Even just moving in space for the dog fight is going to be putting you in to way under or over a stable orbit around the planet. So the moving ships trivialize gravity but once they’re broke and drifting then gravity does come into play. If they are in very low orbit they’re going to reenter pretty fast, outside of that you’ll just drift in orbit almost all the time.
Yeah, the gravity will affect them, over the next couple hundred of kilometers given their initial speed. Not within a few meters. It’s way over thinking it. The destroyers are battleships and the fighters are planes, that’s how their movement is coded. Real life space physics play no role. That’s OK, is an stylistic choice that works for the franchise. Anything more is head canon from fans that breaks down with even the slightest scrutiny. Like I said, it’s fun to argue about it, but from the very mouth of the cinematographers, it’s not that deep.
Even just moving in space for the dog fight is going to be putting you in to way under or over a stable orbit around the planet. So the moving ships trivialize gravity but once they’re broke and drifting then gravity does come into play. If they are in very low orbit they’re going to reenter pretty fast, outside of that you’ll just drift in orbit almost all the time.
Yeah, the gravity will affect them, over the next couple hundred of kilometers given their initial speed. Not within a few meters. It’s way over thinking it. The destroyers are battleships and the fighters are planes, that’s how their movement is coded. Real life space physics play no role. That’s OK, is an stylistic choice that works for the franchise. Anything more is head canon from fans that breaks down with even the slightest scrutiny. Like I said, it’s fun to argue about it, but from the very mouth of the cinematographers, it’s not that deep.