Talk:Tractor Beam/@comment-159.45.186.43-20170622212454/@comment-31354887-20170623013058

Fluff wise, a ship being hit with a tractor beam in the middle of a dogfight still has it's engines running, the reason you can't move another ship backwards is probably because the tractor beam can't completely overcome the force of the enemy ship's engines, the best it can do is yank it to the side, or force it to go faster (the 1 forward).

A more powerful tractor beam (such as one on a Star Destroyer) could probably halt a small ship in place. Perhaps someday they'll make a special huge-ship only tractor beam that lets you move another ship backwards.