Irishman26 Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 i'm wondering y Lucas decided 2 show the death star in ep2, in the Essential Chronology, an engineer named Bevel Lemelisk(hired by Tarkin) originally designed the death star at the maw installation approx. 3 yrs be4 ep4. also if palpatine had the plans 4 a death star, how come it took almost 20yrs 2 build the thing. is Lucas contradicting the Expanded Universe or did Lemelisk improve (lol) the death star designs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaster21801 Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 The Essential Guide is considered EU for teh most part... so don't put too much faith into them until Lucas is 100% finished with however many movies he wants to make.... We just have to wait and see what happens with the Death Star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norin Radd Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Originally posted by Irishman26 if palpatine had the plans 4 a death star, how come it took almost 20yrs 2 build the thing. is Lucas contradicting the Expanded Universe or did Lemelisk improve (lol) the death star designs. Well. . .it's a space station the size of a small planet. can you imagine the sheer dynamics of construction? 20 years? The engineers should be commended. As far as the EU, it often comes into conflict with the films so, as I've learned in these forums, it is best to leave the EU in it's own separate universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StealthFox Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Then we have to consider the Death Star II, which was never finished, but a lot of it was completed in a short time. Unless... it was being built during the original's construction as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebelwerfer_ Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Yah, kind of like the movie contact: they made 2 transporters but one was secret. Motto of the empire: "why build 1 when you can have 2 at twice the price". BTW expect to see several more EU contradictions in the real movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vestril Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Except that the second one was bigger and more powerful...it makes little sense for them to be built at around the same time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Well, Palpatine obviously didn't start building it as soon as he got the plans i'm guessing, because he didn't have quite enough power to order such a thing..........but as to the time it would take to build one......i don't think it would take much more than 5 years......if you think about it.....most BIG building projects employ, like 20 people building? And it takes a couple months perhaps for those people to build big ol things.... And then the Empire probably used, like a million people to build it's death star, not counting the building droids they undoubtedly used...so it would be built quicker.....and he could ALSO have the thousands of planets in the empire assigned to build one specific part of the death star....not enough that you could ever guess what it was for.......but enough that it would greatly quicken the build time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xX-Ender-Xx Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 I have faith in Lucas in every movie he makes, i wouldn't wanna have anybody else making SW movies. He hasn't let me down on a movie yet, not even close... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JK_Morovski Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 lets face it, why didnt anyone smell a rat in palapatines behaviour? if you build something called 'The Death Star' you're not after keeping the peace and protecting a democracy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datheus Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Originally posted by Vestril Except that the second one was bigger and more powerful...it makes little sense for them to be built at around the same time... Unless Palpatine knew/foresaw the Rebels destroying the first one, and the first one was smaller...a perfect decoy, but if they were to fail, still powerful enough to be a functioning weapon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vestril Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Originally posted by Datheus Unless Palpatine knew/foresaw the Rebels destroying the first one, and the first one was smaller...a perfect decoy, but if they were to fail, still powerful enough to be a functioning weapon I don't think that that would be an intelligent expediture of resources...I don't really think it accomplished anything either, I mean...what was the point of this decoy?... (sorry, but it serves you right for trying ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 I guess it would act as a decoy too,but at the same time be a terror weapon.Remember, it wasnt used to destroy every planet. it was used to make every planet worry about being hit by the death star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obi Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Dooku dies before he can build it, and there wasnt any blue prints or anything to go with it, just an image, so it might just be the thought of a death star(which palpy knows of, and later actually builds it). NO design or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 Perhaps that thing carried not just the image, but also plans for building the Death Star.......however i highly doubt he would begin construction of it before he became the Emperor, so then nobody could stop him And using the original Death Star as a decoy seems like a really stupid idea...because the alliance probably gained a LOT of support after they blew up the first one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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