re: Right now I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself.

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I don't know why most Star Wars ships don't have weapons on the back (or sides). At least, have one or more multi-directional turrets controlled by a second person like Dak, or a computer or an R2 unit.

The Death Star Trench Run unnecessarily sacrificed a lot of defenseless X-wing pilots running interference by following the leader as they couldn't shoot the Tie Fighters who were following behind them. And if the Tie Fighters had multi-directional guns, they wouldn't had to even enter the trench. They could've shot down at the X-wings from above.

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i think the general idea was they were designed to be like fighter jets, and F-16s, etc, dont have multi-directional guns either.