Why did Dooku use a solar sailer?

Count Dooku instructed the Geonosians to add a solar energy-collecting sail to allow the ship to fly without fuel. When the sail deployed, the absorbed energy pulled the ship through space at sublight speeds.

What happened to Dooku’s solar sailer?

At the beginning of the Clone Wars on Geonosis, Dooku had his solar sailer docked in his hangar. At some point after he escaped imprisonment in their base on Florrum, Dooku had his solar sailer recovered and repaired.

What movie is solar sailer in?

TRON: Legacy
Solar Sailer/Movie
The Solar Sailer is a vehicle in the Tron franchise. It is a simulation of a futuristic bulk transport vehicle. When idle, its sails are translucent; however, for faster speeds, the sails turn opaque and give the solar sailer a tremendous boost in speed.

What is Count Dooku’s ship?

solar sailer
Built by the Geonosians, Count Dooku’s Punworcca 116-class interstellar swoop was an example of a solar sailer, a beautiful and expensive ship notable for the sails it would unfurl for interstellar flight.

What is General Grievous ship?

The Soulless One
The Soulless One, a customized Feethan Ottraw Scalable Assemblies Belbullab-22 starfighter, was the personal ship of General Grievous, the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems’ Droid Army.

What happened to Darth Maul’s ship?

At the time of the Invasion of Naboo, the Scimitar was the personal starship of Darth Maul, who used it in an attempt to track Queen Padmé Amidala on Tatooine. After his defeat, the ship fell into the possession of Maul’s master, Darth Sidious.

Can lightsabers be curved?

it just goes straight. for it to curve, it would need a closed, curved enclosure. (Technically a lightsaber can’t exist, because a laser doesn’t just extend to the length of the blade, and magically stop. The blade would continue to extend infinitely, unless there was a solid object to end how far the blade expands.)

What ship is the invisible hand?

The Invisible Hand was a modified Providence-class Dreadnought that served in the naval forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems as the flagship of the navy and the command ship of Kaleesh Separatist General Grievous during the Clone Wars.

What is Princess Leia’s ship called?

The Tantive IV
The Tantive IV (pronounced /ˈtæntɪˌvi ‘fɔ:r/) was a CR90 corvette in the service of the House of Organa. The ship was a central player in the events at the beginning of the Galactic Civil War, serving as Princess Leia Organa’s personal starship in the leadup to the Battle of Yavin.

What is a solar sailer?

The Solar Sailer is a simulation of a futuristic bulk transport vehicle, that was used by Tron, Flynn and Yori to escape from the Game Grid and reach the MCP. When idle, its sails are translucent; however, for faster speeds, the sails turn opaque and give the solar sailer a tremendous boost in speed.

What makes Dooku’s Solar Sailer so unique?

The most unique aspect of Dooku’s solar sailer was its sail, an ancient Gree artifact supplied by Dooku himself. Unlike most solar sails, which unfurled to moon-like diameters and were pushed by tachyon streams or ultraviolet lasers, Dooku’s unique sail had no discernible power source.

What is the history of solar sail technology?

The first formal technology and design effort for a solar sail began in 1976 at Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a proposed mission to rendezvous with Halley’s Comet.

What is the dynamic pressure of a solar sail?

Solar wind, the flux of charged particles blown out from the Sun, exerts a nominal dynamic pressure of about 3 to 4 nPa, three orders of magnitude less than solar radiation pressure on a reflective sail. Sail loading (areal density) is an important parameter, which is the total mass divided by the sail area, expressed in g/m 2.