Spoilers Andor - Season 2
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Because, why not?
Chekhov's gun.
Yes, I should have said "supposed plot hole" the fact that the death star has a weakness could easily just be down to Imperial incompetence or bad planning!
No one who didn't use the Force made the shot, and we know prideful, Force-chokable Imperials like Motti didn't take that sort of thing seriously. Just classic hubris, really.
His voice sounds so weird in those early videos.
I remember in Legends continuity that particular ventilation shaft wasn't even part of the schematics, it was only added during construction due to the belief that given how powerful the weapon is, a few more ventilation shafts couldn't possibly be a bad idea.
I don't think you understand what plot hole means.
There was no plot hole regarding the stealing of the Death Star plans.
To be absolutely clear. I meant 'supposed' plot hole, and it isn't one I personally ever thought was a plot hole, but some people did, namely that the Empire building a giant moon sized battle station capable of destroying planets yet it's vulnerable to a lucky shot in the right spot. Again, I don't think this is a plot hole, I think it's a bit of bad planning in a huge construction project and/or Imperial hubris, and not something anyone ever thought could be exploited. But some people did have an issue with it, and clearly some of those involved in Rogue One felt it needed to be addressed and so they put in there that Galen Erso deliberately created the weakness.
I thought it was poor management skills.
If you want to count the tie in novels, Galen *did* insist on adding the secondary exhaust port, but it had nothing to do with what he did with the reactor, it was a complete coincidence the Rebels found it and exploited it.
Also completely unrelated to Andor/Rogue One, but another misconception people have with the movies.
The Bothan spies did not steal the plans for the Second Death Star, the info they acquired was its location and the fact the Emperor would be there. It is right in the dialogue of the movie.
Also completely unrelated to Andor/Rogue One, but another misconception people have with the movies.
The Bothan spies did not steal the plans for the Second Death Star, the info they acquired was its location and the fact the Emperor would be there. It is right in the dialogue of the movie.
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No, that's just the Galactic Empire as a whole.
The Emperor hired only the best people.
Which appears to have been limited to Lonni Jung and the guy who fed the dianoga in the Death Star trash compactor.
Far too many people still ask* "Where were the Bothans in Rogue One?!" You can't expect those people to actually check the movie they think they're referencing.
*Not here, but I still see it 'round the innernets to this day.
Yeah, the impression I got from the movie was that he made the reactor a powder-keg, but actually getting an explosive in there would have to be the attacker's prerogative. For instance, a different cell might not have had the fighter squadrons to go for the exhaust port, but may have had more transports and opted for a commando raid. If Luthen had gotten the message (disregarding my prior point that he never would've let Galen live to sabotage the Death Star in the first place), he might've had a spy infiltrate the crew and use some hidden ducts and sealed-off construction passages to get close enough to plant an explosion or rig up something from materials at hand.
I also assumed after Rogue One that the "power regulator" Wedge had to torpedo before Lando could destroy the second Death Star's reactor was a patch intended to prevent the station from instantly exploding if the reactor was disturbed, suggesting that Galen may have over-estimated the Empire's technical abilities; he thought they could've finished the station without him, but they apparently couldn't build a version of the main reactor that wasn't dangerously unstable, and just had to bolt on an extra part to try and correct it.
On the other hand, Krennic did execute the entire lead engineering team, so maybe there had been people who could've built a flawless reactor, but they were all dead. Or, alternatively, the Death Star II might've already had its reactor built before the first one was destroyed, if we go with the theory that the Empire was already working on it. Another point in favor of that is that Catalyst (and Andor) shows that the actual station was relatively straightforward to build, and the majority of the trouble was making a working weapon large enough to justify the platform it was being installed within. Perhaps they went the other way around with DS II, building a duplicate (or, rather, somewhat larger) superlaser and reactor in parallel with the main one, and then building the rest of the station around it.
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