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SPOILERS - Star Wars The Force Awakens Discussion and Overanalysis
Neko_Ali:
Well they never showed the Death Star moving at all. But they did talk about 'setting course' so clearly it does. The first two super lasers were powerful, but still direct fire weapons. They had to be in the system they wanted to attack, and move around planets. Hence the whole count down thing in episode 4 where the Rebels were racing to blow it up before it could destroy Yavin 4. So it moved and had to use hyperspace. It was just so big and moved so slow it seemed stationary unless you were viewing it from very far away.
Starkiller Base through throws out any kind of physics or concept of distances in space. It could fire tracking energy beams that would travel across interstellar distances, curving to hit their targets and destroy them in a big, dramatic group shot. Something that would never happen. You never see five planets close enough together to be visible in one shot. Even if they are all part of the same system. And that's without even getting into the ridiculousness of the power supply and the likelyhood they would need to relocate every time they fired.
sitnspin:
They call it a "hyperspace weapon" so I guess it is supposed to shoot through hyperspace, but the visuals did not back that up. One of my biggest complaints about the film was the complete and utter lack of understanding of scale on the part of the filmmakers.
LeeC:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 04 Jan 2016, 22:30 ---How do you aim a weapon made out of a planet? Do you just wait until it rotates to the position you want? And that doesn't take into account the fact that space is three dimensional. What about the z-axis?
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Now that I think about it, they never showed the Death Star enter hyperspace. How did it get from system to system? Space is unfathomably big.
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maybe they used the force
sitnspin:
Maybe I should just accept "The Force" as the default response to any unanswered questions in the film series
LeeC:
Like in Xena... a wizard did it.
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