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It also explains how the death star had such a convenient and rather terrible weakness that the rebels could take advantage of. It doesn't explain why the rebels didn't just fly into the part of the trench where they needed to shoot the torpedoes at directly... but either way, having the rebel groups assaulting the defenses and doing suicide runs in the trench are some of my favorite scenes in the franchise.