Is the Death Star not a huge waste of resources? Instead...

Is the Death Star not a huge waste of resources? Instead, they could build more space ships and use mega nukes for world destruction

Science fiction has no sense of scale.

its not a waste of resources if you want to destroy planets, and now with that absolute shitshow 'starkiller base' introduced it looks like even more of a good deal because its mobile and can target different systems.

starkiller base is the waste of resources

Its pretty much fact now that the writer of Rogue one has confirmed that the empire will stop at nothing to kill all non whites.

This is the only star wars super weapon that makes sense, and is actually useful.

I'm sure Disney will rip it off soon.

they cant without massively changing it... none of the movies had anything like machines powered by the force, so dont expect it to work that way

They fucked up Star Killer so fucking bad. The most horrendous thing is they could have fixed it just by enticing a physics undergrad over with the promise of a free lunch.

>Star Killer base simply uses the energy on the surface of a star, making it temporarily dim

THERE! FIXED! ARE THE PEOPLE BEHIND THIS MOVIE SO FUCKING RETARDED THAT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE IMMENSE SCALE OF STARS!?

You mean space operas

No that still doesn't explain how it destroys planets light years away in an instant

Obviously they opened up a hyperspace corridor. If the Falcon can do it, then I'm sure the empire could make one to encompass plasma.

Build that thing so you cant destroy a couple of planets.
Why?
What's the end game here? Blow up everyone?

Lucas would have given us a film that made sense.

The first two nukes dropped on Japan could probably buy enough incendiary bombs to light half the country on fire, but they still made the nukes

If they could there would be no need for space ships at all.

It uses hyperspace, obviously.

If they want that slow ominous beam that we saw moving at the actual speed of light then they should give the Star Killer a hyperdrive. There is no cinematic reason why they had to be as retarded about the concept of the station as they were.

Yeah, the whole concept is fairly weak beyond wiping out an entire system of planets at once. The Death Star worked better because it was this huge, sterile, gray space station that wasn't space anchored anywhere. The laser could be a bit better, though. Blowing up a planet is kind of a waste when you're wrecking a habitable world and doing it with such force you can't really mine the asteroids that are left.

Even then, Zentraedi style orbital bombardment obliteration is scarier because it's less planet assassination and more "aw shit, here comes the imperial fleet".

Not to mention the thing is totally a space nuke. I mean, the rebels just blew up the first one, but imagine they had built their own? Fly that thing to Coruscant and no more seat of the empire. Not like you even need the space station for that matter. You just need the firing mechanism and an assurance it can reach the target.

looks like some 80's amine bullshit

It was a massive fucking waste of personnel. Think about how many technicians, engineers, and other trained people were on-board. Stormtroopers are expendable since they're clones, but having experienced officers and support is invaluable.

Stormtroopers are humans.

I think we can all agree that Star Wars and actual science don't mix well, and that's fine, Star Wars was designed by Lucas to be Flash Gordon 2.0 and has more in common with fantasy works than it does with other Sci-Fi material.

The problem is that if you want to create a fantasy world that people can grow attached to and really expand upon it where you have movies and books and tv shows and games etc... you need to have internally consistent logic to how things work. You're making up all the rules which is fine, but those rules need to be upheld otherwise your wonderful fictional world becomes a sloppy mess.

For instance in Star Wars Episode V the main cast all starts on Hoth and they all end up on Bespin. Luke makes a stop at Degobah to train with Kermit the frog's great grandfather, and Han & Crew play out their vore fetish with a giant space worm. Now we know that Bespin is an entirely different system of planets because Leia asks "Lando System" and Han corrects "Noad system" so it's not in the same solar system as Hoth. However the Falcon's hyperdrive is out for the entire movie so they got there by just putting along at normal speed. We also never see Luke go into hyperspace at any point from his trip to or from Degobah. So we can pretty safely assume that you can get from one star system to another without Hyperspace.

Cool, fine, but that would need to be kept constant across all of the other Star Wars material. This is where all the headaches come in because you have to do this kind of record keeping with each and every facet of this universe.

The clones are one of the single worst things that Lucas put into the prequels, and did it all because of a throwaway line from episode IV that doesn't really even imply that the clones are used they way that they are.

If you just randomly heard someone talk about "The Clone Wars" your first instinct would probably be two warring sides each with armies of clones, most likely an escalating conflict brought upon by a few that hurls increasing numbers of expendable cloned people or monsters at each other across hundreds or thousands of star systems. If it was just clones vs. robots and the robots were the chief antagonists from the victor's perspective why wouldn't it be called "the war of robot aggression" or "the trade wars" or "the separatist conflict" or something that actually made sense. It would be like calling the american civil war "The Blue-Shirt War". Also in fucking episode II, after the very first battle in what is likely a 4-5 year long conflict Yoda declares "Begun the Clone War has" How does he know the name of the war already, and why has he named the war after the troops on his side of the conflict?

Am I the only one confused by all this stupid shit.

Their intention was not to destroy Japan tho, was it?

Lasers never end bro.

Clones are cool, fuck you

Why does it have to be a spherical spacestation?

Why not just make the dish and the bits behind it?

who cares, this movie is going to blow

>Am I the only one confused by all this stupid shit.
Yes.

I find the worst part of this is that with all of the fucking screencaps of this post floating around you chose to post a pic in which someone actually took a fucking picture of their screen.

The Empire already had piles of space ships. The only thing really wrong with the Death Star is how many Stormtoopers it required to function.

From what I can remember the whole fucking facility needed TIE pilots, a couple of guys to pull levers to fire the 'fuck your planet' laser and one evil british guy on a bridge to give the order to do so.

I'd rather be on a Star Destroyer tbqh.

Your comment makes not sense.