Existe algum benefício além da regra legal para a maioria das naves de Star Wars que têm asas atuantes?

É porque a grande maioria dos veículos no universo de Star Wars é composta de multimídia, capaz de viajar tanto em atmosfera espacial quanto .

X-Wing

Asa B

Tie-Striker

Não é apenas a regra do legal. A principal razão é a regra do resfriamento. Uma razão secundária poderia ser deduzida de que isso permitia que os navios maximizassem o espaço de armazenamento sem limitar a capacidade das armas (semelhante às aeronaves modernas). Por fim, em alguns artigos Legends, as folhas S servem para estabilizar o vôo atmosférico.

De Arc-170

During battle, the craft's S-foils opened to expose heat sinks and radiators to help cool the ship, and the two main forward medium laser cannons located on the underside of its outer wings were uncommonly large and powerful.

Também em S-Foils

Notable model to have S-foils was the T-65B X-wing starfighter manufactured by Incom Corporation, posed a distinctive X shape when the S-foils were locked in attack position, which gave the laser cannons mounted on each wing a wider field of firing range.

Mais uma vez em B-Wing

Two S-foils just below the engine on either side of the main airfoil could be extended to deploy twin laser cannons.4 It held a total of four laser cannons, and was also armed with proton torpedoes and ion cannons

De ETA-2

S-foils, that were opened to shed excess heat from the ship's engines. The radiator wings were primarily opened during intense combat.4

De Delta 7B

The Delta-7B also had a set of pop-out S-foils that could be extended for certain flight maneuvers