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Aha! It turns out it could travel at FTL. But that would require a huge amount of power...so if it could generate and sustain that kind of power...how come it took 24 hours to power the main weapon for just one shot?
And I wonder what its ultimate purpose really was. I mean, sure they used it to blow up a planet that was actively supporting the terrorists. But once word got out of what happened the rebellion would have dispersed to different planets and systems and had a more loose command structure instead of hiding out on Yavin. So was it built to force planets to get onboard with whatever the Empire wanted? Like they show up and say you give us all your stuff and half your population as slave labor or we'll send the Death Star over to blow your shit up. Seems like just the threat of having it show up tomorrow would be enough and then you've basically got a humongous and expensive paper weight floating around in soace that you never have to use. Seems like an Imperial Cruiser showing up and nuking a planet would get the same results. Plus it would be a helluva lot cheaper and more efficient. Plus you've got like 700,000 people stationed on the Death Star that are basically just sitting around jackin it unless they planned on actually moving the thing from system to system and operating out of it to squash rogue planet governments that don't wanna do what they're told.
And why put the damn thing in harm's way by sending it to Yavin when you could just send some big ass Imperial ships and have them nuke the place? End result is the same - most of the terrorists/rebels wind up deader than hell. Or better yet, why not charge up the weapon then make the jump thru hyperspace and show up at the point they were trying to get to to shoot the damn thing. One second nothing's there and whoosh - the Death Star pops up outta nowhere, shoots its load and boom - no more planet.
And I wonder what its ultimate purpose really was. I mean, sure they used it to blow up a planet that was actively supporting the terrorists. But once word got out of what happened the rebellion would have dispersed to different planets and systems and had a more loose command structure instead of hiding out on Yavin. So was it built to force planets to get onboard with whatever the Empire wanted? Like they show up and say you give us all your stuff and half your population as slave labor or we'll send the Death Star over to blow your shit up. Seems like just the threat of having it show up tomorrow would be enough and then you've basically got a humongous and expensive paper weight floating around in soace that you never have to use. Seems like an Imperial Cruiser showing up and nuking a planet would get the same results. Plus it would be a helluva lot cheaper and more efficient. Plus you've got like 700,000 people stationed on the Death Star that are basically just sitting around jackin it unless they planned on actually moving the thing from system to system and operating out of it to squash rogue planet governments that don't wanna do what they're told.
And why put the damn thing in harm's way by sending it to Yavin when you could just send some big ass Imperial ships and have them nuke the place? End result is the same - most of the terrorists/rebels wind up deader than hell. Or better yet, why not charge up the weapon then make the jump thru hyperspace and show up at the point they were trying to get to to shoot the damn thing. One second nothing's there and whoosh - the Death Star pops up outta nowhere, shoots its load and boom - no more planet.
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