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[Star Wars] What is the primary advantage of pit-based technology?

From the reactor complex under Naboo Palace, to the tractor beam override and reactor vents on the Death Stars (I and II, respectively), to the [](#s "thermal oscillator on Starkiller Base"), deep, wide pits appear to be central to all large-scale technology in the galaxy.  Is there some advantage to this design that keeps it coming back generation after generation?  Or is it just an engineering tradition that refuses to die?
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It's just good engineering. Those pits represent huge hollow spaces in the space stations/structures that make them all much lighter. It would be impossible to get a solid Death Star into hyperspace using any reasonable amount of energy.