Talk:Fenn Rau/@comment-454133-20160906181342/@comment-454133-20160928164054

I supposed debris obstacles are chunks large enough to pose a special threat.

Modern real-world fighter aircraft use a lot of magnesium, because it's both hard and lightweight. A side-effect of this is, once there's a fire they go up in flames very fast. I like to imagine the Star Wars ships are made of even more volatile materials by necessity for space flight; once their engines or generators go, nearly the whole ship vaporizes with them within a second or so.