Endor Landing Platform makes no sense


Who approved this?

"Oh, your design is a tiny, unprotected, unimaginative, rectangular slab of concrete in the middle of a valley and tall trees? Brilliant, give this guy the job immediately!"

What?

Modern airports usually exist in large, stable, flat areas of land, that have been cleared of obstacles, trees, and other things an aircraft could bump into. They have buildings, terminals, towers, all kinds of lights, including flashing ones for the higher buildings. The passengers are protected from the elements by attachable hallways that lead from the plane to the building.

Let's look at the madness of this 'design' (such as it is):

- This concrete slab has no protection from the elements. Passengers can't stay dry if it's raining and they get out of the spaceship. Nothing connects to anything. How do they even get down? There's not even a tiny terminal-type box that would contain an elevator or something. You don't even get a tiny roof over your head WHILE you are going down, so you'll be in the rain for the whole duration.

This design is idiotic.

- How about massive winds that could blow off smaller craft? Not to mention how scary would it be when your craft lands near the edge, then you have to run in the rainy wind, maybe slipping and rolling off the edge - there are NO RAILINGS or anything to prevent a spacecraft, passenger or whatnot from sliding off and falling to their destruction/death! WHO designs anything this stupidly? Even the flimsiest stairs have some kind of railing in the real world usually. But not this STUPIDLY dangerous slab of concrete!

- No hangar for spaceships. Granted, on a small moon like Endor, the traffic volume is probably relatively low, but you'd still want your spacecraft to be somewhere protected from the elements, from being stolen, from falling off a wet concrete surface with no protection, etc.!

If you look at any normal airport, you will see that a passenger can arrive in a taxi, walk straight into the protected terminal building, then walk into the airplane without getting even one rain drop on them. How do you accomplish the same with this platform thing?

Not only is the architecture the most basic rectangular shape (FOR REASONS? SCI-FI movies are supposed to provoke our IMAGINATION, and they give us the most boring shape there is?!), its edges are sharp, so you make a small mistake and bump into the edge, you're DEAD. This can't happen with regular airports.

- This thing is WAY high, so falling is always a danger, and yet there's no railing, no guide pathways, no protection of any kind, not even safety nets!

- At the same time, it's not high enough - what I mean is, it's surrounded by TALL TREES, limiting your approach vectors considerably! Why would you let this kind of obstacles SURROUND your landing platform? Isn't landing challenging enough on a steady, stable, flat surface, do you really need to make it be surrounded by tall trees - not to mention the massive satellite dish you could easily also bump into?

When they create an airport, they CLEAR The flat area so pilots don't have to worry about bumping into nearby trees and satellite dishes, but this friggin' thing is surrounded by everything imaginable.

Anyone that has time, energy and power to create that kind of lunatic platform thing, surely would have time to CUT/UPROOT SOME DAMN TREES. Why are the trees allowed to surround things?

Not only that, but this platform is positioned in a VALLEY, which makes things worse. There are high hills and trees everywhere, and no stable, flat area whatsoever. It's basically put in the worst place possible, and somehow this is good enough? WHAT?! This is a SCI-FI movie, things should be BETTER than they are for us!

What's wrong with an airportlike landing platform / space port that mimics our current, perfectly designed and functional airports? A pilot landing on a normal airport doesn't have to worry about falling off the edge, bumping into the platform, bumping into trees or dishes, or having to walk in a rainstorm and possibly being blown off to his death by a strong wind!

I mean, storm winds can blow away cars, what chance does any passenger, even Jabba the Hutt have on this elevated concrete slab with NO SAFETY FEATURES WHATSOEVER? At least give us a railing, give us some kind of better shape, some guiding pathways, some kind of roof to protect us from the rain, some kind of wind nullifier, safety net, heck, even some kind of airplane hallway apparatus that attaches to the spacecraft.. it's not beyond imagination when we have already those things in real life!

I could go on, but the madness and lack of imagination of this ridiculous design should be pretty evident by now. None of this makes any sense! I would definitely not want to arrive or depart the moon if I have to use THAT platform to do it!

Would you? A light rain shower and tiny wind could be the scaries thing you imagine walking to your spacecraft.

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What if there is a bit more traffic? Imagine approaching this thing and there's already a spacecraft on the platform. Where does that go? There IS nowhere to go!

On a normal airport, airplanes can taxi into all kinds of places to get away from an approaching airplane, they can roll into hangar or terminal or whatever. This platform has limited space, and who wants to be or park their craft on the edge of this tall structure anyway? This design makes NO SENSE from any point of view I can muster!

Why couldn't they look at a normal airport and copy that and then expand it into a SCI-FI-version of that? Instead, they create this ludicrous, impractical, dangerous toy platform that's elevated for WHAT REASON, when it's in a valley, surrounded by really tall trees, hills and that massive dish?

Wouldn't it be a better option to just find the most elevated ground, then clear it of all obstacles, make it flat and then create hangars, terminals and other stuff so your craft can't at least fall off, and passengers can get in without being blown off or being rained upon? Where spacecraft could taxii into multiple different locations to keep the actual runway / landing area clear?

What about spacecraft that DO need a bit of runway, how are they going to take off or land? Even if those are non-existent, it would be a safety concern just in case there's an emergency and the craft can't stop in time, etc., to have some kind of longer, actual runway system.

Then there's the whole 'WHY bring weight considerations when you don't have to'-issue. An ordinary airport doesn't have to care how much some plane weighs, because GROUND can take all kinds of weight - heck, it can take mountains without crumbling, let alone some heavy building projects, let alone some aircraft or even spacecraft.

But this platform absolutely can't take as much weight as ground can. It can take considerably less. So there has to be a WEIGHT LIMITATION, that EVERYONE MUST KNOW before even approaching Endor.

This is a cumbersome, bureaucratic thing added for NO reason whatsoever, except that we rather use this impractical slab of cement than actual, proper, ground-based spaceport.

Then there could be someone that didn't get the memo, trying to land here, and CRASH, everything becomes a huge forest fire, goodbye, landing platform.

In ANY case, all it takes is a drunken teenager stealing their dad's spaceship and miscalculating the distances and whatnot. It only takes ONE unruly wild card that breaks the rules, and the platform is either seriously damaged or completely destroyed, together with any other craft that had to be on the platform because there's NO HANGAR for them.

Seriously, there are SO many bad points about this thing, including that it only stands on two feet, which is a very weak design, no matter how strong the actual materials used or whatnot. Something that HAS to be sturdy, should be DESIGNED to be as sturdy as possible, so at least have it 'stand' on three or four legs, instead of only two, for crying out loud!

I mean, you can look at this thing, consider the reality of landing on it - I don't care what you use to land on it, all problems are still valid - and it's just a disaster waiting to happen, a myriad of problems manifesting into the stupidest platform I have ever seen.

Who approved this, really? It makes NO SENSE!

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