AMSLER@SRI-AI.ARPA (06/10/83)
From: Robert Amsler <AMSLER@SRI-AI.ARPA> We should be most cautious about writing the Emperor off. After all, Darth supposedly fell into a VOLCANO and survived. However, if he DOES come back it will be in the future--and since the next films will likely be in the past, dealing with Luke's adventures, when the emperor is alive anyway, it's a moot point. I wonder how close to the planet the 2nd Deathstar actually was. If it were close enough it might be in the planet's atmosphere---also note that a ground-based forcefield would be easier to project (assuming inverse-square laws hold for force-fields) CLOSER to the planet rather than further away. Ah... an interesting problem: What is the interaction between the gravitational pull of the planet and the force-field. You have to offset the weight of the Deathstar II if you are very close to the planet vs. far away; yet far away you have to project the force-field a greater distance and that weakens it? Is there anything known about projecting plasma fields or is everything we understand concerned with containing them? -------