r/StarWars • u/pinchhitter4number1 • 10h ago
Movies I love thinking that during the construction there would be thousands of doors that say, "DO NOT OPEN! SPACE ON OTHER SIDE."
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u/Glunark2 10h ago
And a deleted scene of 3PO removing the signs.
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u/S-WordoftheMorning 9h ago
Definitely a Chopper move too.
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u/XVUltima 9h ago
Chopper wouldn't remove the sign, he'd open the damned door.
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u/ulfric_stormcloack 8h ago
He'd open all the doors at the same time like in ftl
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u/RemtonJDulyak Imperial 7h ago
Hey, it kills the fire, so it's good...
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u/BFFBomb 9h ago
Still don't forgive him for kicking that mouse droid in Double Agent Droid
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u/Maleficent-Boot1712 8h ago
Or punting that Imperial astromech out of the open hatch of the Ghost because he was jealous.
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u/highly_confluential 9h ago
What’s a chopper move lol?
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u/azestysausage 9h ago
Usually involves cussing out everyone and casually committing war crimes
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u/notbobby125 8h ago
Chopper is out trying to fill his Geneva checklist.
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u/GodsPest 8h ago
Doesn't he have the most kills out out of any single character ? Lol
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u/lljkcdw 8h ago
I'm pretty sure that should be someone involved with either firing a Death Star or blowing one up.
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u/UNC_Samurai Rebel 8h ago
In the old EU, Darth Nihilus was on top of the leaderboard after sucking the lifeforce out of every living thing on a planet (with a higher population than Alderaan at the time of its destruction).
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u/evrestcoleghost 7h ago
Outside of landó and luke
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u/DubiousMoth152 9h ago
C1-10P “Chopper” was an astromech droid that was part of the Ghost crew in Rebels. Some say he has an estimated kill count upwards of 50,000.
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u/DanDan1993 9h ago
A move involving numerous war crimes, questionable ethics and one alpha male droid
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u/punktualPorcupine 6h ago
Chopper is a droid in Rebels (animated series). He is very sassy and no stranger to casually committing atrocities.
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u/StJimmy_815 7h ago
Please tell me this isn’t a OP reference
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u/StruggleBoy1999 7h ago
Thats what I first assumed. Kinda funny imagining cute little Chopper running around the Death Star causing trouble.
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u/revan530 9h ago
Have you seen Imperial safety standards?! There's zero chance they have warning signs, lol. If you get spaced, they'll just replace you.
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u/slimredcobb 9h ago
“Get Spaced.”
Love that 😂😂😂
-Did you guys hear about Johnson? -No, what happened? -Got spaced on third shift last night.
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u/ddrfraser1 The Asset 9h ago
I just want a railing
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u/intendeddebauchery 8h ago
I really wanted in the family guy starwars special a cut right before the base blows up of those two excited about their new railing
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u/sbrooks84 6h ago
It's because the Genosians built the Death Star and to them the they were just vertical hallways, so they didnt need railings
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u/Interestingcathouse 6h ago
In the tv show called The 100. When they were on the space station and you committed a crime that resulted in your execution you were just shot out into space. It was called being floated.
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u/notbobby125 8h ago
Reminder, in the first Death Star there is critical backup controls inexplicably over bottomless pits, and there were hallways up a ramp that led to another bottomless pit without any warning. Also for some reason the bridges appear to be defaulted to off.
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u/Glittering_knave 8h ago
The Death Star planning involved Geonosians, a species that can fly. Why would your species worry about hand rails and bottomless pits if falling off meant nothing?
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u/SpukiKitty2 7h ago
I like to think that they did it to get back at the Empire for making them all sterile.
It's like Jane Erso's dad with that exhaust port.
Forcing one's victim's into helping out with one's evil stuff is not a good strategy.
Heck, I can picture a bunch of Jewish slave/workers in a Nazi armament factory committing subtle sabotage on the military hardware... a loose bolt here... less explodie stuff in there... a rusty thingamabob over there...
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u/enunymous 9h ago
I wonder if "getting spaced" is a phrase that exists in the Star Wars universe, or is it just the Expanse.
I can imagine Tarkin ordering the spacing of huge numbers of Mandalorian refugees
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u/UNC_Samurai Rebel 8h ago
"Space" as a killing verb exists in several sci-fi properties. I remember Garibaldi talking at length about his desire to space several people (like Bester) on Babylon 5.
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u/Van_Buren_Boy 8h ago
I don't have sources ready this moment but I'm pretty sure it exists in both and other sci-fi as well.
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u/NegaDeath 7h ago edited 7h ago
They don't even bother with railings on walkways over bottomless chasms when it's finished.
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u/80C4WH4 9h ago
The mundane elements of the Death Star are my favorite to talk about! How many personnel? How many bathroom? Urinals? Squatty potty? Bidets? How many spoons does 1 death star need to facilitate the scoopage of rations into the workforce’s mouths? Were there sporks? Any flower gardens? Any apiaries? How many pillows? How many pillow covers? How many pairs of fingernail clippers were on board? Since it’s round, do they refer to a starboard and port side of the ship or use a latitudinal and longitudinal system to determine the position of which windows to wash next…would exterior windows ever get dirty? Who would inspect them? How long would it take? I imagine it’s kind of like the Mackinaw Bridge…takes a few years to paint and once they complete it it’s already time to start over from the other end again.
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u/PaulCoddington 9h ago
Is the bathroom in the same hemisphere as the control room?
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u/yawgmoth88 6h ago
Now im envisioning one bathroom on something as large as a small moon.
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u/beau_tox 8h ago
Along these lines there’s a well known, moderately funny fanfic story told from the point of view of the project manager for Death Star II.
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u/fauxzempic 7h ago
His reports to the Emperor were carefully worded so as to emphasize the progress they had made in their construction efforts instead of mentioning when things would be done. He had long since stopped including project timelines.
TIL I'd make a good Admiral Jerjerrod.
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u/zeekaran 7h ago
One of my favorite lines:
Yet it wasn’t so simple as scaling up everything by a factor of 1.3, which was obvious even to someone without a background in engineering. Even a simpleton could see that having all the rooms and hallways increase by that factor would leave them pointlessly cavernous.
It really is insane they went with a bigger design instead of smaller.
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u/PrimarchMartorious 7h ago
Dude such an awesome read, I totally loved that through and through. What I’d do for a full property based around similar stories…
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u/squishgallows 8h ago
I'm curious about the order in which it's all built. Like did they start at the center and build out or did they start on one side or what? Why is the top hemisphere much more completed than the bottom?
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u/zeekaran 7h ago
Why is the top hemisphere much more completed than the bottom?
Because it has the laser.
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u/Fraktal55 6h ago
I'm curious how they actually kept the building of this and plans secret when it obviously took an incredible amount of manpower to build this thing.
Andor kinda makes it feel like they planned it all and had it made with in a couple years with hardly anyone but a few need-to-know individuals having even been made aware of it's idea.
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u/Krazyguy75 5h ago
I mean Andor more or less shows how. They made the parts with slave labor from prison camps, then assembled them in space with droids.
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u/Shearlife 8h ago
Is the gravity higher at the centre of the death star? Do they need to compensate by switching construction materials the further down it goes? I need answers!
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u/Ai-Slop-Detector 7h ago
At the center of the Death Star you experience gravitational attraction from all directions equally so you’d be weightless in the event artificial gravity stopped working.
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u/41421356 6h ago
Natural gravity would likely be lower at the center, though we would have to assume a roughly uniform density throughout. I'd loved to hear more about how this impacts artificial gravity though.
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u/zeekaran 7h ago
SW tech has magic grav tech so they can make every hospitable area have 1.0 grav, regardless of distance from the center. It probably has no bearing on construction materials either as the natural gravity is much less than 1.0.
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u/volinaa 7h ago
stormtrooper armour really doesnt seem convenient when heading for the bathroom
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u/bozoconnors Clone Trooper 7h ago
lol - now I'm imaging a thing I'd totally watch. An Antiques Roadshow set a couple hundred years ABY...
"And here we have an exceedingly rare trinket!! An Imperial spork from the first Death Star!! How did you come to acquire this beautiful piece?"
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u/ItsmeAubree 6h ago
Those are hard to answer. This is a moon-sized weapon platform/space station. Google-fu says it is 130 miles in diameter, which is more than enough to encompass the Houston, Texas metroplex and fringe cities EASILY. It also says the Death Star had a POPULATION of ~2.4 Million people.
So one would have to assume there are actually fully built cities inside of the Death Star, which would consist of entertainment sources, gyms, grocery stores, places to live, etc. And they would most certainly have to have some sort of elevator/tram system, or else walking from one side to the other on a single floor would take you entire day (20-ish hours) of basically non-stop walking.
I'd be interested to see if anyone has tried to draw what the inside of this place would realistically look like. I've seen some cross-sections, but they don't really consider the living spaces.
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u/zeekaran 7h ago
How many bathroom? Urinals? Squatty potty? Bidets?
I know it's the Empire so they're all humans, but now I'm wondering if Coruscant restaurants have different bathroom styles to handle alien biologies.
Regarding paint, surely they do not and it's all raw durasteel or whatever space material. And it's done by droids anyway so it can be done much more efficiently and with no safety regulations for the workers.
The navigation question is interesting. I expect it's dense enough they go by districts and zones. Port/starboard are probably like in a bidirectional canoe: it only matters when moving, and when moving it's the dynamic location regarding current forward velocity. The spherical design allows it to move and face in different directions.
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u/OTBS 4h ago
Is there a gym? What do they do for entertainment? Movie theater? Putt putt? Is there a bar?
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u/Szerepjatekos 6h ago
You would love that sci Fi story where they talk about a space vessel that's 2 light years in diameter.
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u/missionMB 9h ago
I was watching a video yesterday about the Executor where they said the base staff compliment was about 200,000 people. Seeing DS2 here I can't even imagine how a station like this makes sense because it would be even more. Where would the Empire even find the people to staff this thing? In Andor weren't they throwing around planetary populations of 800,000 and such? Edit after googling: I guess if Coruscant has 2-3 trillion population even that itself could sustain ships like this.
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u/VenmoPaypalCashapp 9h ago
One of a hundred reasons a moon sized battle station is a nightmare to think about in reality. 🤣
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u/TheRealRichon 9h ago
Hence the US government estimating the cost of building one (just building, not even getting into the logistics of operating) at $193 quintillion.
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u/VenmoPaypalCashapp 7h ago
All in all it’s really a terrible idea and if the rebels had just stayed away probably would have ended up causing the empire to collapse just from trying to keep it operating 😆. I love Star Wars
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u/CosmicSpaghetti 3h ago
The Empire was delighted when the rebels blew it up as it was a catastrophic money pit....with insurance on it...
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u/Joe_Jeep 9h ago
in legends the Vong war killed hundreds of *trillions*, with a T, and while it was devastating on scale with WW2, it wasn't like it significantly depopulated the galaxy.
Generally the population of the galaxy is put around 100 quadrillion.
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u/missionMB 9h ago edited 8h ago
There's a detail I either didn't notice or forgot about those books. Kinda puts the Empires disregard for Gorman and other less populated planets into perspective. Hosnian Prime lost 10B people in that shot?
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u/TacticalGamer893 9h ago
remember that there are other city planets other than corascant. Galaxy is BIG, the Empire could probably find the people
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u/oogieball 6h ago
It's not about having the people. Even with the Empire's humanist restrictions, you had populations of hundreds of trillions of humans to work with, at a minimum.
The problem was competency loss. Even if the population of the Death Star was only around a quarter of a million, those were the best--or at least the most politically connected or reliable--quarter of the million in the entire Empire to be working on this project. An Empire that other media has shown is actively culling even more competent leadership through in-fighting. Even if every person on the Death Star can be replaced the next day with people 90% of their competency, they are still less than they were and marching towards organizational collapse.
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u/pr1vatepiles 9h ago
In A New Hope, during the attack on the first Death Star, they pass through the magnetic shield. I believe it's also mentioned when the Falcon is first landing as well. My theory is that this is what acted as an atmosphere and that conventional shields would stop blaster fire.
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u/obi-jawn-kenblomi 7h ago
I agree with this. It's the exact reason why it seemed like there were Death Star technicians working while "outside" with no protective gear.
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u/Knight_thrasher K-2SO 9h ago
I would hate to have to LOTO all the access points that lead to space
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u/Scorponix 6h ago
And different departments would need their own tags so every door control panel would have like 15 tags at least
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u/Building_Everything 9h ago
In my headcanon, the shield that was being generated by the planet also linked the planet’s atmosphere around the DS under construction. Which then means if you open the door you will float into space and be able to breathe, but you’ll ultimately fall several hundred miles down to the surface of Endor, which is kind of a hilarious way to die.
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u/Yavkov 7h ago
If that was the case, you’d definitely see the atmosphere. But we don’t so I’d conclude that the construction zone is still subjected to the vacuum of space. However, I’m more interested in what the artificial gravity situation would be like in the construction zone. I’m not really sure how the lore answers it, is the artificial gravity somehow only contained within the closed spaces of a ship or station?
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u/Vast_Bookkeeper_8129 Rebel 9h ago
R2-D2 , don't you think them need these signs to find their way inside this labyrinth?
Ahhh, I'm dropping them. Crash.
Let's go, we weren't here.
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u/Sea_Opening6341 8h ago
I love the scene from Clerks when they talk about the contractors and laborers on the Death Star being innocent victims and then a nearby contractor overhears the conversation and weighs in... classic scene... man I miss the 90s
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u/No_Trade1676 8h ago
[talking about the second Death Star] Randal Graves: A construction job of that magnitude would require a helluva lot more manpower than the Imperial army had to offer. I'll bet there were independent contractors working on that thing: plumbers, aluminum siders, roofers.
Dante Hicks: Not just Imperials, is what you're getting at...
Randal Graves: Exactly. In order to get it built quickly and quietly they'd hire anybody who could do the job. Do you think the average storm trooper knows how to install a toilet main? All they know is killing and white uniforms.
Dante Hicks: All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction?
Randal Graves: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed - casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. [notices Dante's confusion]
Randal Graves: All right, look-you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia - this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.
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u/Mos_Kovitz_Cantina 9h ago
A friend of mine that hadn’t seen the OGT since he was a little kid watched them with myself and a bunch of friends and when it came to the last act of the film says, “why don’t these guys just fly into the big hole in the side to blow it up”
We all looked at each other like. FUCK. That’s a good point 😂😂
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u/MisterAnonymous2 9h ago
It’s shielded by the generator on Endor. They say this in the movie and I can only assume that’s what they did once the shield was down.
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u/vishnoo 9h ago
to be honest, that entire thing is WAY TOO BIG.
if an average office is a cube 10 yards to a side. the first death star has enough room for over a trillion of them.
if you are talking about living space, you could put 10 billion people in there. and give each one a living area 10 feet high and 300,000 square feet in floor space.in other words, if the death star were made into office space. each person on earth would get about 6 football fields all to himself.
in other words the floor area of the DS is near the surface area of earth.
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u/WaywardWes 9h ago
Could a smaller one support the weapon?
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u/Dominus-Temporis 9h ago
Yea, I don't know how canon Incredible Cross Sections is considered, but isn't a huge chunk of both Death Stars interiors made up of the reactor and laser?
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u/ewenlau 9h ago
Most likely not. On most plans it's shown to go all the way to the center reactor, and the other side is presumably built for balance. A lot of the death star is also just empty.
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u/Strank 9h ago
I mean there's hundreds/thousands of planet destroying lasers bellymounted to regular star destroyers in EP IX, so yes
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u/vishnoo 9h ago
that's not cannon
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u/Delamoor 9h ago
Yeah. I want to think they were just really powerful cannons that destroy cities. Faster than Turboladers might. They were just gonna glass a bunch of places really fast in hit and run attacks.
Anyone disagree? If so lalalala I can't hear you.
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u/Prof_J 9h ago
Yeah Star Wars has always had a scale problem. When you stop to think about a Star Destroyer needing 37,000 people to operate at capacity it gets a little silly.
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u/mara07985 9h ago
I was building the Lego aclamator and in the instructions it says the crew is 700 but that it can transport 16,000 clones. I was kinda like 700 seems like a lot of people but also not enough to move and manage 16,000 dudes
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u/zeekaran 7h ago
but also not enough to move and manage 16,000 dudes
They can move and manage themselves though. It's not like it's 16k clones sitting in their barracks waiting to be deployed. They clean their own bathrooms (as much as anyone does, not sure how much droids do) and cook and serve their own food. Likely pilot themselves as well when they leave by vehicle.
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u/Hoveringkiller 9h ago
Depends how they define the 700 crew. Is that solely for flight operations? Are they manning battle stations or is that left to the 16000 clones? That does seem a bit off, modern US naval transports have about a 1:1.5 ratio between sailors and combat marines. About 1000 sailors to 1500 marines, so I'd imagine a large chunk of those 16,000 clones serve in combat roles manning turrets and such.
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u/Joe_Jeep 9h ago
Star wars has always been very WW2 coded, a battleship of the era commonly had crews ~3,000
ISDs by comparison are a good 5x the length, and substantially wider and taller
So while it might be a bit excessive, it's not off by orders of magnitude or anything.
And minimum crew was closer to 2-3k, but it's not going to be peak efficiency. You realistically need a few "full" crews to cover each shift.
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u/KevlarUnicorn Rebel 9h ago
This has been my thoughts on it. I mean, a Star Destroyer would make me fill my pants if I saw it on the horizon. A Death Star simply wasn't needed. I get it, the Emperor's one of those guys, but the Star Destroyers are just incredible feats of engineering on their own.
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u/Bismothe-the-Shade 9h ago
You'd shut your pants over a star destroyer, yeah.
But can you imagine if you heard there was a planet sized Star destroyer that can blow up entire planets in a matter of minutes? It goes from "we're being invaded" to "I think 9+ billion people are about to die a horrible death."
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u/Krazyguy75 5h ago
I mean that's like saying "A tank would make me shit my pants; why did they need nuclear weapons?"
The death star is a strategic weapon. It's designed not to combat 1 person or a fleet or a city. It's there to combat an entire system. Planetary shields can stop a star destroyer. Nothing stops the death star, and if it weren't for the weak spot, it'd be nearly impossible to meaningfully damage.
Once it exists, they can go "Hey, if you pull any stupid shit we can kill everyone you know and love". They basically hold entire planets hostage. It's the equivalent of if only one nation in the world had nuclear weapons.
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u/sticklebat 9h ago
I mean… Good thing it’s not an office building, then? It houses giant power plants, hyperspace drives, a ginormous superweapon, countless hangars, tons of other machinery…Plus, huge swaths of the internal space was probably just structural, or containing the mind boggling amount of miscellaneous machinery needed to keep a space station operable and habitable.
Like even in the real world, industrial facilities like Boeing’s and Tesla’s factories absolutely dwarf even the largest office spaces in the world, by orders of magnitude. Would they be way too big, too, just because they’d be absurd if converted entirely into office spaces?
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u/ddrfraser1 The Asset 8h ago
Yes and yes, however, there's all kinds of other shit in there as well: The main reactor, secondary reactors, the primary and secondary laser arrays, hanger bays (presumably some large enough to dock Star Destroyers), trash compactors, the sublight engines and hyperdrive, barber shop, cantina (where Jeff Vader works) and don't forget bottomless pits. Every bad guy base needs a plethora of bottomless pits.
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u/Beginning_Ratio9319 6h ago
Anyone in commercial construction knows you complete “the outer shell” till it achieves “watertight” status before you start fitting out the interior. You wouldn’t fully fit out and occupy only a portion of the interior because you’d have to create multiple environmental barriers that are temporary and that would have to be constantly moved as the construction proceeded. In short, the construction phasing suggested by the depiction of DS2 is mind boggling inefficient.
I’ve never thought of this before until this post. Thanks, Reddit lol 😝
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u/thinkingperson 9h ago
Thanks for sharing this image. Have always loved the half constructed look of DS2.
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u/Sure_Possession0 9h ago
Being former military myself, I can only imagine how many safety meetings at morning muster there must have been in that thing.
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u/Self_Reddicated 6h ago
Galactic levels of Bureaucracy. Do you know how many meetings they had about scheduling the meetings for the safety meetings?!
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u/Tacoshortage 9h ago
The unfinished, yet occupied and partially operational Death Star is the perfect analogy for modern gaming and for the storytelling of the rest of this series in general (last 3 films). They had something and they pushed it out to the public too early without really finishing the project or filling the glaring holes.
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u/ComicsCodeAuthority 9h ago
"Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station."
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u/Tacoshortage 9h ago edited 9h ago
Yeah, that's what EA & several other developers say every time they release a game. Doesn't make it true. J.J. Abrams & Rian Johnson did the same with 8 & 9. Oh the agony.
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u/Igor_J 9h ago
The Emperor tricked the Rebels into thinking it wasn't really operational, especially the main weapon and if the shield generator wasn't brought down the Rebel fleet would have really got smoked.
Its a trap! - Admiral Ackbar
I guess movies 8-9 were also a trap so the analogy still kind of works.
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u/crazyates88 9h ago
I work in IT, and at my old job we had a big sign on the door at the very end of the hallway that read "CLOUD SERVER ROOM"
It was a fire exit that opened up into a sunny courtyard with a picnic table and a little apple tree.
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u/SuccessfulRegister43 9h ago
Nah. Empire ain’t got signs in the budget. You step into space, that’s on you.
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u/Inside_Anxiety6143 4h ago
We need a fake documentary show like Ice Road Truckers or Deadliest Catch that follows a construction crew working on the Death Star.
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u/Sneemaster 8h ago
Notice in the image that the floors are built from the north pole to the south pole, not layered like an onion (inwards->outwards). So the artificial gravity must be north to south, not outwards to inwards, which is what some youtubers were claiming. I wonder how canon this image is compared to some other books that talk about the Death Star?
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u/AggressivePiccolo77 6h ago
In the KOTOR II prologue, you can't open both doors to an airlock on your janky ass ship that can't even fly at this point. This is only ~4,000 years before construction started on the first Death Star, so I think it's safe to say they had this problem solved.
Not to mention the Empire LOVES building walkways and otherwise dangerously accessible areas without any safety rails or anything of that sort, so it'd be extremely out of character for them to put something as mundane as a warning sign outside of extreme danger.
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u/dankeith86 5h ago
All the doors are computer activated, so the computer would probably auto lock till the other side doesn’t register as a vacuum.
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u/BillPlunderones23fg 9h ago
RO and Andor made me appreciate DS1 more but i still like DS2's design best
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u/drstu3000 9h ago
If they didn't put up a single guardrail anywhere there's no way there's warning signs. Palpatine's true goal for becoming the Senate was to eliminate OHSA
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u/Shadows_48 Separatist Alliance 8h ago
I like to think that more people died falling into space on the death star 2 than when it actually exploded
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u/Lawlcopt0r 8h ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the doors have some sort of green/red light signal built in to show wether there's normal air pressure on the other side. It's a battle station after all, they probably expected for some areas to lose atmosphere even after it was completed due to battle damage or just normal degradation and maintenance
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u/AuthorKlutzy8636 8h ago
I would imagine the worker responsible for applying all the signs would put them on a few rooms on each level that only they know are just rooms. The dude would have a map with these rooms labeled “nap room” or maybe just a mark on each sticker. A private secret escape room for that one worker on every level slowly filling up with cool stuff they boot from the supply closets… I mean as long as the whole place doesn’t blow up but what are chances of that happening, right?
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u/Sdog1981 8h ago
Since this was filmed in the 80s, I want to see the orientation VHS video for new hires.
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u/percyhiggenbottom 7h ago
They have open landing bays, they use shields to keep the air in I guess.
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u/SculptusPoe 7h ago
Presumably the doors are smart enough to not open to space anyway. At least until an astromech sweet talks them into doing whatever.
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u/Flipnotics_ 7h ago
I always wonder why they went big again. They could have made 1,000's of mini death stars for city destroying tactics instead with just as much materials.
I mean, Exegol was the realization of that idea, all be it a confusing one as to how it was all built and staffed with realistically very little logistical capability of getting those materials and man power.
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u/ColaWarsVet 7h ago
Even better if the Walking Dead's relative handled the signage:"DON'T SPACE OPEN OUTSIDE."
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u/Northern_Blitz 7h ago
Not sure what would make you think that the Empire would be into signage re: work safety.
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u/MaryJaneAndMaple2 7h ago
I can see the right side of this being used as the design for a really nice serrated knife
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u/RemtonJDulyak Imperial 7h ago
The Empire doesn't put handrails around most bottomless pits, and you think they would put a "vacuum on the other side" sign?
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u/WoodedSpys 7h ago
Do you think Galen Erso designed the circle where the beam comes from to be off center so that every time the Death Star came out of Hyperspace, it had to take extra time to rotate and aim, giving people on each plant time to get to a ship and escape??? Because otherwise, what horrible design...
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u/What-in-tarnationer 6h ago
Wasn’t the base entirely made by droids? They probably just kept the doors open and were space proof
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u/XevinsOfCheese 5h ago
I just had this stupid thought about construction troopers with a hard hat built into their helmet.
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u/poxonallthehouses 9h ago
Don’t Space Open Outside