I could be overthinking it but what was the long term plans/purpose of Starkiller Base?
It got its energy from a star… And I’m not a physics professor or anything, but I know that if the sun disappears, all the planets are going to just go whizzing throughout the galaxy on whichever trajectory they were headed when their star disappeared.
Like, did the thing have a hyperdrive? I mean I can’t imagine how you could travel through hyperspace on a planet and stuff. Wouldn’t the rocky crust just get ripped off as the planet travels??
So like was the Starkiller Base like a one-shot-one-kill kinda thing?? I mean they destroyed like five planets at once….
was that it? Was it done????? I mean it didn’t look like like a large scale evacuation was going on after they blew up those planets.
The light beams themselves move at hyperspeed, so you’re firing a laser through hyperspace.
The planet crumbled not because the sun died, but because Han Solo and the Resistance blew up the reactor and it triggered a meltdown in the planet’s core. Its destruction has very little to nothing to do with its star.
Ahhhhh you misread my man.
I’m just asking what was the First Order planning to do with Starkiller Base after they “extinguished” its host star.
If it has no independent way of moving, as soon as they drained the power of the planet’s star, it would quite literally just get flung into space.
Like…. were they only using it once/twice. Or did it have an independent way of maneuvering?
I honestly think they intended to use it as more of a threat to hold over other people once they destroyed the New Republic – much like the Empire had intended to use the Death Star.
But HOW????
How could it be a threat if it couldn’t move under its own power? Like… I’m seriously just wanting to know if it had any means of moving on it’s own, specifically a hyperdrive. Like someone out there has one of those cut-away diagrams or something???
If it didn’t have a hyperdrive the massive undertaking was utterly pointless. Without a star to hold it gravitationally in place, it would just zoom off who knows where. And it’d only be a threat to any systems on its path of trajectory, which it really not at all threatening because if it has no independent means of movement it’d take like 100 years to reach the next closest system.
The thing isn’t a Death Star. It’s a lazer on a planet. Rock gets broken up in hyperspace. This weapon was pointless for the long term.
According to wiki, Pablo twitted an answer to whether the Starkiller base can move and the answer is yes. They said it has boosters on the far side of the planet, but I can’t imagine that being technologically possible/practical since the planet still has plant, earth and stuffs? Unless it can shed it’s organic surface after reaching subspace speed (teleportation makes more sense but I’m not sure SW universe has that?)
I think the Starkiller base designer in Lucasfilm/Disney is as clueless as the First Order scientists who designed it *shrug* The First Order doesn’t look like they plan for the long term.
Mm. Movie Canon has the planet itself moving to targets. Which…doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Novelization has the beams basically ripping tiny streaks through hyperspace. Which sounds like a good way to destroy a hyperspace route for good and like that would be a much more interesting weapon but definitely not as flash.
Either way though, yes, it needs to eat stars and this is a problem.
And I still give myself a headache every time I go “BUT IT HAS TREES”
“AND A HOLLOW CENTER. WHERE GRAVITY IS DEFINITELY WORKING WITH PLANETARY SPIN TO TRY TO COLLAPSE IT. WHAT. AND HOW DO YOU STORE ALL THAT FUCKING STAR HEAT MUCH LESS PULL IT FROM A STAR WITHOUT TOASTING EVERYTHING? IF YOU CAN DO THAT WHY ARE YOU WASTING TIME FIRING A LASER? WEAPONS POTENTIAL RIGHT THERE.”
Honestly?
I’m not a physics professor but absolutely nothing about Starkiller Base makes a lick of sense and it is really fucking scientifically stupid.
And why those ppl on the Hux speech didn’t get incinerated by the fucking sun plasma literally next to them (ok maybe a few hundreds of kilometers away but they should all be toasted into carbon)
Hux isn’t wearing his eclipse goggles because he thought it would ruin his aesthetic.
He’s also probably going to die of skin cancer in Episode Nine because he is literally the palest thing on that base aside from the snow.
The aesthetic of the whole FO is “bigger, cooller, and blown up faster”. Being snow blinded and getting skin cancer because of the Starkiller base is nothing.
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