You learn something new every day

[andrewducker]

I'm going back through my comics filter to catch up on two weeks of comics (I'm at skip=140 at the moment) and I bumped into an explanation of why there's sound during the space battles in Star Wars. Apparently it's in the first Star Wars novelisation:

Your sensors'll give you an audio simulation for a rough idea of where those fighters are when they're not on your screen. It'll sound like they're right there in the turret with you.

How perfect is that?