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Post by sindo on May 29, 2005 18:31:48 GMT
To tell the truth I have not liked the two past death stars. I mean after the first was destroyed would it not be more logical to build a second one with no externally penetrable weaknesses. Why was the second Death Star not built with no weaknesses or with the only weakness being built inside so no fighters could destroy it???
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Post by Darth Sidious on May 29, 2005 23:05:01 GMT
In my opinion the Death Star's were a waste of resources..
If you have the power of the dark side, why do you need a technological construct? I can understand that the principle of the rule through fear would require something tangible to be afraid of, but when you have a fleet of some 25,000 ISD's of various classes, and two people who can kill with a simple thought, and one of whom is most definately visually intimidating , if not terrifying, whether he uses said powers or not...
as spoken by vader in ANH.
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The first production Death Star was built on an assumption of.. i suppose you could say invulnerability..
The Empire, and Tarkin far more so, clearly believed that the Rebel forces could not possibly pose any kind of conceivable threat to such an immense battlestation.
after the destruction of the first such station, the second was designed so that it would have no such weaknesses whatsoever.
Unfortunately however, the station was never completed. If it was, then no rebel fighters would have been able to fly into it. it would have been a case of getting as many capships as possible to go up against it and try to bombard it. Somehow i doubt that if it had been completed that the Rebels would have been able to destroy it at all.
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Post by sindo on May 30, 2005 1:34:33 GMT
I agree that if it was finished the rebel scum would never have been able to destroy the Death Star but to say that with the Dark Side the Daeth Star is not needed in my opinion is too arrogant. Just imagine the power that the Emperor would have with both the Dark Side and the ability to destroy entire star systems at his finger tips.
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Post by Darth Sidious on May 30, 2005 3:18:21 GMT
Such is hard to imagine. I tend to agree with the issue of the death star, speaking from an engineer's POV it would be a masterpiece in terms of its design and construction, however economically speaking it is a waste, mainly in terms of resources used that could have potentially been devoted to other projects, altough when you have the resources of an entire galaxy to call on, maybe not.
However, when/ if you compare the abilities of the Death Star to a Master of the Dark Side, the Death Star will come up lacking.
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Post by sindo on May 30, 2005 20:06:44 GMT
I see that to be true
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Post by Darth Cassus on Aug 3, 2005 20:17:15 GMT
the second death star was only a waste because we got to cocky and lead the rebels to a incomplete battle station. If the info. was never perposly leaked the Death star loction would have remained a mystery and we could have crushed the rebels with the new improved death star.
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Post by Darth Sidious on Aug 3, 2005 23:27:43 GMT
Just to reiterate an earlier point, and since i have since found out more.
The only major points of the Death Star were as follows: 1) It was a status symbol, it proclaims to the galaxy - we are the empire, we do whatever we wish, whenever we wish.
2) It was a representation of the combined abilities of the imperial forces - to build such an enormous thing is no easy, quick, or simple feat.
3) this one has recently come to my attention: The construction of such a facility was yet another part of the Emperor's plan's to have a more direct control over his military forces, as were his grand admiral's also part of the same plan.
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Post by sindo on Aug 16, 2005 2:23:22 GMT
Three good points.
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