StarKiller {SPOILER}

[The Overlord]

I can't believe that the First Order, which should have a fraction of the Empire's resources, managed to build a weapon that was far better then anything the Empire had, Also why doesn't the Republic have anything to counter the First Order's weapons, shouldn't the Republic have equal or even superior resources to the Order? What did the Republic spend all its money on education, health care and infrastructure, while the Order just builds giant laser weapons?

Also the Order should be completely crippled after losing all the personal and resources they had on the Star Killer base.

 

[Ithekro]

Starkiller Base must be making them at StarDestroyer.whatever go nuts trying to scientifically measure the power needed and how it could work, and just how much better it is than Star Trek technology.

 

[Trekker4747]

StarKiller Base is actually Endor. The First Order massacred the Ewoks and converted their planet into a weapon.

Endor is a moon.

That's no moon....

 

[Tosk]

I never thought that the planet was a "real" planet myself. I figured it was just another super-sized Death Star that just happened to have a planet-like skin, bi-sected by the space-station-y equator.

If it was compltely constructed from scratch, why would they bother to cover the base with trees and mountains and snow and an atmosphere?

Why wouldn't they? Where is it stated that there's only one model of Death Star?

Obviously I'm not saying they can't...I'm just wondering what the point would be. Honest question.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

The dialogue said it was constructed in a planet (it was referred to as a giant laser because of that). It's something I missed the first time, but it was either Miles Straume or Matt Parkman who said it.

 

[Set Harth]

That's a pretty small planet, isn't it?

 

[Arrrrgggh]

That's a pretty small planet, isn't it?

To be fair, the physics of the Star Wars galaxy are really weird. My conclusion is that everything in it is actually really, really small and the resulting gravity is miniscule compared to what reality would dictate. Otherwise all those crashed Star Destroyers and Super Star Destroyers would have obliterated all life on the planets they crashed into (if not the world itself). Yet they didn't even make so much as a notable crater. It also helps explain why their antigrav technology is so powerful and reliable.

 

[Set Harth]

The dialogue said it was constructed in a planet

I guess that explains the corridors that have rock walls on one side, which would otherwise be kind of a weird stylistic choice.

 

[RoJoHen]

StarKiller Base is actually Endor. The First Order massacred the Ewoks and converted their planet into a weapon.

Endor is a moon.

YOU'RE A MOON!

 

[Arrrrgggh]

StarKiller Base is actually Endor. The First Order massacred the Ewoks and converted their planet into a weapon.

Endor is a moon.

No, Endor was the planet. The moon, which the ewoks inhabited, was an unnamed forest moon of Endor.

That said, the Starkiller wasn't Endor because Endor was a gas giant.

 

[Kor]

Vader: "A small Rebel force has penetrated the shield and landed on Endor."

Kor

 

[Arrrrgggh]

He's a Sith warrior, not a geographical scholar.

 

[USS Triumphant]

That's a pretty small planet, isn't it?

No. And neither is Pluto. Don't encourage them.

 

[ancient]

That's a pretty small planet, isn't it?

No. And neither is Pluto. Don't encourage them.

It's a dwarf planet. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go visit the dwarf country of England. It's like a normal country, but tiny, so scientists downgraded it. Sorry guys!

 

[Kemaiku]

wait.. the sun does more than provide light. It makes a planet habitable. If you extinguish the sun, ... the planet won't just go dark.. all life will die. When Soran in Star Trek Generations launched the probe into the Veridian Star and that sun went dark.. I'm sorry everyone would have died instantly.

Who says it would be instantaneous? What is that based on?

Kor

I guarantee that if the sun were to go out.. everyone here would freeze instantly

We would lose all light 8.5 minutes later. It would take time for the residual heat of the sun to wear off, then there would be the reduced interaction with the mantel and radioactive heating produced from below.

We would freeze, but it would take an unspecified amount of time since we don't know the full extent of mantel based heat production.

Instant? nothing known would do that.

 

[Trekker4747]

Who says it would be instantaneous? What is that based on?

Kor

I guarantee that if the sun were to go out.. everyone here would freeze instantly

We would lose all light 8.5 minutes later. It would take time for the residual heat of the sun to wear off, then there would be the reduced interaction with the mantel and radioactive heating produced from below.

We would freeze, but it would take an unspecified amount of time since we don't know the full extent of mantel based heat production.

Instant? nothing known would do that.

Well, that and it would take a fair amount of time just for the residual heat in the atmosphere to bleed into space. It's not like the night-side of the planet freezes into instant oblivion everyday. (Unless that's what you meant by "residual heat of the sun. I took it to mean the mass of the sun itself would take time to wear off. Effectively what'll happen to our sun in a few billion years after it ends the Red Giant phase and becomes a white-dwarf. A white-hot rock that'll remain white-hot billions more years for the residual heat of the sun's life-cycle to radiate into space and heat doesn't radiate away too quickly in a vacuum.

As you say, there's nothing that can happen to the sun that'd have instant impact on Earth. Hell, nothing in the universe can have an instant impact on us.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Where is Dryson when we need him?

 

[Arrrrgggh]

As you say, there's nothing that can happen to the sun that'd have instant impact on Earth. Hell, nothing in the universe can have an instant impact on us.

I'm pretty sure if it were to go nova (artificially or otherwise), the impact would be pretty instantaneous once we were even able to witness it occurring.

 

[The Wormhole]

Otherwise all those crashed Star Destroyers and Super Star Destroyers would have obliterated all life on the planets they crashed into (if not the world itself). Yet they didn't even make so much as a notable crater. It also helps explain why their antigrav technology is so powerful and reliable.

I didn't get the impression those Star Destroyers had crashed. If they had they shouldn't be as intact as they are. It would have to have been a controlled landing. If it had been an actual crash, not only would there be the huge crater you speak of, the Destroyers themselves would only be debris scattered all over the desert.

 

[Turtletrekker]

^Han does refer to Jakku as a "junkyard".