It says “origin point”. If the planet consumes its star for firing, there needs to be a way to relocate the planet. Otherwise, the First Order spent an immeasurable amount of money and labour on a weapon that can fire only once. This clearly isn’t the case, as the weapon prepares to attack the Resistance base after the attack on the Republic. If we assume that they also tested the weapon sometime before the initial attack, the planet isn’t at it’s origin point anymore, when we see it for the first time.
Hi there,
you are right. It looks like the Starkiller can only fire one shot.
One shot one sun consumed. Thats the main point it wouldn’t work.
And i am far awy from nitpicking real physics (like… if the sun is gone, the gravity is very different and so on…) Like chyron8472 metioned, it needs to move for the next shot.
According to the novelization, the weapon’s beam rips a hole through hyperspace, allowing for near-instantaneous travel between points. The weapon doesn’t need to move to target. It needs to move to find a new energy source.
I don’t know the novelization but even if the weapon’s beam can fire through hyperspace (and if we forget, that Kylo can see the traveling beam) it would fire through the galaxies center (black hole) and travels 43.500 lightyears in barely a minute and hits precicely a bunch of planets (see… i am not nitpicking on the splitting beam).
meh…
But… if you want to justify all of this by saying “its a movie”, “fantasy” and all of that “blah blah” i have an addition: nobody on Takodana could see the destruction of Hosnian Prime. The visible light would take around 25.340 years to reach Maz Katanas Planet.
Greetings from the real world.