Repulsorlifts are magical. They levitate ships with no external outputs. They’re also perfectly well suited to explain how a fragment of a ship can crash from a high altitude without being destroyed. As an anti-gravity device, repulsorlifts can greatly reduce or eliminate the need for any orbital velocity, making re-entry much more viable. And in the same vein, they can reduce a ship’s effective gravitational mass enough that its terminal velocity is survivable.
They’re not magical in-world, just like how Jedi aren’t actually wizards, but Force users. But they are just as magical as the Force is with respect to the real world.
Repulsorlifts are magical. They levitate ships with no external outputs. They’re also perfectly well suited to explain how a fragment of a ship can crash from a high altitude without being destroyed. As an anti-gravity device, repulsorlifts can greatly reduce or eliminate the need for any orbital velocity, making re-entry much more viable. And in the same vein, they can reduce a ship’s effective gravitational mass enough that its terminal velocity is survivable.
They are not magical. It took me 3 seconds to look up that it’s tech with an in universe explanation.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Repulsorlift#:~:text=Repulsorlift%20was%20a%20technology%20that,a%20planet’s%20natural%20gravitational%20field.
They’re not magical in-world, just like how Jedi aren’t actually wizards, but Force users. But they are just as magical as the Force is with respect to the real world.