What is the mass of the Death Stars?

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Re: What is the mass of the Death Stars?

Post by Lucky » Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:54 am

sonofccn wrote: Which misses the other part of what I said, with multiple reactors it is still an additional assumption to assume some are on and the other isn't at X time and that it was merely brought online without any indication in X+Y time.
What ever floats your boat. The main reactor had to have looked like it could not power the superlaser yet since the superlaser had obviously been installed well before the attack by the Rebels, and we see no loss of functionality after the so called main reactor is destroyed.
sonofccn wrote: What is N-Canon? Are you arguing it isn't G-canon?
If it contradicts the movies it is not canon. I don't see how those quotes can fit into the movies.
sonofccn wrote: At the start of ROTS during the big fleet battle. And it is still jamming being employed in a fleet battle and assuming the "interference" is of a radically differnt nature would be an assumption.
You mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoN3mZQd ... re=related
No one is being jammed in the movie as far as i can tell.

sonofccn wrote: It is refered to as jamming same as what Lando refered too. I see no reason to assume Jamming means something completely differnt.
Normally when you jam communications you just throw out a lot of static, and that isn't what we see in ROTJ.
sonofccn wrote: Three times for three major naval battles as each involved larger fleets, well the DS1 was only one "craft" but its was big, than we typically see in the Clone Wars to the best of my recollection. That might explain the observed difference and keep Lando from being an idiot.
Two and a half times in seven movies and four seasons, and all involve special huge ECM optimized ships.
sonofccn wrote: Somehow I doubt Ackbar in Home One will be as convincing no matter how good of a clearance code he has.
If you want to argue that a strike team could not walk to base like we see the commando team do then you need to prove it. The planet was not covered with a shield, and every planetary shield I know of can be walked through.

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Re: What is the mass of the Death Stars?

Post by Praeothmin » Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:00 pm

Lucky wrote:
Praeothmin wrote: So you see, you do in fact assume many things...
It's all there in the movies.
Nope, it's all your interpretation of what's in the movie, with added things not there, like "a gambler not using proper terminology", while ignoring the fact this "gambler" is good enough to head an important attack...

So,
What ever floats your boat.
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Re: What is the mass of the Death Stars?

Post by Lucky » Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:27 pm

Praeothmin wrote: Nope, it's all your interpretation of what's in the movie, with added things not there, like "a gambler not using proper terminology", while ignoring the fact this "gambler" is good enough to head an important attack...
Leading an attack implies Lando is a skilled pilot, and has leadership skills. It says nothing about his training. The rebels just tossed Luke in an X-Wing, and said: "Go have fun storming the Death Star kid".

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