you can tell this was a long long time ago because the camera bump hadn't been invented to sell cases yet.
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Why are they all the same aperture size?
Because science
Aperture Science.
I knew it! It's real!
3x the planets. turns out you don't need to completely vaporize a planet to render it completely fucked and uninhabitable.
It's for security™
The one on the left is the death star. The one one the right is the devil's bowling ball.
I think they should make another main line movie, and have a variant of the death star. That would amazing.
Amazing because of how lifeless the creativity on display would be.
maybe produce it over the top on purpose ? like the premise of lots of deathstars.
Jan Michael Vincent in ... multiverse of deathstars nexus the movie
Ironically more useful; multiple firing arrays at lower power settings mean it can selectively reduce its destruction to merely glassing a planet, cracking it open, or total obliteration. I mean having a super weapon is all well and good but obliterating a planet is usually overkill.
They are Sith, they have to deal in absolutes.
Why can't they just turn a dial down? Or maybe they can. It was a terror weapon, not an efficiency weapon. Your entire planet being just gone and not even a grave site people can visit is a pretty scary thing.
Let’s play “spin the planet!”