Moff Tarquin wrote:
Were there any major space stations depicted in TCW? Because the only ones I remember seeing in the movies were the Death Stars. Could be the fact that I haven't seen any of the movies in about three years...
I don't think there are that many cases. Even the ring encircling a planet could be relying on a sum of many normal power plants.
Outside of improvements made, there would still be severe efficiency limitations in the capacity to downsize such tech.
Which is exactly why Imperial star destroyers would never have been able to use such reactors.
Nothing indicated that the hypermatter core as mentioned in the OT ICS couldn't be downsized.
In fact, there even was a EU source mentioning a large space station, some kind of precursor to the DS, but certainly far smaller, which was said to have a hypermatter core but would use the ice from comets to find fuel in deep space.
We didn't have to ask ourselves if the Star Destroyers could host
annihilation cores, since there was an abundance of sources saying both the Death Star and pretty much all the other ships in SW used fusion cores.
What Saxton did was not only to hijack the hypermatter core and push it onto all power cores on ships past a given tonnage, he made anything hypermatter related to be based on annihilation. And if it wasn't enough, the fuel that was annihilated was hyper dense too. That, only to warrant biggatons which existed only in his mind and those of a few rabid Warsies.
You had knowledgeable people using their skills in the most dishonest way. It's really a miserable joke to see what kind of made up interpretation of SW they had cooked up in their minds. Anyone else would have observed a given material source for what it provided and worked from there. For scientists and engineers, there was much irony in seeing them completely ditch this simple and tried methodology to take a short route and reach conclusions based on hills of denial and fantasies only them could see. Their math wasn't faulty, their premises were. This, if anything, is a very good reminder that people working in hard sciences should never get a free pass when questioned about their objectivity and desire for self-inquisitiveness. Debates were stupid for the most part because of that, massive amounts of time wasted.