Star Wars' completely nonsense technology (which I love)

In today's video we'll take a look at one of the sillier aspects of Star Wars - the magical repulsorlift. All that and more on today's Star Wars video!
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[@OptimisticSturmmann142]

Why do Star Wars vehicles have six pedals if there are only four directions?

[@AdmiralBlackstar]

I get that reference 😂

[@OptimisticSturmmann142]

@@AdmiralBlackstar I knew someone will get it. Good job.

[@jfox8006]

Based RvB reference

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

There are six directions...

[@STRAKAZulu]

Eight

[@hmyang4308]

It’d be pretty crazy if like you had repulsorlifts in real life. Imagine repulsorlift shoes tho that would be cool

[@nickmalachai2227]

Heelys 2: A Heel Beyond

[@patsey3199]

Shadow the Hedgehog style

[@dustybunny6716]

It would the next police chase I see more interesting. Could you imagine a Florida man using one of these things? Its safer to let an Ewok steal a speeder bike.

[@mattstorm360]

@@dustybunny6716 I'm reminded of the story of 'aliens' flying over a forests. Turned out to be illegal miners flying over with an omni hoverboard.

[@jejeakle]

We have something similar. We have hovercraft which are used for amphibious operations

[@drizzmatec]

My friends and I were theory crafting about how the buildings on Courscant stay up and we came to the conclusion that they would have to be achored directly to the planets core, and repulsorlifts would help them from collapsing under their own weight.

[@stuartl7761]

Oh yeah, you're probs right on that. There's probably repulsorlifts and gravity tech dotted throughout most cityscapes. Perhaps a form of shield projector tech could help with the really big structures. And maybe a tractor beam for when the architects really let loose.

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

there's also tensor fields which hold together objects.

[@AberrantChibi]

After recently watching a lore vid on Coruscant's various levels, I did wonder on how the architecture was supposed to bear such loading. I hadn't even considered repulsorlifts or tensor fields. It's a good theory.

[@JediSentinal]

There are also things like tensor fields (used in the c9979 landing craft) that exist to help large objects stay together in scenarios like that, wouldn't be surprised if something like that helped. However the lower levels must be supported by some sort of super material because the weight above them... Holy shit 😂

[@Ranstone]

Fun fact: Real skyscrapers have electronic rust inversion currents in the metal frame. The frame doesn't rust, and will even un-rust as long as power is applied to the building. Also, some buildings have The moment power cuts, the building loses power, it will begin to rust like any normal building. Also, while nothing more than a complex pendulum, skyscrapers have somthing called "Tuned mass dampeners" which allow them to better survive high winds while remaining stable. Real life is crazier than you think, man!

[@ParkerAndres-tm8bo]

#askeck say I was a person trying to overthrow a government in Star Wars. What planet should I go to to start and I am not some with or Jedi and I don’t know where any super weapons are or force gods I missed a guy with the dream. Are there any people willing to support my movement or any governments? Legends preferably

[@ParkerAndres-tm8bo]

I’m am not taking over the whole galaxy just enough for a little area of territory, I do not care how the galaxy plays out after that whether it splits up or stays similar to the Republic or empire

[@Number1Irishlad]

Id think Onderron or Ryloth. No good reason, just have a feeling

[@oneMeVz]

I'm surprised you didn't touch on repulsor lift jamming...

[@Xazamas]

Haven't heard of active counter-measures for repulsorlifts, but realistically, that would be a thing if at all possible. Somewhat related, Empire at War has few planets where you can't deploy repulsorlift vehicles, because "environmental conditions interfere with them" or something like that.

[@littlekong7685]

@@Xazamas The big one is shield bubbles. They basically ground out repulsors on contact. i could see police style flat shield barricades to essentially jam out repuslor craft, then tractor them to the ground for arrest.

[@isaacchillman11]

It’s so confusing but so cool at the same time I love when I get into arguments with the boys on Discord at like 1 in the morning over this stuff lol 🤣🤣

[@mrscary3105]

Do you think vacuum is not the state of the Star Wars universe outer space? Is this why space ships fly like airplanes? (It's my SWRPG logic)

[@Chrisspru]

starwars has "ether" and "ethereal rudders"

[@Voltaic_Fire]

You mean like a Treasure Planet kind of deal? It would explain a lot.

[@BierBart12]

I remember seeing someone go in-depth about this, comparing it to the luminiferous aether Might also explain why blaster bolts lose energy so quickly and battles have to be fought at close range

[@mrscary3105]

@@Chrisspru I had to figure on that so I can have a base for the physics of the game.

[@caliperstorm8343]

The Thrawn Trilogy and X-Wing series mentions “etheric rudders”, which are used the bank the ships like airplanes. I don’t think there’s ever been elaboration on the specifics, though

[@---jx3ql]

Repulsor tech and no cloud city mention ,i am disapointed

[@AkronBaja]

Repulsorlifts wouldn't make rockets obsolete, but they could be hugely beneficial to space programs. Repulsorlift assisted launches could mean getting much much larger payloads into space, and would be greatly beneficial to reusable rockets. It could open up the possibility for other propulsion like Ion thrusters to be used much more reasonably.

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

I mean, how exactly do they stay at a fixed distance above the ground? If they make things weightless, then couldn't you just toss a speeder bike or whatever into the stratosphere?

[@thedatatreader]

Based on the size of the powerplant, I'd assume there's a correlation between the amount of power required and the resulting lift. To control the height, you simply lower the power output which makes the field weaker. Additionally you could concievably say speeder bikes may be capable of flight, but they are designed to propel themselves only forward and backward rather than up.

[@commandoepsilon4664]

I can't say by what mechanism that they maintain altitude, weather there is a ground tracking sensor or the default operation of the device requires more power to achieve a higher altitude (thus a set power level would naturally maintain a specific height) or something else entirely. What I can say is: even if they completely canceled out the weight of the object you still couldn't easily throw them around as their mass is unchanged, so even if you shoved a speeder with a lot of force it still wouldn't move very fast (assuming it has about as much mass as you do). Also to my knowledge repulsor lifts don't make things weightless, they just provide counter force the same way a helicopter's rotor does, but without all the noise and rotor wash.

[@Scudboy17]

Repulsar lifts require gravity to work. The farther you travel from a large body, like a planet, the less gravity there is to react with. More powerful repulsar lifts can react with lower gravity and reach higher altitudes. Smaller lifts do not have the power to do little more than get the vehicle a few meters above the ground.

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

@@thedatatreader height relative to what; the planet's center of gravity, or the height of the ground? The machine isn't generating lift (high air pressure below an object and low pressure above it) it's using antigravity to cancel out an object's gravitational mass, making it effectively weightless. It ought to need some secondary propulsion mechanism to maintain its relative position.

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

@@commandoepsilon4664 if its gravitational mass has been cancelled out by antigravity, then even a gentle push should be enough to make it float away into space. I am generously ignoring the fact that it shouldn't maintain ANY relative position to the planet's surface.

[@murder.simulator]

All this amazing technology but still can't find a way to keep Leah from giving herself black eyes when she runs

[@Themightyhuntsman]

How do you think a at-at would fight against something like a battlemech from MechWarrior

[@violentneon2999]

6:40 Ion drives are the new tech to use to replace rockets however currently they lack the power for larger ships and are used (more so experimentally) on satellites and space probs.

[@caliperstorm8343]

Ion drives are relatively efficient (specific impulse above 3000 seconds), but they have thrust comparable to the weight of a piece of paper. Crewed mission designs using them have to slowly spiral in and out of gravity wells, which makes it take significantly longer to get anywhere. I don’t think they will ever be practical for anything other than probes or RCS thrusters. For crewed spacecraft, nuclear engines (fission or eventually fusion) are the most practical option. We already developed some in the 70’s, and with the DRACO mission we’re working on them again

[@Cornel101]

#askeck which starships from other franchises do you think could fit in the Star Wars Galaxy without looking too out of place for both the characters and us the viewers.

[@miggypeso909]

Battlestar Galactica,Babylon 5,and Buck Rogers would fit in just fine.

[@Morinehtur]

Twiggy would get along great with R2. Or is it Twinky? I don't remember.

[@codybergman5991]

A thought on the comment of repulsorlifts not working in space: while I accept this is law in SW, you point out that they produce a gravity field. Gravity is a product of mass/energy that as best as we know warps space/time. If you look at an Alcubierre Warp Drive, it operates on the principle of warping spacetime in a way that drags the ship and it's surrounding space/time along. In principle on the most surface level, a repulsorlift of sufficient power could also probably interact with spacetime itself , allowing a reaction less drive in space. Yes, I know: world of space wizards with laser swords. Still ;)

[@caliperstorm8343]

Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire proved that you still need a rocket engine of some kind to accelerate a warp bubble. You can’t just start moving without some kind of momentum exchange with the outside universe, not even with a warp drive. Regardless, Star Wars isn’t really relativity-compliant anyway. Ships literally push off of the luminiferous ether to turn.

[@maximusrex7616]

#AskEck How come the dark empires galaxy gun was so small compared to other planet destroying super weapons or even super star destroyers? The galaxy gun is only said to be around 7km whilst a SSD is said to be 19km

[@drtaverner]

Honestly, I think that when we properly figure out Gravity, we'll develop repulsors. Once we really understood the Electromagnetic Force it was less than a hundred years before we had computers in our homes. Once we properly understand the Gravitic Force, we'll have repulsors within, say 50 years.

[@NomicFin]

Repulsorlifts seem, especially if the stuff about the cross-section book where they make use of exotic matter harvested from around black holes is true, like one of those technologies that requires a lot of investment and advanced tech base the get going, but once you've past that initial hurdle they're cheap and easy to make. In this case, you'd need to build massive refinery-stations in orbit of black holes, which would be very difficult and expensive, but once you've got the supply chain up and running the process of actually making repulsorlifts is simple and only limited by the amount of exotic matter you can harvest (which would have made the first repulsorlifts very rare and expensive, but as more refineries get built the cost rapidly goes down). As for the Mon Cala ships, water is really freaking heavy, so you probably want to avoid filling your ships with and massively increasing their mass. Makes more sense to just have some compartments with pools or bathtubs for the fish-people to be able to occasionally submerge themselves.

[@tatepalmer1997]

Factions compared idea sci fi insect swarm. Such as Tyranids, Arachnids, Zerg, Rachni, Terminids.

[@stuartl7761]

Repulsorlifts are maybe my favourite piece of tech in Star Wars cause of how its always there in the background. Great piece of world building. Seeing how it's integrated across all areas of society really makes the world feel real, lived in, cohesive, and it's just really cool aesthetic that anything can just float. I also have to think there's probably some connection to the gravity bending tech that keeps everyone on the floor in even the most bare bones starships, which is just as ubiquitous in it's own right. And given that launching things from further in a gravity well exponentially increases fuel and cost of rockets, any antigravity bump would be really benefitable for rockets, even if they don't get it to space.

[@h4ogaming492]

#Askeck can you do a video on what type of civilization on the Kardadive scale the Star Wars universe is? I think what would be very interesting.

[@captain4ssassin490]

Aren't there also cross-sections revealing watertunnels in the MC ships allowing aquatic species to travel across them?

[@theromanorder]

Please do more tactics video.. mabey stuff like the cis navy structure and ranks

[@cliffcorson4000]

On a use for repulser ships in RW You could use them to lift a space capable ship high enough that it would use less fuel to reach orbit, or even use it as a ferry to reach high altitude and launch materials to a station When they were looking at various space shuttle types and replacements a 2-stage system was looked at where it could lift off as a plane and on high altitude launch the 2nd stage to orbit

[@MarvelX42]

Also filling a ship that big with water would add soooooo much more mass that would have to be pushed around.

[@satakrionkryptomortis]

the first thing that would get that tech is most likely tanks. heavy tanks.

[@brianmurphy250]

I found it weird that while sometimes they have repulsor lift vehicles…we get jaws sandcrawlers…those giant imperial monster trucks and AT ATs with legs.

[@MGone3]

Some planets have certain conditions that make it difficult or impossible for repulsors to work. I know the reason is weird but it is an in-universe reason. Another reason could be ease of repair. A lower tech world could replace drive trains but may have difficulty replacing components for repulsors. Military vehicles have a lot of armor and weapons so you need bigger repulsors and a bigger power plant. Or you could keep the bigger power plant with more weapons and armor if you cut out the repulsors. There is another reason. The walkers and trucks are intimidating.

[@brianmurphy250]

@@MGone3 thanks for the thoughtful reply/analysis. Makes perfect sense.

[@AdmiralBlackstar]

Repulsor lift datapads? Awesome. I'd suggest floating tvs and whatnot but Star Wars has Holograms.

[@Everie]

Well, Andor has shown us that even though they have Holocrons, they still use a TV-like technology

[@dustybunny6716]

One thing I couldn't figure out about holograms. One person talking to another and they have their end in the palm of their hand, sometimes the other person sees jut the face of the other, other times it shows the whole body and usually not holding anything. Filming error perhaps, or do the holograms get programmed to show bodies with some modifications?

[@baronjutter]

Repulsorlifts would certainly make getting into space easier. 90% of the effort of a rocket is just getting into orbit, if a solid-state lift technology of some sort could get you 90% into space, the liquid fuel rocket portion could be drastically cut down and only used for proper in-space travel.

[@Maegnas99]

Yep. Any kind of anti gravity we develop as humans would overnight boost our technology levels to obscene heights. You could put satellites into orbit practically free, so that means unlimited internet and communication. You could have orbital solar panels thousands of kilometers wide and just beam power down to relays. Instantly remove the need for fossil fuels. You could put up modular orbital habitats that you build on land, so there's housing and overpopulation solved.

[@Arashmickey]

I'd get a repulsorlift Spishak Mach 20 Razor. It would just hover above the bowl and brush when I'm not shaving.

[@wyvernbravo]

We have advanced ion engines We have solar panels We even have basic laser weapons (ik theyre not the same as blasters) Alls we need is repulsor lift tech and we can make the TIE line of starships

[@jktalay96]

I think you've done in this past where you build your "ideal fleet" for certain factions. Have you done one for the galatic republic?

[@MrMonkeybat]

Cheap efficient repulsor lifts would make wheels, roads, railways, maglevs, navigation canals, ports, boats, ocean ships, wings, helicopter, airports and yes rockets obsolete. With speeders and hover trucks you don't need roads with frictionless forcefields repelling the ground you travel more energy efficiently than any railway or boat as efficiently as a maglev without the expensive elaborate track. Even fishing trawlers hover to their fishing grounds as it is quicker and more efficient then hover back to their parking space like any over hover truck so they don't need a dock, granted hovering over water requires longer range forcefields than hovering over land, but judging by the hover height of Jabba's barge it should work over water. You are not restricted by road size so big industrial hover barges replace trains and oil tankers. A hover barge delivers a full size home to your property from the house factory. A force field that can push down air about 10 meters around your craft can fly like a helicopter or plane making those obsolete. Extend the force field a hundred meters and you can fly efficiently in the upper stratosphere, with little air friction do the kinetic energy equations and your flying car with a present day electric car battery pack can fly to the other side of the world supersonically. With the addition of solar panels or a nuclear reactor you can slowly accelerate to orbital speed. The vacuum of space is not perfect there are still atoms ions, and the odd speck of dust for a long range repulsor lift to push off, so you can navigate between planets like this, so repulsor lifts DO make rockets obsolete, the glowing engines on the back of Star Wars engines are just fusion generators for their repulsor lift propulsion providing little propulsion themselves. These long range repulsor lift force fields could also preserve angular momentum with surrounding planets and space particles and transmit sound so we can explain all of SWs "scientific inaccuracies" with this repulsor lift technobabble. Repulsor lifts are pushing down the ground or air so they don't violate conservation of momentum or energy like anti gravity. As soon as I get round to growing rochelle salt crystals I will show the world how easy it is to build a repulsor lift in your own home.

[@sentrysapper45]

Funnily enough, there are actual cars with wheels in the Star Wars galaxy as well. Some worlds have atmospheric conditions that interfere with repulsors, while others are simply isolated and very low-tech.

[@FakeJeep]

I could finally get my back to the future hoverboard....

[@CatRaph]

This is what people misunderstand about repulsorlifts: Factories use black hole to tie spacetime into knots. This is not anti-gravity! It´s more like a levitating hook you can hang stuff on. Repulsorlift technology doesn´t power or generate any gravity, it just tells this "hook" where to move and thus brings the speeder with it. That´s why it´s so ubiquitous even tiny droids can use it without any large machinery. Pre-disney the word anti-gravity was rarely used in the books, but the new disney cross sections say anti-gravity generator which IMO is wrong and not what repulsorlifts are.

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

This is why Eck is the best for this stuff cause i never wouldve noticed/thought the absolute monopoly repulsorlift have on the SW universe without this. Granted from what were shown its prob like electricity today.. just considered apart of life and not a new fancy invention

[@gerrittwesselink1147]

You can’t forget about the wrist mounted Mando repulsors used by Sabine in Rebels (T) I’ve found it interesting to learn the different tech if star wars. Thanks for the vid 💚

[@RoboticPope]

3:20 If replusor lift engines create an antigravity field as mentioned at 1:26, then they don't require a surface to "push" against. Also ships above a planet's atmosphere would still need to have repulsorlift engines to remain stationary above one area of the planet like we usually see in star wars. The battle Luke saw in the cut tatooine scene in ANH was stationary (not orbiting the planet) so both ships would have to be using repulsor lift engines to stay up there. Gravity doesn't stop when you leave the atmosphere, it gradually weakens as the distance from the massive object increases. A craft like the. Snowspeeder would have to have a limiter of some kind to stop it being able to get too high for the other flight controls (that require air movement to work ).

[@FattyMcFox]

I think in some Legends Tabletop games there was a repulsor/tractor beam weapon called a "Tensor Rifle" that could push people around. Always wanted to see one in a game.

[@JohanSkotkonung]

ATGMS with repulsorlifts would be crazy

[@sportybrian]

Repulsor Lifts don't really make sense in real life because there is such a tiny difference in gravity between sea level and at a mile of elevation. Not to mention the ground-hugging vehicles that would supposedly float upward in an elevator or continue level across a bridge. If we had them on Earth they would only be suitable for ships that crossed the ocean, because it would be basically level, or in combination with rotors for helicopter-like vehicles. But we still have no more idea how to counteract gravity than control time, even as weak as gravity is.

[@GuardianSage]

Thank you for the video, though what happened to your classic outro with the cute dog and head pats?

[@goodmusicofthegoodkind]

Superly Eck, fantastically sauce. Corey Datasworth with Charlie B. Awesomely Eck-tastic.

[@tylercross8877]

I love this channel. I've been watching since very early on. I don't comment much and life make it's hard to get to the livestreams but I still love the channel

[@stainlesssteelfox1]

I always thought repulsorlifts operated not by generating anti-gravity, but by altering the existing vector of local gravity. 'Fixed' repulsorlift - Balances gravity vector into an upwards and downwards component so they cancel out. Minus enough from the upward vector to compensate for centrifugal 'force' from planetary rotation, otherside it would drift upwards. Object hovers at fixed height above centre of mass. Some sort of feedback from the mass underneath, similar to capacitance adjusts the overall vector just enough to keep the fixed height relative to the ground. As such can only operate relatively close to the local ground. Hover vehicles frequently use this in combination with conventional engines for horizontal movement. Variable replusorlift - Gravity vector can be adjusted between normal and inverted. Object can move up and down, relative to the local centre of mass. The body's own gravity is being used to repel the repulsorlift vehicle, like Cavorite. Most space vehicles use this, along with conventional engines for forward and in-space movement. Vectored repulsorlift - Vector can be pointed sideways as well as up and down. Used for surface vehicles and aircraft, including speederbikes. The advantage is the vehicle doesn't need any other engines. The downside is it is more complex, and can only accelerate at the acceleration the planet's gravity would normally give, around 1G for most habitable worlds. But fine if you don't need high acceleratuion, like an Imperial Probe Droid.

[@ricks5756]

Greeblies - they don't have to make sense, they just have to add visual noise and look cool on sci-fi models :)

[@sulljoh1]

Fun fact, Rogue One ships are clearly NOT in orbit like the ISS They're hovering at high altitude. That's how they stay fixed over the Imperial base

[@BartJBols]

Repulsor lift and plutonium rods, shooting them at such speeds into space ships that they not just bust through armour as an armor piercing rod, but when they squish and compress they become critical and explode in a nuclear bomb.

[@LiliaArmoury]

if people can bolt anti grav onto stuff we will

[@butteredbutters]

Everyone talks about how the ISB is so great. However, what institution did a better job? The Imperial Security Bureau, or Imperial Intelligence?

[@eds1942]

Then you get to the Clone Wars where people regularly carry big cargo boxes, and putting their back into it. Meanwhile, in the original movie (ep4 ANH) used a what looked like a good sized scanner into the Falcon, while used repulser lift technology. And in ep5, Empire Strikes Back, the carbonate slab that carried Han Solo was also transported by repulser lift tech. Failing that, they had loader droids and something that looked like a forklifts and utility carts. I mean, Filoni impressed me with some of the details he saw in the movies, yet he was one of the showrunners for the Clone Wars CGI show?

[@hisdivineshadow8263]

At 2.01 there's a painting or illustration with some alien in mid background flipping the bird!

[@fishman5422]

Question: how do repulorlifts stay at the same height, what if someone hit a speed bump when driving a speeder? And would it be different if it was a something like a snow speeder or if it was a vehicle like Lukes landspeeder?

[@AdamTehranchiYT]

One thing I liked about the yuuzhan vong was the dovin basal (organic) technology. Repulsolifts stopped working the farther away from a gravity well they were. Which doesn't really make sense because everything with mass interacts with everything else with mass. So the DBs could fly in space. Granted, they could do some other gravity manipulating stuff that should be impossible, but I digress. Hopefully, someone in SW figures out how they do that. Great video 👍🏻👍🏻

[@oldtimefarmboy617]

If you used anti-gravity devices on a rocket, you could use much smaller rockets to get into orbit and use them to move up or down in orbit when you need or want to. You could also simply take off and go straight up and away from the planet in the direction you want to go without getting into orbit first or requiring the use of gravity assist to pick up speed or slow down traveling through a solar system.

[@Kabosche]

Major reasons that the Mon Cal ships were not filled with water are: 1) As you said, for the comfort/survival of air-breathers (although the humidity was so high that many found the ships to be stifling). 2) Many types of energy don't react well- or rather TOO well- with a conductive medium like water. All the requisite sealing would have been prohibitively expensive and might have limited what technologies could be included. 3) During explosive decompression, air is easier to fight against than water. Also, if the temperature dropped drastically in that situation, crew might be locked in ice where they could die of hypothermia or suffocation. 4) Air is compressible, so an explosion or impact wouldn't do as much damage to ship and crew as one that occurred on a ship with a noncommpressible fluid like water. 5) Water is a LOT heavier than air, so the energy expenditures would be ENORMOUS, not to mention the lack of agility that would result from all that additional mass.

[@Cornel101]

Given how prevalant and seemingly convenient repulsorlifts were, I wonder why Mandalorians continued to use jetpacks? Were jetpacks faster? Easier to maintain? Or was it a rule of cool thing?

[@eds1942]

When I saw the thumbnail, I thought the video was going to be on the T-47 “Snowspeeder’s” freezing problem.

[@jibril2473]

“Echo Base this is Rogue 2. I’ve found them.”

[@bradhedgehog12]

It’s awesome too. Most can also be known as hover craft

[@fourthofjulygaming3795]

Could you imagine if the Yuuzhan Vong came into contact with the Star destroyer harboring the Blacking Wing plague? How do you think they would fair against it?

[@Voltaic_Fire]

Imagine how amazing it would be to live in a city or town constantly lifted by repulsorlifts, you'd get immunity to natural disasters and you could move the place around so it was always in the season most desired by the residents or the season needed for best crop production, you could also have it revolving slowly like one of those gimmicky restaurants.

[@Gigas0101]

#AskEck How's it going? Hope things are going well overall. Also, could you do a video where you come up with your own class of ship? I like seeing some of the fan ships people come up with, and I'd really like to see your take, based on your knowledge of official and unofficial Lore.

[@krisgonynor689]

Couldn't they just turn the artificial gravity lower on the MC ships, so that the Mon C's would be more comfortable? Being and living underwater is sort of like living in zero gravity. We train our astronauts by putting them in spacesuits and having them move around in large, deep pools. Using repulsor lift tech, we could put a floating platform up above most of the atmosphere and launch rockets from there. Getting past the air resistance lets them go faster, sooner in their flight path. We don't have anything besides chemical rockets that can get something up to orbital speeds yet, but we do have plasma drives that will work very well once you get in orbit, and could take you really anyplace in the solar system you wanted to go, fairly quickly. Don't forget, Star Destroyers also have repulsors in them - so that they can float over a city, as seen in one of the movies. I do wonder if repulsor tech works like artificial gravity tech - if you can generate a one gee gravity force on the bottom of your ship to provide internal gravity, couldn't you generate a similar force from your ship, just directed downwards, and cancel out the local planet's own gravity? You would basically be canceling out the weight of the ship itself - the planets gravity pulling you down, the ships artificial gravity pulling you up, canceling out each other's force? That could get you up to orbit (but not up to orbital speeds, which is around 17,000 mph here on earth).

[@ben501st]

Filling a ship with water would have major negative effects on performance. Water is heavy. Any change in speed or direction would be slower.

[@snappyskip9844]

If you'd like to learn more about repulsor lift technology consult your local library

[@Vidiocity92]

Lego Star Wars playthrough?? 😃

[@chocomalk]

Cheesy or impossible I love the snow speeder

[@jacobshore5115]

I’ve read the Truce at Bakura, I don’t know that I remember Bakura having a lot of repulser lift technology. Guess it’s been a while…

[@jaredmarkham7300]

Is it possible that? Akbars flight suit. Something that mimicked the monk lamari Weather patterns. Built-in?

[@mathmath4342]

What is your favorite space battle strategy ? I feel like there are so many, some known others not that much, but what was, in your opinion, the best tactic ever used in the lore (legends or canon) ?

[@williamjanak2013]

If the Earth had this tech even if inly half as good as in Star Wars getting to space would be much easier. The biggest problem is getting to space. Anything that makes it so we have to spend/burn duel to get to space makes everything cheaper. For what is not spent on something we burn up can go to cargo. Or just a lighter/cheaper ship. And if we make biggish platforms in the air we do not have to worry about making harden super strong launch pads. Because we can make engines powerful enough to rip them apart and make them dangerous to them selves and everything around them.

[@Quandoquesto]

I wonder if repulsor fields could be used in atmospheric flight to create an invisible aerofoil around a craft, maintaining a near ideal aoa and lift coefficient for any given regime of flight

[@chimera6485]

#askeck Hey, I've heard on a few occasions you mentioning that in star wars shields help make ships go faster in atmosphere. I've looked before but can't find where it says that. I know this is by no means a video question but this has been bugging me excessively. Anyway, thank you for all the videos you do I absolutely love them.

[@DMBLaan]

#AskEck For you personally, what 1 small/minor piece of tech, lore, character, etc. do you miss the most after the split between Legends and Canon, that hasn't been reintroduce in some way? Why?

[@corrinestenman5683]

You forgot to mention the repulsorlift furniture that Bakura had; it was a blink-and-you-miss-it detail early in Truce at Bakura that I always thought was neat.

[@alexanderhikel2350]

Putting one of my favorite ships on the cover of this thumbnail is just dirty ecks

[@dragonweyr44]

#AskEcks Why are blasters, turbolasers and other energy based weapons as opposed to solid, kinetic projectile weapons such as we have? Particularly in the case of artillery pieces We've seen them used sometimes, most notably in Andor when Luthen Rael is escaping from an Imperial ship's tractor beams, he uses missiles to destroy the tractor beams dishes Are ships and other vehicles all too well armored against regular artillery?

[@huzudra]

Why do I seem to remember a mention of repulsor beds from one of the Star Wars novels?

[@Rat-czar]

#askeck You may have talked about them before a long time ago but what is your opinion on the Battlefront books? Twilight company was awesome and I couldn’t finish the second one lol

[@dareka9425]

If repulsorlift became a reality in our world then it would simply generate new industries that produce other new tech to support it. Radar and sonar use to be huge expensive devices but they eventually became small devices used by civilian fishermen and police.

[@mittensfastpaw]

You know the videos of people doing dumb crap with them would be funny to watch go wrong.

[@melgranger6450]

Could you do a video on Cindel Towani? Her in the two movies and the black fleet crisis as well as the constantly disproved joke that she is Captain Phasma.

[@Omega_1111]

Wonder how long I've been subscribed for? Is there a way for us to check that?

[@theelectricgamer9889]

#AskEck Can you do a Battletech vs Star Wars video?

[@Agent_86_]

We The People won't get access to that technology, but it's already here. And it has been for a long time.

[@deaths_comedians2847]

Please do more like this. Such amazing video!!

[@sluggerbutter]

happy to see you back to these classic vids rly hope to see you cover awesome books and novelas like roadside picnic.

[@Rekker1]

No man's sky has pretty silly tech descriptions too

[@ausnirawac1752]

#askeck if the sith made their synthetic crystals using their hate and negative emotions to forge the crystal in a furnace over days, how did the Imperial knights in legacy era make their white synthetic crystals?

[@aalhard]

You forgot Lando's Cloud City

[@stuartl7761]

Surely there's a sport with a repulsorlift hover ball out there.

[@AnthonyA0424]

I feel like I’ve been subscribed to this channel forever

[@zeanamush]

Really? I think I've been here for a long time. Glad you can see that

[@ZacCampbell-p2t]

Wait 8 views and 15 likes

[@stuartl7761]

You can like it before you've fully seen it and counted as a view. And if you watch it on 2x, you're probably half a view.

[@Turkeynator25]

Love the content can you make a video on wierd planets?

[@just76]

There’s also a repulsor cannon in battlefront 2

[@jj003333]

Hi! Just wanted you to know how long i've been here too!

[@reefreptile]

Love your content! Keep up the great commentary!