The weapon ran on a type of dark energy called "quintessence", which was ubiquitous in the universe, and offered a practically unlimited power source to the First Order. Using a star as a power source, an array of collectors on one side of the planet would gather dark energy in stages, redirecting it to the planetary core, where it was held in place by the natural magnetic field of the planet, as well as an artificial containment field maintained by the machinery the First Order had installed within the crust. As the planetary magnetic field would not be enough to contain the amount of energy that the weapon required, a thermal oscillator[4] was built into the planet. It generated an oscillating containment field which allowed the installation to expend considerably less energy at containing the dark energy than would be required using a steady containment field. A colossal hollow cylinder, large enough to dominate the view of the planet from orbit, penetrated the containment field to a predetermined distance, in order to direct the blast towards its target, and also to absorb its energy, which would otherwise cause catastrophic groundquakes. This design made the weapon vulnerable when it was fully charged, as the destruction of the containment field oscillator the moment before the weapon fired would release the accumulated energy not through the firing cylinder, but throughout the planetary core where it was being held, leading to the gradual collapse of the surface into the core
The weapon ran on a type of dark energy called "quintessence", which was ubiquitous in the universe...
As Starkiller Base was charged through the power of stars, it gradually blocked out sunlight until, running at full capacity, it extinguished it completely, leaving the surface in darkness. In order for the weapon to fire, its weapons engineers would induce a breach in the containment field, allowing the collected dark energy to escape the core through the hollow cylinder opening on the antipodes of the planet relative to the stellar collector. During this process, the dark energy transformed to a state known as "phantom energy", and left the planet behind, tearing a hole through hyperspace along a perfectly linear path. The people stationed at the Base called the dimension through which the phantom energy beam traveled "sub-hyperspace", and this method of delivering the payload was near-instantaneous across vast distances. The rotation and inclination of the planet had to be taken into account for the weapon to target something, and also the lack of obstacles between it and the target, as the phantom energy beam would only be intercepted by an object of sufficient mass (like a planet). When the phantom energy struck a planet, the interaction produced enough heat to ignite the planet's core, creating a pocket nova. The space-time disruption caused by the phantom energy's passage would make the nova instantaneously visible thousands of light years away.
>hurfdurf its a death star inside a planet and it blows up three planets for one
>iuhhh it eats the sun to fire its shooty lasers pew pew
Do you have a tl;dr version?
The tl;dr is that it absorbs a star and shoots the energy at other planets, but the point here is how utterly retarded the whole process sounds even by Star Wars standards
Not answering while the whole planet didn't become a sheet of ice after extinguishing the sun
Does the Earth become a sheet of ice at night?
Does the sun extinguish itself every night you fucking moron ?
Should've just used the Star Forge
It vanishes for several hours every night and yet the planet remains relatively warm even on the dark side. You know why? Because things the size of a fucking planet don't radiate all of their heat in a matter of seconds. Especially not things covered in an atmosphere that also happen to have a very hot nucleus of molten iron like rock planets tend to have.
Without a nearby star the Starkiller planet will eventually freeze, yes. But that's going to take a very long time. Not ven half an hour passes between the death of the star and the destruction of the planet, in that time the temperature won't drop significantly.
The sun doesn't vanish moron. Just because you turn around and stop looking at a thing doesn't mean that thing stops existing.
>Luke, did I ever tell you about a type of dark energy called "quintessence"? It is ubiquitous in the universe, and will offer a practically unlimited power source to the First Order. Using a star as a power source, an array of collectors on one side of the planet would gather dark energy in stages, redirecting it to the planetary core, where it was held in place by the natural magnetic field of the planet, as well as an artificial containment field maintained by the machinery the First Order had installed within the crust. As the planetary magnetic field would not be enough to contain the amount of energy that the weapon required, a thermal oscillator[4] was built into the planet. It generated an oscillating containment field which allowed the installation to expend considerably less energy at containing the dark energy than would be required using a steady containment field. A colossal hollow cylinder, large enough to dominate the view of the planet from orbit, penetrated the containment field to a predetermined distance, in order to direct the blast towards its target, and also to absorb its energy, which would otherwise cause catastrophic groundquakes. This design made the weapon vulnerable when it was fully charged, as the destruction of the containment field oscillator the moment before the weapon fired would release the accumulated energy not through the firing cylinder, but throughout the planetary core where it was being held, leading to the gradual collapse of the surface into the core. It was a good source of energy.
>the sun vanishes for several hours every night
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Of course it doesn't vanish, mr Literal. The effect on the planet is the same: one side of the planet stops receiving external energy. Yet that side of the planet doesn't magically drop to -200C and get covered in five kms of ice.
Are you two actually autistic enough to not understand that I'm not saying the sun vanishes literally?
>that also happen to have a very hot nucleus of molten iron like rock planets tend to have.
Heat from the center of the Earth has nothing to do with surface temps. Volcanoes don't put out enough heat to warm the surface. We get our heat from the sun and retain it through greenhouse gasses. The sun is why we have the tropics and why we have seasons. If the sun went away the planet would get colder and colder until permanent ice age. Despite still having a molten core.
Now I agree that we wouldn't freeze to death immediately so I don't agree 100% with the other guy either. If the sun left we still have an atmosphere and would still retain heat for a while. As long as starkiller moved to another solar system they wouldn't all freeze to death. Plus you can come up wit sci-fi mumbo jumbo to explain them not freezing. Like they use some of the energy to vent heat all over the planet. Or they made the atmosphere thicker to retain more heat.
Quintessence is an unnecessary contrivance considering all the energy a star puts out. They could have just let it be nuclear fusion on a massive scale and been okay.
So the next one is going to be a Dyson Sphere?
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>anons arguing about where the sun goes at night
>unlimited power
This sounds like some shitty fanfic from a 6 year old...
So we all agree that this is some fanficiton bullshit they've created to justify creating another darth star to capitalize on nostalgia?
Within a week, the average global surface temperature would drop below 0°F. In a year, it would dip to –100°. The top layers of the oceans would freeze over, but in an apocalyptic irony, that ice would insulate the deep water below and prevent the oceans from freezing solid for hundreds of thousands of years. Millions of years after that, our planet would reach a stable –400°, the temperature at which the heat radiating from the planet's core would equal the heat that the Earth radiates into space.
It vanishes!!!
>Luke, did I ever tell you about the Anal Cannon? The Anal Cannon is loaded when a funnel is placed into an asshole, and the 2nd whore pukes into it. After the ass is filled with puke, a cock then fucks it until the pressure is all built up. After the Asshole has been fucked hard enough, the cock is pulled out and the Anal cannon explodes! To top it all off, ass to mouth occurs, with both ladies licking off the fresh mix of vomit and ass for the ultimate anal dessert! They were good friends.
>m-muh kids movie doesn't follow physics
Wow. Guess I learned something huh?
Yes. It literally would have taken them giving a free lunch to a physics undergrad to come up with a decent rationalization by Star Wars standards. The fact is that JJ always caters to the lowest common denominator. He rationalizes his failings as "haha, it's just a movie".
>No hyperdrive
>Can't move
>Has to absorb a whole star to shoot twice
>Therefore can only shoot twice
Thanks JJ
I love how hack authors use recently discovered science shit to explain the magic, as if that gives it scientific credibility.
It's very inefficient you have to use an entire star just to destroy a few planets
>>No hyperdrive
>>Can't move
That's where you're wrong
wait so it moves below the speed of light?
So it is like 500 years to go out of a system or what?
It's a planet that can somehow store an entire star inside it, what makes you think it can't also fly at 600 times the speed of light
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>The weapon ran on a type of dark energy called "quintessence"
How?
You cant make machines run on nuclear power, you convert that nuclear power into electricity which then can be used to make the machine do its job.
How the actual fuck do you convert a fundamental energy into electricity?
They use the word instantaneous twice without realizing such a word is an oxymoron in such situations
Depends on the energy needed
They could be shooting through energy shields, which might mean you need an order of magnitude higher
>tfw all it would need to do is just eat the sun and all the planets would just accelerate out into different corners of space
It's honestly an act of mercy to use that energy to shoot them. I'd rather die instantly then to die a slow death on a planet that is headed into oblivion.
What if starkiller base wasn't facing the same direction as its intended target
I like how they made it consistent in both new movies that they're fueled by star matter.
It's also cool that the same thing powers the death star and lightsabers.
that's bullshit
The point is that it could have made sense without losing anything cinematically, but JJ is a hack who caters to the lowest common denominator of the audience.
My biggest problem with this weapon and the First Order's use of it is that they act like habitable planets are a dime a dozen an that three of them being destroyed at once is nothing to fret about. It's stupid as hell and a horrific waste of resources with a sun being consumed and thus the death an entire system and of course the target planets destruction. Fuck, episode VIII is so fucking bad.
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