Just emphasizing HRogge's third point: asteroid fields like the one you see in The Empire Strikes Back just plain don't exist. Because space is big and asteroids are small. A good, if slightly tongue-in-cheek, comparison: it's like the Mojave desert -- sure there are lots of cactus, but it's not like you have to change the direction you're walking every minute or so to avoid them. In fact, you're more likely to run into a cactus in the Mojave than you are to run into an asteroid in an asteroid belt.
(I always thought that whole sequence, as spectacular as it was, was terribly silly, because that asteroid belt was more densely packed with rocks than the neighborhood of Alderaan immediately after it blew up.)
As for HRogge's other points, well, I'm inclined to agree with him and Rob on the nukes. And as for the others, well, the MDs are setting themselves up as outlaws -- and not noble, fun Robin Hood outlaws but dangerous, shoot-on-sight outlaws.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
(I always thought that whole sequence, as spectacular as it was, was terribly silly, because that asteroid belt was more densely packed with rocks than the neighborhood of Alderaan immediately after it blew up.)
As for HRogge's other points, well, I'm inclined to agree with him and Rob on the nukes. And as for the others, well, the MDs are setting themselves up as outlaws -- and not noble, fun Robin Hood outlaws but dangerous, shoot-on-sight outlaws.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.