No, as I have been trying to explain, it's not. It wasn't me who gave out those starship stats. It was given by an official source that doesn't need justification. That Death Star's existence happens to lend support is fortunate in that it disproves any accusation of "wank" but it is not critical.Mr. Oragahn wrote:Wait, so basically, it's just the downscaled turbolaser argument in disguise, that is, pick the volume of your ship, reactor core or cannon bore or whatever, and multiply by "energy density".
He doesn't have to prove anything since he isn't the one claiming the stats, an official source is. He is just repeating what he read there.Mr. Oragahn wrote:You sure seem to read a lot in his words. Not that it matters much, because he'd have to prove that the Death Star technology can be downscaled. Which we're far from seeing any soon. Any claim in that direction would be hot air.
Besides that same old horrible leap of logic and association error, I thought CPL would be fairly aware of the recent revelations about the Death Star in the EU book related to those matters.
No one has ever shown any reasoning as to how various explosion artifacts point to "non DET" mechanism. Simply listing them is not enough.GStone wrote:Wrong.
Your stance assumes a method of operation for how the DS works, in contradiction to the visuals shown for the movie only universe. When going to the movie+EU universe, we again see that the mechanism isn't pure DET.
When discussing the movie only universe, the visuals override the ICS. When discussing the movie+EU universe, both the ICS and the recent DS novel have equal weight in authenticity. This would mean that the ICS is an incomplete tech manual when it comes to the description in the text for the SL mechanism. So, power generation levels can not be assumed to be equal to the assuming energy for planet desctruction because the mechanism isn't purely DET. There is some use of DET, but not for the entire thing.
This is how you are wrong.
Sources explicitly state that Death Star can generate power as several main sequence stars for a week. This only supports ICS further.