A Grand Moff Tarkin Question...
01-25-05 | 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by cygnet74
i think the disparity arises with the time span between seeing the plans in AOTC and a completed death star over 20 years later in ANH. then, it took a mere 3.5 years to get a death star (incomplete) in ROTJ that's more than twice a big as the original, if not bigger? the question then becomes, why would the emperor wait so long to build it if not because it took that long to build?
01-25-05 | 10:42 PM
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Originally Posted by cygnet74
well wait, then why does it take over 20 years between AOTC and ANH? from ANH's dialogue, the station is only recently completed.
01-26-05 | 12:51 AM
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I would think the reason why it took so long was that the was no man power available for the Emperor to start building the first one.
The Empire is mostly military. In AOTC, the Republic doesn't have a standing army (until Palpatine gets the Senate to approve of one). I would figure it would take a few years for the army of the republic to grow so large that the Emperor could divert the man power to start construction. They had to keep it secret, which meant putting the construction outside a planet that didn't get a lot of space traffic and having people that Palpatine trusted. It also was a government project, so I figure there would be revisions to the original design along the way which means they need time to research.
It's one thing to have plans to do something, it is another to be able to implement those plans.
The Empire is mostly military. In AOTC, the Republic doesn't have a standing army (until Palpatine gets the Senate to approve of one). I would figure it would take a few years for the army of the republic to grow so large that the Emperor could divert the man power to start construction. They had to keep it secret, which meant putting the construction outside a planet that didn't get a lot of space traffic and having people that Palpatine trusted. It also was a government project, so I figure there would be revisions to the original design along the way which means they need time to research.
It's one thing to have plans to do something, it is another to be able to implement those plans.
01-26-05 | 02:13 PM
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"We're talking about whether any independent contractors working on the uncompleted death star were innocent victims when the rebels destroyed it. "
