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[MetalSlimeHunt]

The Death Star can also move autonomously while moons are subject to the whims of gravity. I think there was also something about Palpatine using his Force powers to improve its fighting capabilities.

[Ultimuh]

Apparently, I have gotten a few fans on Kongregate without knowing.
What have I done to deserve a fandom?

[Sirus]

Good Lord I love having Star Wars debates, it almost never happens

1: I'd have to check my source book, but I believe it only took a single one of the Vong's gravity manipulators (though a larger-than-normal one) to bring down a moon. The Death Star might be able to resist a few of them, but it's rate of acceleration was abysmal compared to other Star Wars craft. Put enough gravity manipulators on it and not only would it fall, but they might even be able to keep it pointed away from the planet in question.
2: I can't recall in any instance in the series of the Death Star's main weapon being used on a gas giant. Would the Death Star be able to prevent itself from being destroyed by one of those? Upscaling further, there's no chance in hell of the beam having any effect on a star.
3: Big ships have a bad time with asteroid fields. I recall a moment in Episode V where the bridge of a Star Destroyer takes a direct hit from a space rock, and the ship's captain's image disappears from the conference in the next scene. Clearly something bad happened there.

[Furtuka]

    "What the Empire would have done was build a super-colossal Yuuzhan Vong–killing battle machine. They would have called it the Nova Colossus or the Galaxy Destructor or the Nostril of Palpatine or something equally grandiose. They would have spent billions of credits, employed thousands of contractors and subcontractors, and equipped it with the latest in death-dealing technology. And you know what would have happened? It wouldn't have worked. They'd forget to bolt down a metal plate over an access hatch leading to the main reactors, or some other mistake, and a hotshot enemy pilot would drop a bomb down there and blow the whole thing up. Now that's what the Empire would have done."
    ―Han Solo, to Vana Dorja in Destiny's Way

Felt the need to post this quote for relevancy's sake

[Sirus]

Well said, Han

[Mlamlah]

It depends on how long it takes to push these moons into planets. The Death Star might well be able to obliterate the planet before impact, meaning it'd be crashing through an asteroid field instead, and asteroid fields have killed like, 4 people in the entire series.

C3PO revised quote: "but sir! The odds of surviving an asteroid field are... well, pretty high actually, nevermind, carry on."

[10ebbor10]

Good Lord I love having Star Wars debates, it almost never happens

1: I'd have to check my source book, but I believe it only took a single one of the Vong's gravity manipulators (though a larger-than-normal one) to bring down a moon. The Death Star might be able to resist a few of them, but it's rate of acceleration was abysmal compared to other Star Wars craft. Put enough gravity manipulators on it and not only would it fall, but they might even be able to keep it pointed away from the planet in question.
2: I can't recall in any instance in the series of the Death Star's main weapon being used on a gas giant. Would the Death Star be able to prevent itself from being destroyed by one of those? Upscaling further, there's no chance in hell of the beam having any effect on a star.
3: Big ships have a bad time with asteroid fields. I recall a moment in Episode V where the bridge of a Star Destroyer takes a direct hit from a space rock, and the ship's captain's image disappears from the conference in the next scene. Clearly something bad happened there.

Also, The death star has a 24 hour recharge period.

On the bridge thing. Whose idea was it to put the command staff on the outside of the ship, and provide no backup system. I mean, nobody ever heard of cameras?

[Flying Dice]

It depends on how long it takes to push these moons into planets. The Death Star might well be able to obliterate the planet before impact, meaning it'd be crashing through an asteroid field instead, and asteroid fields have killed like, 4 people in the entire series.

C3PO revised quote: "but sir! The odds of surviving an asteroid field are... well, pretty high actually, nevermind, carry on."

"Sir! There are a whole two asteroids within 100 kilometers of us! We're dooooomed..."

Good Lord I love having Star Wars debates, it almost never happens

1: I'd have to check my source book, but I believe it only took a single one of the Vong's gravity manipulators (though a larger-than-normal one) to bring down a moon. The Death Star might be able to resist a few of them, but it's rate of acceleration was abysmal compared to other Star Wars craft. Put enough gravity manipulators on it and not only would it fall, but they might even be able to keep it pointed away from the planet in question.
2: I can't recall in any instance in the series of the Death Star's main weapon being used on a gas giant. Would the Death Star be able to prevent itself from being destroyed by one of those? Upscaling further, there's no chance in hell of the beam having any effect on a star.
3: Big ships have a bad time with asteroid fields. I recall a moment in Episode V where the bridge of a Star Destroyer takes a direct hit from a space rock, and the ship's captain's image disappears from the conference in the next scene. Clearly something bad happened there.

Also, The death star has a 24 hour recharge period.

On the bridge thing. Whose idea was it to put the command staff on the outside of the ship, and provide no backup system. I mean, nobody ever heard of cameras?

Because having a big glass window and NOTHING ELSE between your command bridge and hard vacuum looks awesome.

Okay, let's be honest. Even the fucking Federation of Planets wasn't that stupid.

[Jervill]

Hey, at least the Enterprise-D's battle bridge is located in the center of the ship.

[Sirus]

That's a failing of lots of sci-fi, not just Star Wars though

[Vorthon]

All I have to say is this: Soft sci-fi can go fuck itself. Except Doctor Who. Doctor who is the only soft sci-fi I can watch without wanting to find something to bash my head off of on the grounds that it would actually hurt less than watching Star Trek or anything like that.

[Sirus]

All I have to say is this: Soft sci-fi can go fuck itself. Except Doctor Who. Doctor who is the only soft sci-fi I can watch without wanting to find something to bash my head off of on the grounds that it would actually hurt less than watching Star Trek or anything like that.

Jeez, dude. Pretty harsh statements there

[Furtuka]

Yes. Let's try to avoid having the Happiness enforcement squad show up

[Gunner-Chan]

Yeah that's not conductive to the overall feel I want this thread to have at all.

Not that a lot that goes on in this thread is, but we can at least agree not to be hostile.

[Flying Dice]

I do like how the Halo novelizations actively mocked it by pointing out that the humans built their ships with the bridges as little glass boxes hanging from the 'bottom' while the Covenant put theirs in heavily armored chambers at the core of their ships. 

All I have to say is this: Soft sci-fi can go fuck itself. Except Doctor Who. Doctor who is the only soft sci-fi I can watch without wanting to find something to bash my head off of on the grounds that it would actually hurt less than watching Star Trek or anything like that.

Define "soft". There's a difference between authors that handwave everything because they're lazy and ones that do it because they're writing a story that happens to use SPEHSS as the backdrop to the drama (aka Space Opera).

For that matter, most of the classic Golden Age writers indulged in quite a bit of technobabble, though it usually tended to be internally consistent. See Asimov and his "positronic" brains.

In any case, it's a bit hostile to take a view that closeminded and extreme. :|