Forum:SH Archive/Solving the problem of PT fighter vs. OT fighter speed.

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Seeing that there's some uncertainty regarding the speeds of the OT fighters and the speeds of the PT fighters and what should be written in the infoboxes, I suggest a temporary solution. We all now that the old RPG books gave most atmospheric-capable craft maximum velocities on par with, or slower than, aircraft like the Bell X-1, and when factbooks about the prequel films came out, they mostly discarded this and went with at least hypersonic capabilities when in an Earth-like atmosphere (this also gelled better with depictions and descriptions of fighter capabilities in novels and comics etc.). So why not put in stats for prequel era fighters along with a '>' sign for their successors, if it's stated somewhere that the OT fighters were faster than their predecessors? For instance, if there's a line mentioning X-wings being faster than ARC-170s (which are pegged at top speeds of 44,000 km/h), then the atmospheric top speed in the X-wing infobox would be changed to >44,000 km/h or similar. This would of course only apply to the fighters that have PT predecessors or some kind of source that mentions speeds higher than the WEG-derived numbers. VT-16 19:56, 31 December 2006 (UTC)