I bet her farts smell like daisies, even.

(lol, it’s a really cute drawing of a cute cow.)

So, here’s the thing.

That’s not a great analogy. The MIM-104 Patriot missile system is still providing vital and necessary functionality on a daily basis.

It’s also mobile in the exact same way I’m suggesting the V-150 could (and should,) be.

And finally, the reason they haven’t done that is because there’s plenty of other options like the RIM-174, which we also gave them. (But I’m not so sure it’s as vital. That’s a high bar to cross.)

As for its size, yeah. It’s huge. But you’re comparing that to earth construction. Star Wars always went big. For example the Lucrehulk freighter (which they used for a pilot training academy,)

That thing was large enough that pretty much every they brought to Hoth could fit on it and access with all the same capability as echo base itself. With room to spare. They probably wouldn’t even need to give up the flight academy!

The point being, it’s not unreasonable to suggest they could just literally do that- strap it to an appropriately sized freighter.

Like i mentioned before: they had to get it there somehow, and it’s not the type of thing you’d just build in place. (They stole it and several other cannons, after all.)

so, here’s an incredible cross sections scan of the v-150 cannon on hoth:

The cannons are absolute beasts. Don’t get me wrong.

We don’t actually know how big the thing is, at least not directly. We do have a scene with a golan df.9 turret (the stubby tower ones, not the dish turrets,) is next to it. those are 4 meters in height In the screen grab of the ion cannon. guestimating the height behind the snow drift, I make the ball 6 df.9’s in diameter. 8, if I ignore the base and go with whats seen, and ignoring the actual barrel thingies. (that’s another df.9.)

So for surface installation (Ball turret plus the reactor core that’s under the ball,) I’d make it needing something between 48 to 64 meters in over all length, and 24 to 36 meters in cylindrical space.

this wouldn’t be that hard to bolt on to something like a GR-75, which is 90 meters long, and mostly just cargo racks. Keep in mind they had to get all that equipment there in the first place, and these aren’t the kind of things you’re building in place, it might be broken down into some submodules, but you’re not breaking them down into component parts.

if a GR-75 isn’t large enough, (maybe because the reactor core isn’t… a reactor core? and needs “base” power.) Then the Imperial Container Ship certainly is (and incredibly easy to steal.) You can actually build that thing out to something that resembles a mobile operations base, to be honest. (the internals of the cargo stack are all shirt-sleeve habitation, apparently,)

Both ships have an advantage here in that they would be rather easy to modify into hauling something other than containers, and including possibly something outsized like the ion cannon. basically becoming a system defense monitor (slow, big guns, and mobile only the sense that, sure, it technically can shuffle off.)

You could do a few things with it. use it concert in lightling raids- it doesn’t come deep into the envelope, but it hits the biggies from range. Probably after a recon flight pops in and gives targets, it can jump in and start blasting with lighter things coming in to do whatever. fighters, bombers, etc.

alternatively, drop it in orbit and let it hang out where it can cover an escape and shuffle off on it’s own. (bonus points for everything else being space-based and not planet-side.)

It absolutely is fantasy

But the physics as far as that goes are still on point compared to, idunno, Star Trek.

The sound in space, the swooping, all of that were story telling tools used to convey a sense of what was happening. Realistic space battles aren’t really all that exciting.

Not even the expanse got that right. They just replaced particle beams with Gatling guns and condescending but inaccurate explanations of why things don’t swoop.

Fun fact, the reason planes and stuff seem to swoop is because they’re under constant accelerations and observed from the perspective outside the plane. One source of that constant acceleration is the atmosphere (drag and lift,) but you can just as easily replace that with fusion maneuvering thrusters or something.

“Release the Epstein Files you Rancid shitsack!”

aural synthesis of sensrionics to enhance situational awareness.

(For a non bullshit answer it was for creating engagement with the audience. The utter silence of 2001 space odyssey kinda bothered a lot of people.)

(Same with the swooping.)

(Though from a certain point of view, swooping happens.)

I’m really not a fan of super weapons in sci fi. They make little sense, if you ask me.

like. really. the Deathstar didn’t really serve much in the way of a useful purpose.

A carrier for self-mobile carriers? that made planets go poof?

Any reasonable rebel would just not be on a planet, which means you’re making your own resources go poof. and by resources, I mean labor force.

This something I never understood about Hoth. strap that ion gun and it’s genset to a freighter, and you’d have a pretty mean gunship that can disable entire convoys or blockades. equip other freighters for wildcat gas extraction and refinery and solve your fuel problems. same for manufacturing, with the advantage of not losing your shit everytime the Empire shows up.

It’s all fun and games until the scatologist shows up.

Then it’s all poop jokes.

You’ve never met a swan, have you?

“Mild annoyance” are the seagulls stealing your food.

(Yes, that swan dunked the seagull so it couldn’t fly away.)

Swans don’t steal food. You give it to them hoping they don’t murder you.

I’d say ‘nope!’ But they kinda look tasty…

Or that turkey was used in this fried rice?

(I may have read your comment in the voice of Gandalf. Specifically at the start of the hobbit, when he’s waxing poetically about bilbo’s varied use of ‘good morning’)

That’s a cutie!

Most people do. Not her fault

“Yer daddy was a 2 pump chump!”

Edit: Not sure how that comes back to “mom’s a whore”

So…

What is Dast?

(The word that means what we typically use Bastard for is Dastard.)

Bruh.

That’s perfect.

it’s a caustic relationship.

just for the record, we started with Venus, but they kept breaking them, so we switched to Mars.

In high school, I once got to tour the zoo with zookeepers guiding and taking us back in the more private spaces.

(Standing 2 feet away from a 500 pound still-growing tiger is a memorable experience. Especially when the keeper reaches through the grate to pinch the sleeping fella’s toe bean.)

One of the exhibits we got more in depth was this endangered wild horse, where they were part of a breeding program.

The zookeeper was laughing his ass off as a dad was trying to explain what the horse was doing (rocking back and forth…) to his kids.

When the family left, the zookeeper turned to us, and apologized and said “the stallion is masturbating.”

Hey.

Why wasn’t the Slime Mold invited to the party?