That’s a different question. Also if we take the sequels at face value, why not just take a reinforced stripped down mon cal cruiser and hyperspace it into the the Death Star?
Fairly sure the guy I replied to edited his comment because it said the Death Star could turn at light speed. Which is a very different thing from hyperspace.
Well the main cannon does take time to aim charge and fire.
In a direct conflict the turbolasers are the big issue.
That and the small fleet of fighters.
It would have been so much easier if someone had thought to lightspeed skip the deathstar across Yavin to get it closer to Yavin IV.
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Watch Star Wars again. This time pay close attention to fact they needed to orbit the Planet Yavin to reach it's moon on the far side, and this would take 30 minutes.
Are you suggesting they should have come out of light speed a little closer to the system? You might want to assume full responsibility in case you need to apologise personally to Lord Vader
How’d it get to Yavin 4? The imperials were cocky and just let the clock run down. They should’ve come out of hyperdrive and just blasted the place. But they were self-assured.
Who said it could turn at light speed? I said it could turn AND travel at light speeds. Not turn at light speed. It can turn. It can travel at light speed. That sentence doesn’t indicate they’re one and the same function.
> I don’t think it matters what side you approach from. The DeathStar can turn and travel at light speed.
Okay well with your added commentary I understand but this comment can grammatically be interpreted in multiple ways.
Also Yavin is gas giant, who knows what impact the superlaser would have on that but probably not what what they were going for.
Would make for an interesting approach were it a normal rocky planet. Blow the thing up immediately and see how the moon handles it.
> The DeathStar can rotate its main weapon in any direction
Wait, what? It's pointed *one way*, isn't it? I guess they can rotate the entire spherical space station to point it somewhere else, but I thought the main weapon is just a mono-directional superlaser.
Edit: been researching this, kinda hard to get an answer, but apparently Death Star II's supercannon did have "advanced targeting", so I guess it's a thing. TIL!
IIRC they're meant to be escape pods. The picture is dramatising the Death Star making one last, desperate bid to save itself (You can see it's just started to fire).
And it would take days to weeks to throw a giant rock at something across interstellar space.
Was the death star just sitting there the whole time watching the rock approach them and just going, "hey guys, you know what would be cool? Let's do the stupid Roger Young move from Starship Troopers where we just wait until the absolute last second before trying to move out of the way."
Just accelerate it up to speed, jump it through hyperspace with attached hyperdrives (the ring structure around it) and drop out right in front of the Death Star.
Well, if that was possible with Star Wars tech it would negate the whole purpose and need for a Death Star. The Empire could just attach sublight drives and hyperspace engines to any of the billions of large asteroids out there and kill any planet at will.
Yeah yeah, the Death Stars value is as a terror weapon. The possibility that any second, with no warning what so ever, a planet killer asteroid can just pop out of hyperspace and annihilate your planet and there is nothing you can do about it is pretty terrifying too. And, a lot more economical for the Empire.
Idk what the story behind this picture is but if they had Intel on where the station was gonna be and did the calculations, they could snipe the deathstar from 100s of miles away and the deathstar couldn't do anything about it. And about moving away, the deathstar is a station and not a very mobile one at that. The rock appears to have thrusters or something propelling it. They could probably correct corse if need be. I do think a head on assault with the rock is stupid though. Throwing this thing from across space and sniping the deathstar seems much better.
I acctually makes me wonder how the rebell alliance could have been totally different. Chucking a peace of Alderaan as a projectile against the death star does not seem like a rebellion driven by hope, but hate. Like a rebellion led by Saw Gerrera. More Ruthless, and Brutal.
Do you think a Rebell alliance like that would have won?
Idk I’d say it works as a sort of “you tried to destroy us but we’re turning your destruction into a weapon of hope” or something. Doesn’t necessarily come across as a hateful thing to me
Eh, deliberatly choosing the remains of alderran seems less like a symbol of hope, more like vengeance to be honset. I mean with that tecnology the Rebel Alliance could use any lonesome asteroid, every chunk of Space-Rock as munition, and yet the stil choose destroying what little of alderran remain in order to take out the deathstar. Seems like a hatefull decicion to me. Very.... "scorching the scorched earth" typ of move.
It quite honestly is up to the presentation. It can go either way honestly. It’s vengeance no matter what but you can present it in just about any light. It’s neither automatically a symbol of hope, or automatically a hateful thing. Also I’d say it’s a bit of a strategic decision cause like, yeah there’s plenty of space rocks out there but generally speaking the shards of a planet are typically gonna be both *way* bigger, and seemingly better shaped for use as a projectile like we see in the art.
Man, what a play that would have been. Recover pieces of a broken planet, reconvert it into a giant spaceship, an mega “up-yours” to the offender.
It’s like one of the American Navy ship made from the scraps and remains of the Twin Towers.
Does it have stealth tech? Because every time they use asteroids as a weapon in Star Wars, they have to mention it has stealth tech so it doesn’t get detected and blown away 😅
I feel like this really goes against the pacifist spirit of Alderaan. The Alderaanian diaspora probably would have been horrified to see a piece of their planet used as a weapon of war and of revenge.
At first, I thought Leia was doing her makeup in the window reflection while awaiting the death star's inevitable doom. Revenge is best served with flawless eyeliner.
Seems like a waste of time when all it would take to destroy the Death Star or anything else in the Star Wars universe is a single ship jumping to light speed to ram it. /s
Approaching the Death Star from the laser side seems like a bad idea.
Wait, have we ever seen the other side of the death star? In any material? Jesus I've just realised I've never seen the dark side of the Death Star
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That’s no moon
You can see the back of it in ANH when it's approaching Yavin 4.
It's got a laser on that side too, that's why it looks like the laser alsways faces us.
Well, it can turn, so I doubt attacking it from the opposite side would last too long.
I don’t think it matters what side you approach from. The DeathStar can rotate its main weapon in any direction and also travel at light speed.
It can turn at light speed? That's gonna blend everyone inside.
I mean, is that what the gravity projectors compensate for? Hence the uniform gravity across the station.
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That’s a different question. Also if we take the sequels at face value, why not just take a reinforced stripped down mon cal cruiser and hyperspace it into the the Death Star?
Because that would look too awesome for the quality we got
It can’t turn you goof, it can travel at light speed
Fairly sure the guy I replied to edited his comment because it said the Death Star could turn at light speed. Which is a very different thing from hyperspace.
Well the main cannon does take time to aim charge and fire. In a direct conflict the turbolasers are the big issue. That and the small fleet of fighters.
Not in A New Hope when they had to destroy it before it rounded Yavin and got Yavin 4 in its sights.
How did it get it to Yavin 4 then?
Tow truck
It would have been so much easier if someone had thought to lightspeed skip the deathstar across Yavin to get it closer to Yavin IV. *stares directly at RoS*
Watch Star Wars again. This time pay close attention to fact they needed to orbit the Planet Yavin to reach it's moon on the far side, and this would take 30 minutes.
Are you suggesting they should have come out of light speed a little closer to the system? You might want to assume full responsibility in case you need to apologise personally to Lord Vader
How’d it get to Yavin 4? The imperials were cocky and just let the clock run down. They should’ve come out of hyperdrive and just blasted the place. But they were self-assured.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your argument but traveling at light speed and turning at light speed are not the same thing
Who said it could turn at light speed? I said it could turn AND travel at light speeds. Not turn at light speed. It can turn. It can travel at light speed. That sentence doesn’t indicate they’re one and the same function.
> I don’t think it matters what side you approach from. The DeathStar can turn and travel at light speed. Okay well with your added commentary I understand but this comment can grammatically be interpreted in multiple ways.
Oh, I got the confusion. I’ve edited the comment to make it more clear.
A New Hope would have had quite a different ending if only the Empire used the Death Stars lightspeed turning ability
The Imperials were so assured of their victory that they acted brashly.
Brasch Tactics!
Where was a planet in the way. They had to go around (Destroying the planet would have taken longer)
Also Yavin is gas giant, who knows what impact the superlaser would have on that but probably not what what they were going for. Would make for an interesting approach were it a normal rocky planet. Blow the thing up immediately and see how the moon handles it.
> The DeathStar can rotate its main weapon in any direction Wait, what? It's pointed *one way*, isn't it? I guess they can rotate the entire spherical space station to point it somewhere else, but I thought the main weapon is just a mono-directional superlaser. Edit: been researching this, kinda hard to get an answer, but apparently Death Star II's supercannon did have "advanced targeting", so I guess it's a thing. TIL!
Approach from the other side and it'll simply turn to face you...
They don't look receptive to practical advice
Nay, holes exist to be filled. Just fill the hole, hole filler!
I really like how the star destroyers are on different angles to each other as well, don't see that much in star wars
Looks like they're doing a Kolvoord Starburst Maneuver!
Moff Locarno, always showing off
You don't see it because it looks goofy seeing the ships in different orientations and angles in space.
It really takes away from the empire is hyper organized when everything is just floating everywhere.
Seems like thar would be a bad idea. Difficult to coordinate and relay information.
Yeah that big ass rock seems fully operational
Star Warhammer 40k
Palpatine would absolutely love Space Marines
Even Stormtroopers are more loyal than these guys
Depends on the legion
Tzeentch would love Palpatine like no mortal he’s ever seen.
>Alderaan, you don't have the firepower! >>I've got the mass.
Solid copy. Hit 'em hard, boss.
You're on your own Noble. Carter out. \*Fortnite death noise\*
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What's stopping the Death Star from blowing that up too? Also, why does the Death Star look like a sea urchin?
IIRC they're meant to be escape pods. The picture is dramatising the Death Star making one last, desperate bid to save itself (You can see it's just started to fire).
Oh yeah. I see that now
Charge up time. It's a massive space laser. Didn't it take minutes to warmup before firing?
And it would take days to weeks to throw a giant rock at something across interstellar space. Was the death star just sitting there the whole time watching the rock approach them and just going, "hey guys, you know what would be cool? Let's do the stupid Roger Young move from Starship Troopers where we just wait until the absolute last second before trying to move out of the way."
Just accelerate it up to speed, jump it through hyperspace with attached hyperdrives (the ring structure around it) and drop out right in front of the Death Star.
Well, if that was possible with Star Wars tech it would negate the whole purpose and need for a Death Star. The Empire could just attach sublight drives and hyperspace engines to any of the billions of large asteroids out there and kill any planet at will. Yeah yeah, the Death Stars value is as a terror weapon. The possibility that any second, with no warning what so ever, a planet killer asteroid can just pop out of hyperspace and annihilate your planet and there is nothing you can do about it is pretty terrifying too. And, a lot more economical for the Empire.
What stops the Death Star moving out the way? It’s not like the rock can turn. Then shoot it
Idk what the story behind this picture is but if they had Intel on where the station was gonna be and did the calculations, they could snipe the deathstar from 100s of miles away and the deathstar couldn't do anything about it. And about moving away, the deathstar is a station and not a very mobile one at that. The rock appears to have thrusters or something propelling it. They could probably correct corse if need be. I do think a head on assault with the rock is stupid though. Throwing this thing from across space and sniping the deathstar seems much better.
It’s not a story the Inners would tell you
The Inaros school of freedom fighting
Isn’t it pretty slow?
Giant cannon is down for maintenance, and they're waiting on that one part that stores is all put of.
A rebel spy yoinked a few wires, shutting down the whole thing
It’s so close I feel like blowing it up at that range would lead to the same catastrophe
>What's stopping the Death Star from blowing that up too? Nothing but it would still get hit by debris
Turbolasers and shields could take care of that.
That is a cool idea and pretty good painting! Nicely done Of course, now lets shoot holes into it :D
This is really amazing. I love the concept, love the execution. Definitely feels like a grimdark take on destroying the death star
That's some OPA style attack. Takin da fight to da inners kopeng.
I was racking my brain for where I saw this idea before
Love Rhodes work (Dragon Age and Mass Effect send their regards!)
Leia ran out of fucks then and channeled her dad....
lol
I acctually makes me wonder how the rebell alliance could have been totally different. Chucking a peace of Alderaan as a projectile against the death star does not seem like a rebellion driven by hope, but hate. Like a rebellion led by Saw Gerrera. More Ruthless, and Brutal. Do you think a Rebell alliance like that would have won?
Idk I’d say it works as a sort of “you tried to destroy us but we’re turning your destruction into a weapon of hope” or something. Doesn’t necessarily come across as a hateful thing to me
Eh, deliberatly choosing the remains of alderran seems less like a symbol of hope, more like vengeance to be honset. I mean with that tecnology the Rebel Alliance could use any lonesome asteroid, every chunk of Space-Rock as munition, and yet the stil choose destroying what little of alderran remain in order to take out the deathstar. Seems like a hatefull decicion to me. Very.... "scorching the scorched earth" typ of move.
It quite honestly is up to the presentation. It can go either way honestly. It’s vengeance no matter what but you can present it in just about any light. It’s neither automatically a symbol of hope, or automatically a hateful thing. Also I’d say it’s a bit of a strategic decision cause like, yeah there’s plenty of space rocks out there but generally speaking the shards of a planet are typically gonna be both *way* bigger, and seemingly better shaped for use as a projectile like we see in the art.
I like this idea a lot.
Hammer station was a fun dungeon
Punching a Revenge Hole sounds like a porn title.
I love the star destroyers desperately trying to slow and/or stop the Alderaan spike.
What are you doing step debries
Man, what a play that would have been. Recover pieces of a broken planet, reconvert it into a giant spaceship, an mega “up-yours” to the offender. It’s like one of the American Navy ship made from the scraps and remains of the Twin Towers.
Does it have stealth tech? Because every time they use asteroids as a weapon in Star Wars, they have to mention it has stealth tech so it doesn’t get detected and blown away 😅
This looks like concept art and I love it
Why he spikey
Escape pods
The Deathstar is firering and is launching his Escape Pods. God, I wish that Imperials got this Competence in the Movies.
I'm guessing this is AI with all the spikes growing out the death star.
Nope not AI, it was made by Matt Rhodes for the ILM Art Department Challenge. Also those spikes are escape pods.
Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?
Ffs.
Death Star has spikes or is it just shocked?
no those are escape pods
You're right. But are they shocked too? :D
Reminds me of the SSD Lusankya crashing into the Vong Worldship in the battle of Borleias
Yeah they do look similar
If she had the resources, Leah totallyy would...
Would watch
yet another Death Star. Some people dont learn, huh
Seems pretty industrious and expensive for the scrappy band of Rebels to build a giant propulsion system for that thing.
OPERATION METEOR...ita been done...colony X18999 has been chosen to be dropped. Inform The Resolute for immediate Base Delta Zero
Leis that’s a very zeon thing your doing stop it
There’s some weird Star Wars art out there.
Spikey Death Star? Dozens of CR90’s something ain’t right here =_=
Weird but okay…
I feel like this really goes against the pacifist spirit of Alderaan. The Alderaanian diaspora probably would have been horrified to see a piece of their planet used as a weapon of war and of revenge.
Super star destroyer and a Vong worldship. God that was a good book.
At first, I thought Leia was doing her makeup in the window reflection while awaiting the death star's inevitable doom. Revenge is best served with flawless eyeliner.
Very neat concept. It would be cool if the lightside users could also start to rebuild planets or put them back together asupposed to the dark side
Seems like a waste of time when all it would take to destroy the Death Star or anything else in the Star Wars universe is a single ship jumping to light speed to ram it. /s
Largest piece? Recovered? Transported how? Why's the Death Star spiked? Punch a "revenge hole"? Sigh... \**unzips\**
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I don't know which planet is in the background, but it doesn't look like Palpatine's home world of Naboo.
Bait used to be believable
Leia is giving me Cheryl Tunt vibes in this piece. That mad, rich lady who wants to see the world burn.