shanerjedi said:
Oh okay bingo, I see what you were getting at in your tower description. Cool.

Dear God, not more reactor talk.

Who gives a rats if it's a core or not? The main point is that whatever it was, the emperor blew up in it.

I don't particularly care whether anyone names it a reactor shaft or not. After all it's not alluded to directly by name in the film. It's open to interpretation.

I just don't like people's assertions that it's definitely not a reactor shaft, or that it definitely is a lift shaft. The latter statement being the most confusing of all because we can see palpy falling alongside the lift shaft, not within it.