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B) if their antigrav is like 2001 a space Odyssey. A) if they're using local gravity (eg built in the gravitational orbit of something).
So depends where it was built.
Either way miniaturization is what they really need to focus their efforts on. Hell, they'd save a lot of space if it were an unmanned drone. Which is also true of Elon Musks schemes to get to Mars.
I imagine they were shaping gravity anyway they wanted to.
Yeah, faster-than-light travel is an older technology in Star Wars than agriculture is in the real world.
I'd expect a little thing like artificial gravity to be a solved problem.
Judging by their ships, they have gravity generators which are small enough and have a small enough ratio of energy consumption to energy generation to be used in something like the Millenium Falcon.
Which would mean that from an Engineering point of view the option on the left would be perfectly feasible.
On the other hand it does make some sense to structure a combat vehicle as an onion with more mission critical sections inside were they are better protected and less important ones on the outside - you easilly have armour in between levels in that setup whilst in the setup on the left you would need to explicitly add rings of armor sectioning your corridors to achieve the same.
That said, in the Star Wars films we can see that the ship hangars with access to space have a "side" open to space and the "floor" side perpendicular to the radius line of the Death Star, which is consistent with the left side option and inconsistent with the right side one (where the opening to space would be on the top).
Judging by their ships, they have gravity generators which are small enough and have a small enough ratio of energy consumption to energy generation to be used in something like the Millenium Falcon.
Indeed and it’s quite clear that the Falcon has two gravity planes perpendicular to each other: 1. the plane that supports everyone on the main deck (cockpit, crew lounge, etc.) and 2. the gun battery gravity plane at 90 degrees. This is easiest to see in A New Hope during the TIE Fighter battle in the escape from the Death Star. Han and Luke are sitting back-to-back, separated by a short corridor that sits perpendicular to the main deck. I don’t think most people notice this because it’s not obvious.
Probably left simply because The death star is big but I don't believe it's big enough to hide the curve