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How Come Death Star 2 Was Ready So Quickly?

posted 3 months ago by FootOfDavros (8697)
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When we watch Revenge of the Sith we can see construction under way what must be over 20 years at least before Death Star Classic is finally up and running in ANH.

Discounting the non canon Rogue One and it's stupid idea that they'd just spent twenty odd years building a big round space ship without any idea whether or not they'd get a laser working (!), that means they must have repeated the process in what ? Maybe a year or two for this one...

How could that have even been possible?

What's the explanation for this? Legends and new canon excuses will be acceptable for purposes of discussion...

[–] johnmiller (4011) 3 months ago

"Death Star 2: Electric Boogaloo."

Just building another easy target like the Death Star was stupid as hell. But, Lucas was never big on logic. Little of it makes any sense. Having a powerful shield generator on the moon below was smart, though. A rarity for Lucas.

[–] TheEndIsNigh (509) 2 months ago

It was certainly a stupid idea if you want to keep the audience engaged. In order for the story to work, we need to believe that the Empire was bigger and stronger this time with a superweapon we'd never seen before.

And Lucas comes up with another Death Star that we'd already seen destroyed in an iconic scene? He was going through a divorce at this point so I think he'd just given up and it shows.

[–] Oskar (315) 23 days ago

The original idea was that the Death Star was going to be around for all the films, and get blown up in the last one.

But Lucas didn't know if he'd even get to make more than one, so he blew the idea in one.

[–] MikeCable (1915) 3 months ago

Maybe slave labour helped. I'm sure the 'real' explanation is documented somewhere in a pedia.

Lucas was smart to introduce the shied generator for the purpose of a cool hectic third act going back and forth between space and the planet (and inside the Death Star II).

It was in a geosynchronous orbit above a specific spot and at a very low 'altitude' maintaining that position, so it would have had enormous power generation and usage just to stay there and keep from falling into Endor.

[–] DarthAckbar (2316) 3 months ago

Construction on 2 began shortly after 1

[–] FootOfDavros (8697) 2 months ago

Is that from some Star Wars novel / comic?

[–] DarthAckbar (2316) 2 months ago

Earlier versions of scripts mentioned 2 or 3 of them being built at the same time

[–] FootOfDavros (8697) 2 months ago

Really? That's interesting. Thanks 👍🏼.

[–] millsey72 (10936) 2 months ago

If Palpatine returns in episode 10, perhaps he will have a whole fleet of Death Stars at his disposal