I’m not really all THAT hung up on this, and I am ready to let it go and enjoy this movie. I was just happy to hear that I wasn’t the only one thinking about this. There was such fervor over the crossguard saber early on that I wondered why no one was really bringing this up.

They have some sort of ‘gravity generation’ technology. Apparently, the outer layers (like the crust) of the Death Star were oriented in toward the core, but the inner parts and the equatorial area was oriented down toward the south pole. This has also always fascinated me, because I would have thought that something…

I guess the whole gassy, floaty nature of the place gave the fake physics some sort of pass in my mind.

My (likely flawed) memory is of the falcon launching from this places, not really like flying around.

I do - I guess I’m just hung up on the goofy “cross secyions” and “vehicles of the Star Wars universe” type books, which sort of bridge the Disney canon and the EU.

I’m relaxed - these are just fun things to thing about is all. And who said I had no problem with noisy engines in space?

I’ve just always understood repulsorlifts to have something to do with magnetic fields, and have the limited ability to just elevate a ship off of a planet’s surface, and that you would need to consider aerodynamics when it comes to maneuvering through an atmosphere.

Sure - in this (or any) fictional world, they COULD do anything. OBVIOUSLY. I think my point that you might be missing is that they HAVEN’T. This fictional galaxy has been slowly built for decades by scores of writers that have all more or less kept within similar basic technological conceits. One of them is that…

No one’s drawing any lines, just getting into the fantasy. The “pseudo-science” has been established for nearly 40 years now for this fictional galaxy, and it seems like responsible storytelling to adhere to it - that’s all.

YES! all these starships operating in atmosphere has been making me crazy! So glad I’m not the only one. This is how I have come to understand the fictional STAR WARS technology: