Seems like a Pratt & Wittney design hahaha

Don't forget the Battlefront games.

@@michaelandreipalon359 Right, zooming around blasting people or back capping CPs will always be fun and enjoyable.

@@inductivegrunt94 Also the occasional ramming of said people.

​@@michaelandreipalon359and the 2002 Clone Wars game

Probably woulda needed a total overhaul though. Their already limited battery would be severely taxed by a shield generator, evidenced by how the titular Destroyers needed like twelve batteries and a built-in reactor. If the STAP was then given better batteries and the generator, it would likely become heavier and bulkier, reducing its speed... which was primarily its whole thing.

The force guides us brah

Anakin is just built different.

To be fair, he did that using the Force and his training. I think I could do it, but since my luck and coordination is so bad I would have to actively try to fall off in order to manage it.

Space wizard

"Now this is podracing!"

"Hold my beer" sounds like the last words of an organic STAP pilot.. Well last words before he got lethal amounts of radiation anyways

Good one!

@@hungtheheroluu thanks

Fr legends and new cannon kind of ignores how the people who fought for the Rebel Alliance almost definitely fought for the CIS themselves if they were old enough, or their friends and family did if they weren’t

@@themediocremaster2388. Very true! I believe your right about that! I know there are some, I don’t remember the names but I do remember there were a few!

They already did. Its limited missile capability complete with a difficult reloading system during battle is one big flaw.

Anakin was indeed a master in some Senatorial quarters.

@@cjclark1208 And how is that relevant to this topic?

@@michaelandreipalon359 It is so far from relevant but I said what I said.

Depends what type of reaction it was and how much energy was needed to keep it aloft, accelerating, and firing. Even a sustained fusion requires more reactants to keep going, let alone some sort of fission or even a radioisotope generator is liable to go cold after that kind of power draw given how small the power plant must be on one of these.

@@The_Lucent_Archangel Does it really need refueling that often though Reactors for SSNs, SSBNs and Aircraft carriers can go 20 years without refueling and the reactor of the Voyager space probes have gone over 40 years with a much smaller reactor

@@dragonweyr44 True, but we have no sense of scale for how much power those cannons or engines that compact capable of pushing 400 mph would draw. We really don't know how much energy a repulsor system would take, because that's well outside of our capability whereas directed energy weapons and turbine engines are a bit more grounded. Subs and carriers have reactors that are smaller than a nuke plant, but still quite large. And both Voyagers had to power down more and more systems to try and conserve energy. A STAP isn't that large, so its reactor must be incredibly compact. The fact its engine release so much radiation reminds me of the SLAM concept, basically a nuclear-powered cruise missile that would drop smaller munitions while casting a radioactive wake behind itself and ultimately hitting a priority target with a large main warhead. Thankfully the US didn't actually complete that program. It theoretically could have remained flying for quite some time but again, that's only using power for flight, guidance, and weapon release and it was much larger than a STAP. Or, maybe, the reactor purely drives the engines and repulsor while the energy cells power the weapons. Even if it's primarily a recon platform, having no offensive capability would definitely call for a recharge.

@@The_Lucent_Archangel I really don't understand how repulsor lift technology works. For instance, Luke's land speeder on Tatooine, for example Even parked, and presumably, turned off, it still floats above the ground. Why? Why wouldn't a speeder, or other object for that matter, settle down on the ground when not in use?

It’s possible that they did if they could obtain any, as it fits their doctrine of hit-and-run attacks. They would have needed to add some radiation shielding (probably just welding on a metal plate) for longer term use.

Am betting only a select few, since 74-Zs and BARCs are far more effective and safer.

Not likely. If it was too dangerous for organic pilots to pilot a STAP, then it wasn’t going to be used by rebel groups who were constantly short on manpower.

Well, the engine exhaust to the crotch.

Heh. 😏

The one Legends iteration of the incident with the fungus-high Obi-Wan?

@@michaelandreipalon359 The very same. Yes.

I believe the whole radiation thing isn’t Canon.

Radiation is survivable for short periods, and Jedi are exceptional in various ways. I just hope they used the Force to part the engine wash to either side of their bodies, because otherwise I have to assume plot-armour.

I don't think I have ever heard of a speeder with shields

​@@ilpoomatili9549Would have offered more protection in combat situations.

@@sonofeyeabovealleffoff5462 yes but you trade of speed and agility

STAP making that joke

@@Igotajarofdirtguesswhat Roger Roger

It looks like some kind of droideka prototype.

Magnets. 🧲

Or melting a B1 beyond repair?

Huh?

@@user-kq7rf6uq4m They have bad battle tactics. Even their armies were droids and clones. So unless the war reached your planet it was just something on the news. The sad part is the Republic's leaders were Jedi and officers with a lot of badges but no experience. The CSI had to try to lose

Your Honour, not all CIS military assets were designed for exclusive droid use... but the man has a point.

Wouldn’t it be like having another person inside your brain for the tanks