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   POD {Ò¿Ó} wrote:   
   > ...the more it falls apart..   
      
   Except it doesn't take much imagination to counter a lot of this...   
      
   > The Death Star - Why build a full planet space station?  Why would you   
   > need it that big?   
      
   Well it was the size of a moon not a planet, but presumably the idea was   
   that the amount of power required to destroy a planet required an enormous   
   weapon (no sniggering from the peanut gallery).   
      
   > How many planets now have no metal reserves?   
      
   And the Empire care about that because?...   
      
   > Also   
   > from the very end of EPIII you see it getting built, some of those   
   > structural girders must be a mile wide, how did they bend them?   
      
   Presumably they would be assembled rather than single piece. Or they have a   
   squadron of Benders.   
      
   > Also,   
   > when you have a station that big, surely you'd have more than 6   
   > fighter ships to go and wipe out the attacking rebels?   
      
   Wasn't it still under construction or something, not fully operational? That   
   and the limited effects budget, hence Lucas's revisit.   
      
   > So why not   
   > just take an existing moon and build the weapon into it?   
      
   Enormous amounts of excavation would still be required, and the resulting   
   shell may not have had the strength of a purpose built structure.   
      
   > And also,   
   > what makes it move?   
      
   Whatever futuristic drive system that they'd dreamed up...   
      
   > And if they are not set-up for attacks by single   
   > manned fighters, why does that trench have guns lining it every 50   
   > meters?   
      
   Ah, well now you're probably coming into the realms of artistic license,   
   unless the guns were used for all round defence.   
      
   > and if you want to send a torpedo down a tube that goes   
   > straight down, why would you fly down a trench that pins you in with   
   > guns and gets you picked off by tie fighters, when all you need to do   
   > is fly straight at it from above and shoot right down the hole   
      
   Lots of defence around the hole on the surface of the death star, rather   
   than within the trench?   
      
   > and   
   > why is it that after the first run that causes massive explosions as   
   > it "packs in on the surface", do we see it pristine and brand   
   > spanking new when Luke shoots it, with his magic direction changing   
   > torpedoes?   
      
   Not enough of a SW geek to remember it.   
      
   >  if inside, it is all laid out in decks, then why does the   
   > surface have buildings on it that makes it look as if gravity would   
   > cause it to have people walking right around the surface? Which one   
   > is it? Also, what did it take to build the first one? 18 years?, now   
   > come the second one was 75% built after 6 years?   
      
   Ditto on the SW geek comment.   
      
   > TIE fighters - who on earth designs a ship that has wings that block   
   > out all but about 50 degree vision?, Even Darth Vader's, 5 little   
   > slits of glass in the roof, get an enemy fighter behind you, you're   
   > screwed, just look how the Falcon sat right on top of them and blew   
   > them away.  How do these people stay in charge of an Empire with such   
   > rubbish ship building skills?   
      
   I imagine in space, with the distances involved, that vision is less   
   important, and more so other forms of detection/tracking. Heck, look at   
   fighter planes.   
      
   > On top of that your pilots and your troops all wear helmets that must   
   > rob them of 90% if their peripheral vision.   
      
   Fashion statement.   
      
   > The galaxy's greatest Bounty hunter wears a helmet where all he can   
   > see is out of a Perspex "T", so even a blind Han Solo can come up   
   > behind him and whack him with a stick, if he's the best, god help the   
   > rest!   
      
   More fashion statements.   
      
   > Hoth - The rebels had been there long enough to dig out all these   
   > caverns and tunnels, rig light, lots of doors, even a friggin big   
   > generator and lots of gun turrets, but the Space ship engineers in all   
   > that time haven't managed to get the SNOWspeeders flight worthy in the   
   > snow?   
      
   Perhaps they just took delivery? You know what Royal Mail are like.   
      
   > Bespin - They have one function right?  They mine gas...so why do they   
   > have carbon freezing chambers?  What do they need to freeze to   
   > transport at the speed of light?   
      
   SW geek comment again.   
      
   > Jawas - Small little guys right, what do they need something the size   
   > of a sandcrawler for?  The bottom holds the droids, and the control   
   > bridge is 500 feet up at the top, what the hell is going on with all   
   > that space, and what looks like a crew of 10??   
      
   Surely they need lots of storage space, and the crawler wasn't 500 feet   
   high.   
      
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