The Imperial Star Destroyer's bridge is angled downwards.

[DukeBlueBall]

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I've always thought it was angled parellel to the side trench's but it's parellel to the top deck.

This means that the movies always had the engines pointed at an angle downwards. There is no sign of thrust vector tech on the engine nozzles so the ships must always be travelling forward and slightly up.

 

[Owlowiscious]

I don't see it. I'm gonna need some mspaint lines or something to get what you're saying.

edit: thanks. now to wait for some knowledgable fans to reply~

 

[DukeBlueBall]

I don't see it. I'm gonna need some mspaint lines or something to get what you're saying.

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Added 2nd picture for clarity.

 

[MrKlaw]

no, the bottom is angled up. Like the hull of a ship - the top is horizontal like the deck

 

[DukeBlueBall]

no, the bottom is angled up. Like the hull of a ship - the top is horizontal like the deck

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Yes, but shouldn't the engines be angled parellel to the top deck then? I expect the engines and bridge decks to be parellel.

 

[MrKlaw]

Yes, but shouldn't the engines be angled parellel to the top deck then?

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Need a thread title change.

 

[Lagamorph]

Who says the actual internal decks are following the lines of the outer hull though?

 

[DukeBlueBall]

Who says the actual internal decks are following the lines of the outer hull though?

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According to the canon cross sections, the decks, at least for the sections right below the bridge follows the outer hull.

 

[Rassilon]

I don't see it. I'm gonna need some mspaint lines or something to get what you're saying.

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[capitalCORN]

Star destroyers are false advertisement. Why did the empire need to build a death star, huh?

 

[DukeBlueBall]

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Boom.

 

[BAW]

Star destroyers are false advertisement. Why did the empire need to build a death star, huh?

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Star ship = a ship that's in space
Star fleet = a fleet that's in space
Star destroyer = a destroyer that's in space

 

[L Thammy]

Star ship = a ship that's in space
Star fleet = a fleet that's in space
Star destroyer = a destroyer that's in space

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So does that mean the Star Destroyer is meant to destroy Star Torpedo Boats to defend a larger but sluggish Star Battleship?

 

[MarioW]

"Down" is whatever the artificial gravity says down is.

 

[16bits]

why are they even trying to be aerodynamic?

 

[BAW]

So does that mean the Star Destroyer is meant to destroy Star Torpedo Boats to defend a larger but sluggish Star Battleship?

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Yes. The Death Stars are the larger but sluggish Star Battleships in Star Wars.

 

[capitalCORN]

why are they even trying to be aerodynamic?

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Like 90 percent of being a fascist is looking cool. It's as if your mid life crisis was dreams of murder.

 

[Qikz]

why are they even trying to be aerodynamic?

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They sometimes fly in atmosphere I guess

 

[Teenage Fansub]

"Down" is whatever the artificial gravity says down is.

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You still feel thrust in space, so the places housing people should be parallel to the engines, right?

 

[Katamari]

Where are the bridge's windows?

 

[Shin Kojima]

Can you really speak of up and down in space?

 

[BAW]

why are they even trying to be aerodynamic?

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They're not.
The triangle shape is just an old very popular shape in both Jedi and Sith cultures.
The fact that so many spaceships ended up using this shape is just a testament that either a Jedi or a Sith was in charge of their design at some point.

 

[capitalCORN]

Where are the bridge's windows?

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Bridges were discontinued after an unfortunate event at Endor.

 

[Teenage Fansub]

They're not.
The triangle shape is just an old very popular shape in both Jedi and Sith cultures.
The fact that so many spaceships ended up using this shape is just a testament that either a Jedi or a Sith was in charge of their design at some point.

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Some human nerds in the mid 70's were in charge of the design.

 

[MarioW]

You still feel thrust in space, so the places housing people should be parallel to the engines, right?

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Do you though? Because Star Wars ships travel at incredible speeds and do maneuvers that would create lethal g-forces, and pilots and passengers don't often seem impacted implying some kind of magical suppression.

 

[Katamari]

Bridges were discontinued after an unfortunate event at Endor.

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The Last Jedi says otherwise. RIP Ackbar

 

[Teenage Fansub]

Do you though? Because Star Wars ships travel at incredible speeds and do maneuvers that would create lethal g-forces, and pilots and passengers don't often seem impacted implying some kind of magical suppression.

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Well, you'd at least want the bridge parallel for navigation. Nobody wants to be looking diagonally up at the destination.

 

[Rassilon]

Some human nerds in the mid 70's were in charge of the design.

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aye it went through a lot of changes.

I do wonder how different science fiction design history would be if they'd gone with some of the busier designs.

 

[DukeBlueBall]

aye it went through a lot of changes.

I do wonder how different science fiction design history would be if they'd gone with some of the busier designs.

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Fox News in Space!

 

[capitalCORN]

The Last Jedi says otherwise. RIP Ackbar

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RIP indeed. Pure rebel hubris.

 

[MarioW]

Well, you'd at least want the bridge parallel for navigation. Nobody wants to be looking diagonally up at the destination.

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A quick Google suggests the engines have actuators (like all human rockets and the space shuttles), so thrust could seemingly be aligned with the angle of the bridge?

 

[StormEagle]

Well, you'd at least want the bridge parallel for navigation. Nobody wants to be looking diagonally up at the destination.

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Computers and computer screens will be used for navigation, not windows. Human eyes can't see far enough for the speed these destroyers will travel. Also, the tip of a destroyer might already be to far to see from the bridge. It is not a one pilot fighter. So it doesn't matter.

 

[NekoFever]

why are they even trying to be aerodynamic?

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They can and do fly in atmosphere. You see them (albeit their Republic predecessors) taking off from the ground in Episode II, and there's one hovering over Jedha in Rogue One.

 

[terminaljeremy]

It's actually just a little model that they film really close to make it look big. People can't even fit in it!

 

[StormEagle]

A quick Google suggests the engines have actuators (like all human rockets and the space shuttles), so thrust could seemingly be aligned with the angle of the bridge?

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Star wars ships have g-force dampers that can be fine tuned to only let a pilot or crew only feel as much as they want to. Large ships will completely dampen the forces while fighter pilots will set it to 99% or something so they can still feel their ships motions. It's in the books. (The ones that matter.)
They can also set gravity as they will. In A New Hope, the cannons of the Millennium Falcon are on top and bottom of the ship. Both Luke and Han climb up to their seats and look down to the rest of the ship. So the bottom one has its gravity flipped in comparison to the rest of the ship.

 

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[Siggy-P]

Feel like that's an issue with that one single image and that most of the actual models used in the original trilogy probbaly didn't have that problem.

Official specs for it don't have that problem.

 

[DukeBlueBall]

Feel like that's an issue with that one single image and that most of the actual models used in the original trilogy probbaly didn't have that problem.

Official specs for it don't have that problem.

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The images in the OP are actual from the miniatures used for the film, so they're the canonest of the canons when it comes to the design.

 

[Rassilon]

Feel like that's an issue with that one single image and that most of the actual models used in the original trilogy probbaly didn't have that problem.

Official specs for it don't have that problem.

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What's the source of that image?
It does seem to include some of the illustrations from the Essential Guide; which are somewhat 'off' from the models.

It is the supplementary materials that are wrong, not the on-screen depictions.

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[DukeBlueBall]

CASE CLOSED

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Must suck for the bridge crew to not be able to look straight ahead at where the ship is going.

 

[Noodle]

Weren't there minute differences between the SDs used in each film like the angle of the shield generators or is that also from supplementary materials?

 

[Siggy-P]

What's the source of that image?
It does seem to include some of the illustrations from the Essential Guide; which are somewhat 'off' from the models.

It is the supplementary materials that are wrong, not the on-screen depictions.

CASE CLOSED

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Well.... The ships stupid then.

 

[Rassilon]

Weren't there minute differences between the SDs used in each film like the angle of the shield generators or is that also from supplementary materials?

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The bridges do indeed have different greebling.

In ANH they have a big 'X' looking structure, and from ESB onwards they have a flat bar-looking thing.

Rogue One used the ANH design, to the great satisfaction of some nerds presumably.

 

[Antonymous]

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Isn't that just due to the shape of the "wing" and the perspective of the image? The bottom line isn't angled, it's just coming toward the camera. You're looking at the side of a triangle essentially.

 

[Rassilon]

Isn't that just due to the shape of the "wing" and the perspective of the image? The bottom line isn't angled, it's just coming toward the camera. You're looking at the side of a triangle essentially.

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Hmm, the diagrams (I think from the Essential Guide) detail the stepped-decking thing under the bridge is slopped down, compared to the horizontal trench. Diagrams usually remove perspective (and thus foreshortening etc).

Confusingly, these illustrations detail that the bridge is aligned to the centre trench! This is not seen in the model.

 

[Teenage Fansub]

Computers and computer screens will be used for navigation, not windows. Human eyes can't see far enough for the speed these destroyers will travel. Also, the tip of a destroyer might already be to far to see from the bridge. It is not a one pilot fighter. So it doesn't matter.

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But you still wanna be the badass evil captain and stand by the window and point straight ahead at the planet/ships you're gonna blow up and make a fist.

 

[Hyun Sai]

CASE CLOSED

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I see, it was by design to attain the "triangle at all cost". Mission accomplished.

 

[DarthSpider]

Do you though? Because Star Wars ships travel at incredible speeds and do maneuvers that would create lethal g-forces, and pilots and passengers don't often seem impacted implying some kind of magical suppression.

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Poe and BB-8 did at the beginning of TLJ when they added that booster rocket to his X-Wing.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Poe and BB-8 did at the beginning of TLJ when they added that booster rocket to his X-Wing.

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Because it was an add-on

 

[StormEagle]

But you still wanna be the badass evil captain and stand by the window and point straight ahead at the planet/ships you're gonna blow up and make a fist.

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Yes, that is why you also make all windows be computer screens, so you can have a large zoomed in view. Like you see in Star Trek. In Star Wars you have Sith who sense their opponents in the force while looking mysteriously in a seemingly random direction where no one else sees anything. If we had more legends stuff with warlords, that screen enhance would totally be in.