![]() ![]() The Royal Navy\’s hms dreadnought, the world\'s first dreadnought, 1906. Just look at the latest trailer for the The Last Jedi to see what I mean. In Star Wars all spaceships face one another as if fighting on a two-dimensional plane. But this series almost always botches space battles. That's because there is no up or down in space. Well-designed spaceships are made without obvious tops and bottoms (see 2001: A Space Odyssey). The reason for this rush of excitement? The Dreadnought was much more symmetrical. At first glance, it looked like Star Wars had actually veered toward the plausible. So when Star Wars spilled details on a new First Order spaceship called the Dreadnought, I expected something visually cool, totally unusual, and wildly inaccurate-like a spaceship with wings and a dragon neck or something. ![]() Look no further than all-terrain transports that have legs instead of treads and are now shaped like apes for no good reason. Star Wars combat vehicles are iconic, sure, but almost always dumb in design and employment. ![]()
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