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Hell, why is having multiple crew-members a disadvantage? I'm not even sure what you're complaining about with this.

It's not an issue so long as there is a reason for it. A Y-wing can be crewed by one person easy. A Snowspeeder is basically a Snow tow-truck and was not designed with combat as its primary function. Something like an AT-ST is designed with the notion of a dedicated pilot and gunner in mind. However an AT-ST can still be piloted by one person, a Snowspeeder isn't suddenly useless because it has only one person, and you can still pilot an AT-ST and at least have an AT-AT function as a transport with one person. Dumb-wings need two people. A pilot and someone to handle the bombings. That's why Rose's sister had to do what she did; because her bomber died. This could have been handled via computer, droid, or something else. Instead they had to waste a second pilot, a person who could have been driving another X-wing, just so that a dumb-wing can do its ONLY purpose.

Bullshit they don't. When the Millenium Falcon is pulled into the Death Star or a shuttle lands on the second Death Star, there are enormous bays that seem to open out into space (again, previous lore basically says that all ships have a protective shield keeping the atmosphere in, which the bombers would presumably have had too). Or, if you want the least defensible of the bunch, how about when Han and Leia walk out into what they believe to be an asteroid cave with nothing to protect them other than a gas mask?

Those bays have been long-established to have forcefields for that sort of thing. As for Han and Leia, in theory the innards of the beast provided enough protection in order to keep them from getting spaced. Though the real question should not be 'how did they survive' but 'how did they not notice that they had basically become a space-suppository'. I mean, if you told me they were in the things colon I could believe it. If you told me that they got into the colon without noticing... That's the hard part.

As for the Death Star and its guns, no, those turrets could not reliably shoot back. That was the entire point and the reason why they were using starfighters in the first place.

They were using them because they had no other ships. It was basically 'deploy the fighters and pray to god for the mother of all hail marys' or 'take a drink and finally tell Akbar that your love for him was not a trap before being blow to bits'.

I'll get the rest after sleep.
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