close shots are that single model, so they had to be careful what they did to it. There are similarly only a handful of actual Mon Cal ships, they're just photographed from multiple angles and layered into the scene to flesh out the fleet. That's where we got the Tector, when they had to use an alternate model to layer two ISDs in a single shot, and somebody forgot to make sure the bottom wasn't visible.

@@d_valroth First of all, The Wrath of Khan had been made one year earlier, so "the technology of the time" did certainly allow for showing damage on spaceships. Secondly, if they were able to do this nice close-up shot of the damaged bridge, why not also use this for just one other shot somewhere else on the ship? Or, maybe, INSTEAD of the bridge shot? Thridly, if you're writing a scene that you can't or don't want put into your movie, then something has gone wrong. But most importantly, this is what we see: "Concentrate fire on this SSD" -> Fighters destroy shield generator -> "We've lost bridge deflector shields" -> "Concentrate forward firepower" -> Fighter crashes -> Explosion on bridge -> SSD, with visible damage to the bridge only, falls out of the sky. Now, if this was footage discovered by an archeologist, then you could certainly argue that these things are not connected to each other, and that you just dont have found any footage of the important things. And there seems to be a lot of this kind of thinking going on in the Star Wars fanbase. But this is a movie, not some found footage, and what you decide to show or not show has meaning. Its like some fans simply cannot accept that "I hope not too many people think about this" might have been a part of George Lucas' mindset for certain aspects of these movies.

@@MareTranquil I didn't say it wasn't possible, I said they were unwilling to do it. The Miranda-class model was made specifically for Wrath, and it was one of only two ships present in the entire battle sequence. It was easy to say "okay, we've shot all the scenes for this phase of the battle, now we'll damage both ship models and shoot the next" and so on. They could have damaged or destroyed the physical Executor model. They did not. It's alive and well today. Also, "I hope people don't think about this" sums up the entire Star Wars franchise. Parsecs are not a unit of time. Lightspeed will not get you across the galaxy in a week. Destroyers are one of the smallest navel vessels, not the biggest. Space generally requires thrusters facing in more than one direction. The EU is one massive fix fic that explains away all sorts of inaccurate or illogical statements. The novelization of RotJ even realizes that scene has issues and tries to add some stuff you just didn't see because it was off camera. Honestly, why Lucas didn't fix that instead of ruining Jabaa's palace in the special edition is beyond me. Edit: To be more clear, the technology they had did not allow for compelling CG or digital compositing, so they couldn't really fake damage to the Executor beyond the composited flames from the bridge and engine. Making it look good would require actually damaging the model, which they seemed very opposed to since there was no taking it back if any other footage turned out to need a reshoot.

@Zech Slade Rebel A-wings are still injustly underpowered for options in the TMG #Justice4RZ1s

Ahhh love me some X-Wing

@@thelonious2213 #Justice4RZ1s

Michael Andrei Palon it still better than most FPS games

Michael Andrei Palon awesome game, Terrible campaign.

I G Prab Unpopular opinion I liked the campaign. The only issue I have with it is how the alliance almost completely trusts Iden.

King of Sinter well the missions are pretty fun but it lacked depth. I didn’t grow to care that much about Iden.

@@gusp6612 Ruined the moment Iden became a rebel

Me: sees sensor dome Give this man a cookie. No give him two

In Star Wars battlefront a comment is made about the commander of the Super Star destroyer being a fool. That might suggest Imperial doctrine was to never to have super star destroyer get that close to a planetary body's gravity well.

It's always bugged me that computer games keep identifying the domes as being the shield generators. Surely an empire capable of controlling a galaxy would not put the main defence of their primary capital ships in such a vulnerable position. It's rather satisfying to have an explanation that makes more sense while not contradicting the events of the movies.

Matthew Caughey ROS showed Palpy had very deep pockets

Akray Bothorda The X-wing/TIE Fighter games were following the lead of WEG when they were producing the RPG. There were many factual errors in the WEG material that became ingrained in the 90s EU and carried over even to this day as canon.

I love that you said new continuity rather than new canon. As far as I'm concerned, Disney didn't decanonize legends (you can't really, it's all fiction), they just wanted make their own story separate from what was written before. (Off-topic, I know, sorry)

I imagine that the damage caused by the ramming A-wing somehow sent false signals to the ship controls, like a "short circuit" of a sorts, because you can clearly see it makes a sudden turn and speed increase and flies straight into the Death Star. The secondary bridge SHOULD have corrected for it, but it looks like they never gained control of the ship. I don't know if that was also because of the A-wing ram or other damage. Ackbar made a big gamble, but boy did it pay off!

@@Grubnar or the helms man had made those maneuvers before being killed and could not stop it (being dead)

@@Grubnar I wonder whether there could have been an EMP from those engines exploding... those are IIRC fusion engines, and if they go nuclear in atmosphere (such as inside of a command tower), there could have been enough air to be ionised to produce some degree of EMP, and because it all happened inside the ship, physical shielding against such an attack (such as from ion cannon) could have been bypassed... however, I'm not sure if I get the physics behind that correctly... Of course, that would have even larger implications for the universe as a whole, but it migt be already the case in lore... in NJO: Destiny's Way, Vergere used A-wing in a suicide run against Yuuzhan Vong at Ebaq 9 and the resulting crater was radioactive for days...

I suspect the internal portions of a ship are not designed to stop a very fast, explosively disintegrating object such as an A-Wing once the hull has been penetrated. Effectively, the A-Wing acted like a DU tank-gun round, igniting and detonating all around it and ripping through the bulkheads.

I see it that way as well. It's possible that with the damage done to the ship that it would have taken time for secondary control centers to regain control of the ship which they didn't have.

Eck forgot to mention that Executer was in the middle of a battle maneuver when the bridge was knocked out. that is from the old cannon but the movie shows it dropping and it looks like its trying to escape from the Mon Cals that are attacking it.

Yeah it would sure have been severely crippled just like the Nimitz from some pirate dinghies lol

Well, they lost their bridge and lost control long enough to crash. Never noticed the damaged engine before, but that exacerbated the problem.

@@bedolschnutzler2604 absurdly large pirate dinghies armed to the teeth with anti-carrier weaponry?

In addition to agreeing with you I'd like to add that George Lucas was fond of the David vrs Goliath theme.

Have you seen the crazy flight maneuvers of the star destroyers and their totally overly confident pilots?

Rule of Cool explains a lot of Star Wars WTF moments... ;)

It allso makes sense . wehen the bridge was destroyed. The ssds engines turned of. it started to drift. Since it was so close. It was afected by the second eath stars gravity field. Which pulled the ssd toward the second death star.

Also the bridge deflector shield was destroyed which is where all the controls are with the shield destroyed making the super star destroyer vulnerable to attacks with the bridge without shield no defense a single ship crashing through the bridge the super star destroyer is screwed crashing into the deathstar blowing up and that's the reason why it got destroyed not just that but the deathstar shield generator also protected the fleet but Han Solo takes out the shield generator so the star destroyers have there own shield but taking a bunch of hits the shield can't hold forever

Immature. Logic>cool.

@@clashman7564 basically 🤣

Too late!

*MASSED EXPLOSION*

@Kenneth Boyer It's a joke

I disagree. The DS2 had several gravity generators producing at least 1 standard G. So while the external effects wouldn't be as extreme as you get with natural gravity fields, it was probably widespread enough to act as a navigation hazard. And if you have a ship with multiple damaged engines suddenly lose its primary helm and experienced helm officers, there obviously wasn't time for the backup systems to cut in before the fall into the DS2 was unrecoverable.

The Executer was in the middle of a rapid battle maneuver. In the expanded universe it says so and in the movie you can see it dropping as Admiral Akbar orders the attack. IF the ship was pulling a sharp maneuver to avoid damage to its bridge and it suddenly lost control (even temporarily) it could easily crash in to an object as large as the Death Star. Watch the part where Akbar orders a full attack- the SSD is dropping and trying to get away. look at 2:30 on the video shown. offical head cannon: when Executer started taking damage it started to withdraw- when it lost its bridge deflector shields the helms men started to maneuver the ship's bridge away from the MC-80s (scene at 2:43) that were attacking however when the bridge was knocked out the ship lost control before its auxiliary control could correct the mistake. By the time they could take control it was "to late"

Maybe the engines were still engaged in an attempt to stabilize the ship but it was losing that battle to the Death Star's gravity and once the ship was pointing directly at the Death Star, the active main engines ended up just accelerating the ship into the surface which is why it was going that fast when it hit. By the time they cut the engines, they'd already be coasting pretty fast into the "ground" just like a plane heading full throttle toward earth for even 2 seconds and then cutting engines would still be completely screwed without a course correction.

I agree. Also if it had been gravity it wouldn't have pulled nose first. Planes on earth crash nose first because of aerodynamics which isnt a thing here. Gravity should have pulled the whole thing down equally with a list towards the engines since that's probably the heaviest part. So I agree the destruction of the bridge prob caused it to steer out of control into the death star II.

I could swear there was an EU source which said the engines engaged as a result of the destruction of the primary bridge, and by the time the battle bridge commander got them turned off, it was too late to pull up. Of course if it's EU it's also easy to say that IG-88 did it. He had the tech specs of both Executor and DS2, and was in the process of hijacking DS2.

Man, too soon...

That sounds evil.

Not too when you become a stormtrooper you sign a contract that you are useless and will die

if you're just some system technician, unless you're looking out a view port you ain't gonna know until you're dead

@@MaxwellAerialPhotography well, I'm actually a sysadmin and... Because of gravity and stuff I would imagine how could be being into a gargantuan ship going full speed without control... I still think that it's terrifying

No

The Executer actually had a crew of 300k not 100k.

That makes way more sense in my eyes

Yeah right, it was out of control, like a drifting boat. Also, there was a drastic shift in the Force to the rebels advantage when the Darth Vader went Jedi and "killed" the Emperor.

Well, that's because that's what "really" happened in the movie before some dipshit decided to over-complicate it..

@@toddb3226 It’s not being over complicated, it’s being explained in a believable and interesting way that agrees with Star Wars lore. It makes no sense for the entire Executor to be disabled and sent into an unrecoverable crash course just from the bridge being destroyed. That’s assuming the A-Wing even managed to take it out which is already a little ridiculous given no context. It was a command center, nothing more. It didn’t house any systems so critical that it would lead directly to the ship’s destruction alone. There were numerous other factors. Not to mention that it was a highly advanced ship manned by the Empire’s best within the Navy. There were backup plans and systems in place for such contingencies. Another command center with additional officers would quickly be assigned control of the ship.

That's what I always assumed from the first time I watched it as a kid. You're literally destroying the area that controls the ship. A plane can't fly without a functional cockpit!

It's called Battle Meditation and it was a very advanced Force Power. It was a big subplot of Knights of the Old Republic.

I've always hated the idea that Palpatine was literally controlling the minds of an entire fleet. I mean, the idea itself is pretty ludicrous, and it makes the Force seem too overpowered for something that Palpatine could just do casually; but it makes it seem like these guys can't even function as soldiers, pilots, etc. without Palpatine holding their hand.

@@mitchellhayward6492 I actually tend to think that he wasn't controlling their minds directly, that it was more like when they were around him, he was using his Force abilities to make them more focused and efficient. This could also explain the TIE fighter's "incompetence" by explaining that when he died, there was a sudden loss of that focus, which allowed the A-wing to get through.

@@mitchellhayward6492 It wasn't Palpatine. It was Grand Admiral Nial Declann who was keeping the Battle Meditation up. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nial_Declann And no, they can function just fine without Palpatine/Declann/Joruus C'Baoth holding their hand. The Battle Meditation improves their effectiveness though. The issue was, that the Meditation was just "cut off", basically. Imagine these instances where you feel fit and willing to do everything... and then, the next moment, maybe due to the weather, you're just dead tired. It's probably kinda like this. The link, and the "buff" was gone, from one moment to the other, causing major disorientation etc. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_meditation

The problem with Nial Declann being the battle meditator is that we have incoherent chronologies in Legends. Zahn wrote before Wallace & Peña created Declann, so it's free choice within old canon as to the correct explanation. I prefer Zahn's simply because I like his story style better.

Heh well it was probs really because it was getting too expensive to make a entire new bridge so they just slapped the ISD one on and callled it a day

@@davidty2006 Though later model estimates do make the tower a wider one, slightly (289 m vs 275 or less)

The bridge is the same size as an Imperial Star Destroyer to show how the ships are in the same family, it's a standard Kuat Drive Yards feature. But also, to help the viewer to scale the ship in their minds. Having many more lights (windows) helps with this too.

@@davidty2006 Are you familiar with the old-school custom of "kit bashing" that model builders utilized in the 80s? You're probably more right than you realize.

Rebellion-heika banzai!

Zero-wing

it's 'a long time ago', so it's retro-kamikaze ;)

The nose is also shaped to an edge, so it can probably stab into the ship a little deeper rather than just smashing against the hull

Code geass ftw :)

Lelouch

Michael Andrei Palon Lol he’s right tho

A successful suicide attack is almost the exact OPPOSITE of plot armor.

@@Iknowtoomuchable Not plot armor for that guy, but plot armor for the rebels as a whole.

Huh. It would still make that bloop.bloop sound too?

@Tin Watchman Remember, the Executor's super structure is massive so that one impact wont set the whole thing on fire so maybe only for a few floors as the A wing is just about the same size as a modern fighter jets.

After the destruction of the bridge, the gravity of the Death Star attracted the executor to it

@Tin Watchman I would imagine a ship of this caliber and size would have multiple bridges, and by multiple I mean more than 2. The destruction of the main bridge should also have no effect at all on engines or attitude control. Frankly, if this were based on real life, the Executor would not have gone down.

In real life if a mosquito kamikazied into you, would you fall over? This scene makes no logical sense whatsoever. They needed the command ship to be destroyed.

This is a long time misnomer. And it being in reference books means nothing since they don't even have the correct sizes for Executor and Home One. Pablo measured the actual physical model against the mini Star Destroyer model built to scale to the Executor and it comes out to 13km. Home One is supposed to be twice the length of a Star Destroyer. Those are not shield generators but sensor globes, clearly inspired by Naval RADOMES. Check out this page - www.theforce.net/swtc/towers.html#globes Ackbar orders a bombardment which overloads the shields. The sensor globe is destroyed to indicate the shields have fallen. Also it would make no sense to place shield generators externally a ship on such exposed devices that could be easily destroyed. And why would the shield generators themselves not be shielded? Also I am glad that Eckhart got this right. But your basic idea is correct I think. No control of the ship. Also there are GIANT FLAMES coming out of the engines that a lot of people seemed to miss, that Eckhart pointed out here as well, so clearly they were damaged too.

I agree. His job was to keep more Rebel fighters from getting inside the battle station. Compared to the Death Star his ship is expendable, if it worked trading an SSD for the survival of the Death Star would have been an economical trade.

Let's not forget the initial purpose of the Imperial fleet was to destroy the Rebel Alliance fleet, however once the Death star's shield generator went down the role of the Imperial Fleet dramatically changed. Piett took it upon himself to move his ship close to defend the Death Star. That is why Admiral Ackbar focused fire on to it. Piett did what any good Admiral would have done in that situation.

It's still a kind of dumb explanation. Why wouldn't you just build a bunch of remote A-Wings and aim them at capital ships? I appreciate the effort to explain away what was nothing more than a "cool effects shot", but in the end it was nothing but a cool effects shot. Star Wars never makes any sense when you think too hard about it and it's not supposed to. The original trilogy was nothing more than a Flash Gordon rip off, albeit an awesome one at that. Making these convoluted excuses for the films only puts a magnifying glass on the plot holes.

@@avenuePad reminds me of a certain hyperspace jump

@Matthew Caughey i wrote in a reply above that the helmsman was in the middle of a battle maneuver to take the bridge out of the line if fire when he was killed. if you loose control at the wrong time even temporarily it is beyond the control of an auxiliary crew to do anything to correct the mistake. When your as big as an SSD and heading strait at something as big as the Death Star you are not going to be able to re take control. As for the A-wings "fuel bomb" thing its not like an unshielded bridge needs that to destroy it even blasters should be able to break through the bridge and kill the crew.

@@avenuePad aren't remote A-Wings aimed at capital ships the exact same thing as missiles?

He kinda had to be brave to be there in the first place.

The Empire ruled mostly by fear, so I think this can be partially explained by the fact that Imperial military assets (especially TIE Fighters and any superweapons) are intimidating and have good firepower, but other than that are absolute shit (i.e. no survivability)

Much like the fearsome storm.troopers who can't hit anything, Imperial ships are vastly overrated. The Empire was like the Soviet Union. They claimed every weapon was unbeatable but in reality they were more roar than lion

The rebels could've easily been receiving reinforcements throughout the battle, particularly of the rebel ships we DONT see (Captured CIS ships, augmented civilian ships, other fleets that didn't make it to the rendezvous). It's actually a pretty simple explanation... also the Empire doesn't know what point defence is, the Star Destroyers weren't utilised as well as they could be and command kinda collapsed after the Executor was destroyed

Ty honestly I think Lucas belief was that the Emperor ruled by fear and once he died the entire Star Fleet simply lost the motivation to fight. This would mean that they really didn’t believe in the Empires Purpose and knew they were fighting for the wrong side. It’s either that or the entire premise that the rebellion won at that point is badly flawed

"I go now to lead brave men and women into what will be, for many of them, death. They go willingly, out of devotion to a state which unfortunately is not worthy of it. But, as someone once said, it is the quality of the passion that matters, not its object." -Admiral Ivan Antonov, Terran Federation Navy (Starfire Series Novels)

ish. I f I worked for a company that had a 'death star' and employed 'death troopers' I'd start working on my CV :)

The other hazard for the bridge crew was that they could be force choked to death by Darth Vader for even minor screw ups.

@Naziah Morris can you translate that into Basic?

I'd chalked the lack of secondary command center to the same sort of design philosophy that had the majority of the bridge crew working in five-foot deep pits, and did not provide seating for the senior officers.

My theory has always been that Palpatine, using the force, gotta 'lil dust in his eye.

I think the Covenant would win because they have a much larger fleet, but if the fleet sizes are equalized then I think the Terran Dominion would win

Seeing as the hit has already occurred by the time the sensor triggers, the second one is useless.

In legends, it's stated to have a 6 lightsecond range, if I remember correctly.

Almost 1.8 million kilometers or for the Americans 1.1 million miles

@@vexile12 does the laser just fizzle out after travelling that distance?

@@wearsjorge55 Possibly... we don't really know. I suppose that the laser rapidly loses cohesion beyond the given range like any real laser would. In this case, it means that the superlaser would still cause a tremendous amount of damage, but spread out over an increasingly greater area as you go further and further beyond the maximum usable range until at some point it just doesn't have enough energy per unit area to do anything meaningful to what it hits.

wearsjorge55 well it would obviously have to

Actually if we go based on legends materials it makes a lot more sense, the executor right about before the the bridge was taken out had taken severe damage from the rebel capital ships, one of the main hangers was engulfed in flames from an attack by the millennium falcon, and heavy attacks from a wing of B-wings has set majority of her stern ablaze and she had begun listing hard to starboard, the when the A-wing hit the bridge it fuel caused a chain reaction which resulted in the middle section of the star destroyers power stations to be wiped out sending her full into a right turn dive, by that point it, the damage was so extensive that damage control couldn't regain control in the auxiliary command, which means there is no longer and flight controls keeping them up and subsequently pulled in by the death star's gravity wells

Well the a wing seems to have through the window before exploding so maybe the force of it threw the controls forward before the linkage broke?

This is my theory as well. When the bridge windows blew out, and since shields were totally down, it would have cause an explosive decompression, and since no one wore seat belts, they would have all been sucked out, and the pilot, on his way out may have hit the controls, pitching the shit over. and accelerating it at the same time. Follow flight controls on a plane, full throttle is forward, pitch down is also forward, hit both on the way out, pitch down, full throttle at the same time. and BOOM.

That was a year before the battle of Endor, by that point the ship had already been reserviced multiple times at Kuat Drive Yards and Fondor's shipyards. Additionally, the Executor's particle shielding was never breached during the chase through the asteroid field, so it never actually took damage.

Only the ISD 2 _Inexorable_ was actually damage during the protracted chase, losing it's bridge tower to a skyscraper sized asteroid that was missed on approach.

Asteroids are no concern to me I want that ship no excuses

And more importantly, the Plot and the Script.

The force of gravity

@@VulpisFoxfire bruh lmao

Rip to your Grandma

Did she fly the A-Wing?

@@yourstruly4817 lol, no. She WAS the A-wing

I doubt he could have done much better then the empire did in a new hope and empire strikes back since they were generally well on top in both of those moves and only lost the first death star due to a force guided missile that he could never have accounted for. Return of the Jedi I reckon he would significantly change strategies, probably building a dummy death star to lure the rebels in and attack them all out with the rest of the imperial fleet while they wasted resources trying to kill a non existent threat.

@@TyrannosaurusCHEX ...Excellent points. I can only add that, his fleet would have been in perfect range at Hoth, to trap the rebels. Your point about the first death star is perfect. And his battle line at Endor would not have failed, he would have a clear line of command. Even should he die.

That's pretty much what happened he orders all fighters to attack the super star destroyer taken enough hits the bridge shield gets destroyed that's the command center with all the controls ackbar is skiled tactician but than gets blown up in the last Jedi that pissed me off ackbar is smarter than that

Nathan Skywalker dude, it was two years ago. let it go. Wasn’t even talking about TLJ.

What's worse is Battlefront actively shows an SSD taking off from a planetary surface, so i'm gonna say the engines went haywire