I do. It help bring peace and order to the universe....

The Empire were the good guys

The Stealth Hippopotamus: I do. It help bring peace and order to the universe....

The more you tighten your grip, MIttens, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

For real though,

After McCain's loss a lot of republican voters complained that he wasn't conservative enough so they turned hard right and found success in the 2010 elections. Mittens is McCain all over again a middle right republican being pushed by the party leadership because he may appeal to independents. Romney is also suffering from what happened to Hillary in 2008, she spent so much time being pushed as the sure winner that the actual voters got tired of being told who would win before they even got a chance to have their say.

Do you have any idea how many jobs were created by the Death Star?

Sybarite: Do you have any idea how many jobs were created by the Death Star?

Sadly, they didn't have a Mitt Romney in charge or he would have fired the incompetent designers who left the biggest baddest weapon in the galaxy vulnerable to a couple of snub fighters.

I_C_Weener: Sybarite: Do you have any idea how many jobs were created by the Death Star?

Sadly, they didn't have a Mitt Romney in charge or he would have fired the incompetent designers who left the biggest baddest weapon in the galaxy vulnerable to a couple of snub fighters.

Or he would have outsourced all the construction jobs to cheap Ewok labor and the Death Star would have blown itself up the first time it fired.

Appropriate, I guess

/the Death Star got blown away, too

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Appropriate, I guess

/the Death Star got blown away, too

Yes, but its destruction is a better metaphor for Santorum.

miss diminutive: That's no candidate....

Also, how did the Death Star move around? I never saw any engines on that thing.

Please don't invoke the Geeks. Hyperdrives, etc.

if romney's campaign is the death star, then it would follow that everything that comes after its destruction will be insultingly poorly thought-out sh*t, meant to lazily capitalize on people's fond memories of a bygone era. sounds like santorum to me.

thomps: if romney's campaign is the death star, then it would follow that everything that comes after its destruction will be insultingly poorly thought-out sh*t, meant to lazily capitalize on people's fond memories of a bygone era. sounds like santorum to me.

And if Romney's campaign in 2008 was the first Death Star, that makes this one the second Death Star. Half-complete, doesn't blow up a planet, nothing relative to the plot happens on it, and the opposition wouldn't have destroyed it without the Ewoks.

That'd make Santorum, Paul, and Gingrich the Ewoks.

Oh, great. Now we get to see some photoshops of Romney dressed up as Governor Tarkin.

I liked the Death Star. It's not the Death Star's fault that it was used for evil. It could have done some real good in the universe.

Giant asteroid coming to destroy your planet? NO PROBLEM. The Death Star will have that sucker pulverized in a jiffy.

Linoleum_Blownapart: thomps: if romney's campaign is the death star, then it would follow that everything that comes after its destruction will be insultingly poorly thought-out sh*t, meant to lazily capitalize on people's fond memories of a bygone era. sounds like santorum to me.

And if Romney's campaign in 2008 was the first Death Star, that makes this one the second Death Star. Half-complete, doesn't blow up a planet, nothing relative to the plot happens on it, and the opposition wouldn't have destroyed it without the Ewoks.

That'd make Santorum, Paul, and Gingrich the Ewoks.

hopefully in destroying romney's campaign, the fallout rains destruction down on them and obliterates their sh*tty muppety civilization as well.

Lando Lincoln: Oh, great. Now we get to see some photoshops of Romney dressed up as Governor Tarkin.

I liked the Death Star. It's not the Death Star's fault that it was used for evil. It could have done some real good in the universe.

Giant asteroid coming to destroy your planet? NO PROBLEM. The Death Star will have that sucker pulverized in a jiffy.

The name wasn't helping matters. Maybe if it were "The Friend Star". Really, marketing could have saved the Empire a lot of trouble. After the first Death Star was destroyed you'd think they might have considered renaming it.

Elandriel: Lando Lincoln: Oh, great. Now we get to see some photoshops of Romney dressed up as Governor Tarkin.

I liked the Death Star. It's not the Death Star's fault that it was used for evil. It could have done some real good in the universe.

Giant asteroid coming to destroy your planet? NO PROBLEM. The Death Star will have that sucker pulverized in a jiffy.

The name wasn't helping matters. Maybe if it were "The Friend Star". Really, marketing could have saved the Empire a lot of trouble. After the first Death Star was destroyed you'd think they might have considered renaming it.

Or at least had a lessons learned session.

Look the first massively expensive ultimate weapon blew up due to a small fighter, should we leave the same security hole?

Of course all of the engineers that worked on the first one were probably dead because they certainly would have been on board for the first firing. Although maybe they destroyed some uninhabited out of the way moons first to debug the system.

EvilEgg: Look the first massively expensive ultimate weapon blew up due to a small fighter, should we leave the same security hole?

Of course all of the engineers that worked on the first one were probably dead because they certainly would have been on board for the first firing. Although maybe they destroyed some uninhabited out of the way moons first to debug the system.

Maybe it's too early in the morning, but I believe that they had an even easier time blowing up the second one because it wasn't finished yet, and that's why they could fly ships to the inside of it. The force field on Endor was supposed to defend the Death Star while it was in its vulnerable state.

Lando Lincoln: Oh, great. Now we get to see some photoshops of Romney dressed up as Governor Tarkin.

I liked the Death Star. It's not the Death Star's fault that it was used for evil. It could have done some real good in the universe.

Giant asteroid coming to destroy your planet? NO PROBLEM. The Death Star will have that sucker pulverized in a jiffy.

Dude, we aren't talking about a "Star of Kindness", we are talking about the motherf*cking Death Star.

Lando Lincoln: The force field on Endor was supposed to defend the Death Star while it was in its vulnerable state.

Once I hit the age of reason, this really bothered me.

They have the technology to build a force field that can surround the entire Death Star. Based on the size of the transmitter building relative to the size of the Death Star, the former would easily fit inside the latter.

So, why the hell wouldn't they project the force field from within the Death Star itself? You know, keep the transmitter sending out the field signal within the confines of the signal, thereby protecting it and not leaving it vulnerable to infiltration from a guy with a CB saying "Yeah, we totes pwned the teddy bears. Let me in!"

I know... I know... the plot doesn't work any other way. /facepalm

BKITU: Lando Lincoln: The force field on Endor was supposed to defend the Death Star while it was in its vulnerable state.

Once I hit the age of reason, this really bothered me.

They have the technology to build a force field that can surround the entire Death Star. Based on the size of the transmitter building relative to the size of the Death Star, the former would easily fit inside the latter.

So, why the hell wouldn't they project the force field from within the Death Star itself? You know, keep the transmitter sending out the field signal within the confines of the signal, thereby protecting it and not leaving it vulnerable to infiltration from a guy with a CB saying "Yeah, we totes pwned the teddy bears. Let me in!"

I know... I know... the plot doesn't work any other way. /facepalm

or why couldn't you just just move a large object in between the death star and the field generator to disrupt the flow of force field juice (i think that's the technical term)?

Lando Lincoln: EvilEgg: Look the first massively expensive ultimate weapon blew up due to a small fighter, should we leave the same security hole?

Of course all of the engineers that worked on the first one were probably dead because they certainly would have been on board for the first firing. Although maybe they destroyed some uninhabited out of the way moons first to debug the system.

Maybe it's too early in the morning, but I believe that they had an even easier time blowing up the second one because it wasn't finished yet, and that's why they could fly ships to the inside of it. The force field on Endor was supposed to defend the Death Star while it was in its vulnerable state.

If it wasn't finished yet, why was it fully operational? What is the rest of it for, office space for imperial bureaucrats?

EvilEgg: If it wasn't finished yet, why was it fully operational? What is the rest of it for, office space for imperial bureaucrats?

See, that was the thing. They wanted the rebels to THINK that it wasn't fully operational, BUT they hurried up and finished the laser part but didn't finish other sections (like the outer shell and maybe barracks for storm troopers and junk).

Thus...

"IT'S A TRAP!"

EvilEgg: If it wasn't finished yet, why was it fully operational? What is the rest of it for, office space for imperial bureaucrats?

Probably defenses. You saw how easily Lando flew an entire ship into the core. I'm guessing hangar bays, a self sustaining shield, generators for laser towers, barracks, supply, etc. There's a reason the whole Imperial fleet was stationed by it.

"Black hearted ball, roll the devils dice.
Destroy it one more time 'cause it's so good they built it twice."

BKITU: They have the technology to build a force field that can surround the entire Death Star. Based on the size of the transmitter building relative to the size of the Death Star, the former would easily fit inside the latter.

So, why the hell wouldn't they project the force field from within the Death Star itself?

Lucas' only failing in this respect was to make the transmitter site look a lot smaller than it should have been. It should have been multiple dishes, and maybe one control center that the rebels should have attacked.

BKITU: Lando Lincoln: The force field on Endor was supposed to defend the Death Star while it was in its vulnerable state.

Once I hit the age of reason, this really bothered me.

They have the technology to build a force field that can surround the entire Death Star. Based on the size of the transmitter building relative to the size of the Death Star, the former would easily fit inside the latter.

So, why the hell wouldn't they project the force field from within the Death Star itself? You know, keep the transmitter sending out the field signal within the confines of the signal, thereby protecting it and not leaving it vulnerable to infiltration from a guy with a CB saying "Yeah, we totes pwned the teddy bears. Let me in!"

I know... I know... the plot doesn't work any other way. /facepalm


The DS1 did have its own deflectors (otherwise the explosion of Alderaan would have destroyed it). DS2 wasn't finished and Palpatine had pushed them to get the superlaser working before anything else. The planetary shielding was just a stop-gap measure. Don't ask me why the planetary shield station wasn't itself shielded and bristling with gun emplacements, because I don't know.

bobbette: How come nobody ever talks about the millions of people who were working on the Death Star that day when a group of anti-government fanatic terrorists destroyed it?

/Death Star... never forget

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I loved Dark Forces when it came out. I played it like crazy.

They had a mod for it to let you play on the Death Star. That thing was huge. And apparently staffed by nothing but soldiers and military officers.

Then I recalled that was pretty much all it was in the movies.

Does anything actually get done on that damn thing? Or do they just float around threatening and blustering and scaring old people and wasting time and resources?

A conservative, a moderate, & a liberal walks into a bar, and the bartender says, "Hi, Mitt."

via Andrew Sullivan (new window)

This is like the 74th different reason that I've seen for the question:

"Why don't Republicans embrace Romney".

How many of these articles are they going to write?

Needlessly Complicated: This is the most awesome Fark thread ever!

I'd like to add, couldn't the Empire get a laser capable of emitting a beam of pure anti-matter?

/I get my cultural references mixed up sometimes....

And why the f*ck didn't they cloak it?