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    22 hours ago

    one of these?

    edit: apparently the Super Guppies were replaced by the BelugaXL

    Which, like, can you imagine the conversation between whoever designed that nose profile and their boss… “It’s more aerodynamic boss. honest!”… “it’s not because we’re calling this thing a beluga?” … “maybe not just…”












  • Yeah. Sun Crusher is… uhm.

    Like. Why. even? Even the Deathstar serves no real functional purpose. That’s the problem with brinksmanship, and mutually assured destruction. Eventually, you’re gonna have to grab that other guy and jump off the cliff. And now, instead of a economically productive and valuable planet, you have an asteroid field. That, sure, you can mine for minerals, but that effort is now going to cost orders of magnitude more.

    And lets be honest. If the goal was to keep people too afraid to try anything, eventually some dumb kid from a dried up backwater is going to blow it up. And then you look really fucking weak.

    The economic loss of entire systems, though, is just bad for business.



  • yup.

    Han was bullshitting them. Remember, Han is a fast talking scoundrel who runs scams on rubes.

    For people who don’t know Parsec… is a unit of distance. an object 1 parsec from the sun would be an object that has a parralax angle of 1 arc second. a second of arc is the easiest to explain- it’s 1/60th of a minute of arc, which is 1/60th of a degree. (arc second is 1/3600th of a degree.) it comes to about 3 lightyears.

    It would be like saying, “I made the Chicago-NY run in less than [whatever miles]!” when talking about how fast his ship is. The distance is fixed. the kessel run is largely fixed.


  • There are stormtroopers, and then there are stormtroopers. The 501st legion is the best of the best. Most the riffraff were… not.

    Like. Every planet probably had to source storm troopers for their own defense from local communities, and they were basically somewhere between Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Keystone Kops.

    The stormtroopers on Tatooine were 501st. The ones on the Deathstar (at lest, some of them) probably were, as well, given Vader’s presence. DS-1 troopers wouldn’t have been there if they weren’t competent, at least.