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How did gravity worked on the Death Star? (feddit.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There was always gravity on pretty much any ship

And if the ship got damaged where the nose started falling (downward?) the gravity would shift towards the nose so that everyone went sliding across the floor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That only happened near planets.

Star Wars ships don't orbit. They simply hang in the sky, in much the same way that bricks don't. In Star Trek ships orbit to save on fuel costs while parked near a planet. But in Star Wars antigravity is so cheap that it's more efficient to be stationary relative to the planet's surface. Which means no microgravity.