Can anyone please elaborate where is the location of the two officers that are watching the escape pod leaving from Tantive?

Are they facing down like the gunners of millennium falcon and defying gravity?

Can i assume tho to a strictly horizontal star wars universe that this can happen?

Also from directing pov do you think that shot is necessary when we get the same info later in the movie?

Should I can add more escape pods gets destroyed so the officers have the dilemma and the shot stays?

Or maybe have them shooting at it but they leave it because the miss enough times and it has no life forms?

-Berry