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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
ok, just watched the scenes again and yeah, i guess they do actually loop around the core and go out the same way the came in (at least that arguement could be made) but the part they go in/out of doesnt appear to be the barely completed section as it looks to be the surface...also, the schemetic/holo of it (shown shortly after they core is destroyed) shows 4 such 'pathways' into the center of the ship.
I dunno, the fact that they can fly a ship into the thing just makes it seem more vunerable than the small exhaust port on the first one. and i dont think the construction necessarily accounts for the ship size (and not just small ships either) tunnels in the Death Star II.
Maybe, while under construction, the Empire's construction crew used those four corridors for moving small ships and construction supplies in and out of the DS2. It wouldn't seem to make sense to me to build a power core free-floating in space and then build a superstructure *around* it. Then, as the core and inner construction wraps the builder seal the passageways from the inside out until eventually they are completely closed and sealed by the hull.