IINM, this was the original design Lucas had for the Millenium Falcon, but he decided to go with the irregular-saucer shape (allegedly inspired by a burger with an olive next to it) instead, and kept this for Leia’s consular ship.
Having all those engines made perfect sense in the very first movie, when it was a blockade runner that had to outrun the “big Corellian ships”, but it seems like all that thrust would be unnecessary if it’s just moving Bail Organa here & there in the prequel times.
I’ve always liked these. It’s as if they took a regular design and then just kept adding engines until they ran out of engines to add.
IINM, this was the original design Lucas had for the Millenium Falcon, but he decided to go with the irregular-saucer shape (allegedly inspired by a burger with an olive next to it) instead, and kept this for Leia’s consular ship.
Having all those engines made perfect sense in the very first movie, when it was a blockade runner that had to outrun the “big Corellian ships”, but it seems like all that thrust would be unnecessary if it’s just moving Bail Organa here & there in the prequel times.
I think (?) they showed the thing landing on Alderaan at the end of “Star Wars Episode III” (or in reality, Star Wars 6).
Maybe…though I’m not curious enough to spring for the blu-ray to find out.
One would think that with all those engines, it could outrun, or at least outmaneuver, an ISD.
It might’ve been about to, but for the detour to Tattooine and, y’know, blasters.