'Excalibur' Platform realisticness?
If you look at the 'Excalibur' Platform's profile picture, it's got the three prong-like things jutting out from its base, with orange beams connecting from the ends of those prongs to the 'Excalibur' Platform's base.
Yes, I agree it looks cool...
But how realistic is it?
Why would you send energy outside the 'Excalibur' Platform, exposed to environmental resistances (air, rain, Troopers willing to get in its way to block it, etc. (I realize it's in space, a vacuum, but still...)), when you could have the energy run inside the 'Excalibur' Platform, exposed to minimal resistances?
Yes, I agree it looks much better than this alternative, though it doesn't quite doesn't seem to make sense...
Also, I'm no scientist, this is purely inferencing on my part... So yeah :)