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Was the Death Star really necessary?
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That has me wondering... what would happen if Star Wars made today?
Luke Skywalker is the evil's, he killed billions of people in a terrorist attack. The next two films follow Tommy Lee Jones aka Anakin Skywalker track down his terrorist son to bring him to justice.
Doublesith
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Staying in orbit is harder then you think, its the delicate tipping point of drifting into space or falling to the planet.
if you push the moon closer to the planet, it will graduatly fall towards the planet, if you push the moon outwards towards outer space it will drift off. it doesnt simply pick a new orbit. Thats not how it works, because once the body escapes the gravity pull of the planet it will spiral out into space.
He was always evil, as were the rest of the Jedi.
The Death Star is necessary the same way an air craft carrier is necessary in a world which has nuclear missiles. It's a show of force and a way to carry troops to where they are needed.
What I want to know is, what does it look like when the Death Star goes into hyperspace. That thing can't possibly travel at the speed of a regular planet or moon, otherwise its range is very limited. And imagine the thrusters necessary to get it traveling faster than light!
What I want to know is, what does it look like when the Death Star goes into hyperspace. That thing can't possibly travel at the speed of a regular planet or moon, otherwise its range is very limited. And imagine the thrusters necessary to get it traveling faster than light!
I saw the Death Star as a kind of deterrence against anyone who acted against the Empire, similar to how countries have nuclear weapons as a deterrence to defend themselves.
I'm reading the Legacy of the Force now in the Expanded Universe. Interesting book series so far. I'm reading Bloodlines now.
I'm reading the Legacy of the Force now in the Expanded Universe. Interesting book series so far. I'm reading Bloodlines now.
The Sith project unfortunately wasn't "shovel ready", unlike the Death Star project, which was ready to put billions of people to work.
Synth_floyd
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Because the movie would've sucked if there was no death star.
I imagine it would start off slowly and then pick up speed, like when you and a bunch of guys are trying to push a stalled truck.
Sith are not the Star Wars villain you are looking for if you want to crash a moon into a planet. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Yo'gand's_Core
AlimNassor
Banned
Wat about Thrawn? It was a better series then the prequels.
Anyways, if Thrawn were emperor, you can bet he wouldn't have super weapons. Its much easier to have a massive fleet and troops then a single superweapon
The Thrawn trilogy is the best Star Wars thing ever created aside from the first two films. I wish it were possible to get young Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Billy Dee Williams in order to film it. Preferably with George not directing.
AlimNassor
Banned
Oh god yes.
ThoseDeafMutes
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It was the scripts, not the direction, that was the primary failing of the prequel trilogy. I'm happy to have him directing as long as he didn't pen the scripts.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
And the casting. Well, two actors. Well, two actors playing the same character. I mean, you'd think their standards would be a bit higher for the main character of the entire series.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Agreed. He still had a good eye for action.
The biggest space battle in the trilogy is dominated by Obi-Wan trying to remove what are basically droid fleas from his fighter.
I guess the action looked good, but it was still awful.
More Fun To Compute
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Star Wars isn't real. A man made it up. He needed something big because he wanted to recreate the bombing scenes from the Dam Busters movie.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Script was the first issue there.
bu bu bu... a long time ago in a galaxy far far away... it didn't say it was a long time ago in a fictional galaxy far far away
More Fun To Compute
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bu bu bu... a long time ago in a galaxy far far away... it didn't say it was a long time ago in a fictional galaxy far far away
You guys are old enough to know the truth now.
FlashbladeGAF
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Lazy vs Crazy
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Funny story about that....
I find the Force Unleashed (the first one, not the sequel) to a pretty good addition... especially given all the extended universe stuff that coulda/shoulda/didn'ta happen.
Seriously. TFU was the best 'Star Wars' experience outside the original trilogy.
jossueinacoma
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ThoseDeafMutes
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The Force Unleashed is the best Star Wars experience available on N-Gage 2,0, maybe. I'd still rather drag my dick through a mile of broken glass than play it, though.
sith weren't always the most practical. That's more of a Jedi thing. Sith are more about bombastic passion and being ostentatious with dreams of grandeur and schemes to make those ideas real.
Anyway, force projection. Tactical force I mean, not metaphysical. Park a Death Star in a quadrant, and every neighboring quad will be quaking in their beds hoping their corner of the galaxy won't be the next stop. I'm sure the idea was to eventually build more than one. But this is the equivalent of an Aircraft Carrier with chemical lasers, nuclear tipped cruise missiles, and a railgun.
Anyway, force projection. Tactical force I mean, not metaphysical. Park a Death Star in a quadrant, and every neighboring quad will be quaking in their beds hoping their corner of the galaxy won't be the next stop. I'm sure the idea was to eventually build more than one. But this is the equivalent of an Aircraft Carrier with chemical lasers, nuclear tipped cruise missiles, and a railgun.
Jedi Knight II would like to have a word with you.
Right answer. Never forget episode 1.
No jedi did midichlorian doping because the Jedi Council would have banned them from the Force Olympics.
Forsaken82
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If im not mistaken (i didn't read it, only heard!) a sith lord
crushes chewbacca with a planet, or rather by moving the planet close enough to affect the gravity
If im not mistaken (i didn't read it, only heard!) a sith lordso it is apparently possiblecrushes chewbacca with a planet, or rather by moving the planet close enough to affect the gravity
Nah. (New Jedi Order books spoiler)
An alien species from beyond the galaxy plants a creature that can manipulate gravity onto a planet and it pulls the moon down. Chewbacca sacrifices himself to get one of Han's kids onto the last ship off the planet.
Oddly enough I own that one, but never got into it. It's set years outside the original films, though, which makes it feel more like EU to me maybe.
People warned me of this expanded universe.
What do you think this is, gundam?
NathanMcMahon
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yes. yes it was:
It definitely has a lot of EU style stuff, but you also pal around with a lot of original trilogy characters. I guess the best part of it was that I never felt more like a Jedi than when I was playing JKII. Though you absolutely have to play the game with the saber dismemberment cheat on. It turns both your lightsaber and the enemy's into the deadly weapon is should be. And you can cut Stormtroopers into pieces while running at super speed.
Yeah... I stopped pretty soon after the events I described there.
Well if they had 'canon', why did they need any other weapons?
Skiptastic
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That's probably because you don't get a lot of footage of what's happening on Coruscant or other Empire controlled areas for the most part in the original series. It's all focused on Luke and the Rebel Alliance, who starts off in Hutt territory on Tatooine (Empire holds some weight there but pretty much doesn't bother it too much), then to Hoth, Dagobah and Cloud City on Bespin (the first two are remote and fairly uninhabitable, Bespin soon fell under Empire control), then to Tatooine again and Endor.
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