Father Skywalker said:
Speaking of copyright issues, why would you even post any of it here in the first place???
PLEASE NOTE: This is the last post on this topic that I will make in this thread as it has already been thrown irreparably off-topic. If you want, Father Skywalker, you may start another topic where people can answer your questions about the elements of the Star Wars galaxy that you don't understand. I will not reply further to any other off-topic posts in this thread, however.
Because I thought by quoting the book, you might be satisfied. I guess this was not the case.
Father Skywalker said:
By canon, I mean, part of the same storyline, more specifically, the "same canon".....
Yes, all Star Wars media is considered to be of one single, unifying storyline. Movies, books, games, comics, all of it.
Father Skywalker said:
Does the book explicity say "boom, they died"!!!!
No, because it's implied that they die. If you want to make the argument that everyone on both Death Stars survived because they weren't shown explicitly blowing up, then be my guest, I guess. It's not correct, but okay.
Here is the section from the book about the Death Star blowing up, immediately following the last quote I posted from the book:
Lando was homing in on the reactor core shaft. Else only Wedge was left, flying just ahead of him, and Gold Wing, just behind. Several TIE fighters still trailed.
These central twistings were barely two planes wide, and turned sharply every five or ten seconds at the speeds Lando was reaching. Another Imperial jet exploded against a wall; another shot down Gold Wing.
And then there were two.
Lando's tail-gunners kept the remaining TIE fighters jumping in the narrow space, until at last the main reactor shaft came into view. They'd never seen a reactor that awesome.
'It's too big, Gold Leader,' yelled Wedge. 'My proton torpedoes won't even dent that.'
'Go for the power regulator on the north tower,' Lando directed. 'I'll take the main reactor. We're carrying concussion missiles -they should penetrate. Once I let them go, we won't have much time to get out of here, though.'
'I'm already on my way out,' Wedge exclaimed.
He fired his torpedoes with a Corellian war-cry, hitting both sides of the north tower, and peeled off, accelerating.
The Falcon waited three dangerous seconds longer, then loosed its concussion missiles with a powerful roar. For another second the flash was too bright to see what had happened. And then the whole reactor began to go.
'Direct hit!' shouted Lando. 'Now comes the hard part.'
The shaft was already caving in on top of him, creating a tunnel effect. The Falcon maneuvered through the twisting outlet, through walls of flame, and through moving shafts, always just ahead of the continuing chain of explosions.
Wedge tore out of the superstructure at barely sublight speed, whipped around the near side of Endor, and coasted into deep space, slowing slowly in a gentle arc, to return to the safety of the moon.
A moment later, in a destabilized Imperial shuttle, Luke escaped the main docking bay, just as that section began to blow apart completely. His wobbling craft, too, headed for the green sanctuary in the near distance.
And finally, as if being spit out of the very flames of the conflagration, the Millennium Falcon shot toward Endor, only moments before the Death Star flared into brilliant oblivion, like a fulminant supernova.
Han was binding Leia's arm-wound in a fern-dell when the Death Star blew. It captured everyone's attention, wherever they happened to be - Ewoks, stormtrooper prisoners, Rebel troops - this final, turbulent, flash of self-destruction, incandescent in the evening sky. The Rebels cheered.
Father Skywalker said:
So, when was the rebel alliance officially formed?? Both wikipedia and wookipedia claim that the senators meeting (with padme, mon mothma, and jimmy smits), formed the rebellion, but others claim that the rebellion was formed years later on.
Switch: Jimmy Smitts.
The Alliance has been formed at various times in various EU sources over the years, but if you want to use the scene from the film, which I suppose is the "most canon" of the myriad scenes out there, then yes, that was the time.
Father Skywalker said:
What does a direct, large scale assault have to do with an opposing stay system?? Please define an opposing star system in this context?? The rebellion?? Are the imperials a bunch of paranoid stalinists?? Either way, what does that even mean??
An opposing star system would likely have a defense fleet or at least a planetary defense force which would likely attack the Death Star. An "opposing star system" would be a star system that didn't want to be in the Empire anymore, and the Empire would not want to lose whatever resources that planet was generating for them and thus would want to fight to keep it in the Empire. The same reason the Republic didn't want to let the Confederacy secede. That is the reason the Death Star was constructed, to keep the people in line.
Father Skywalker said:
BTW, how early was the idea for the death star thought out of?? Please use the Expanded Universe EU here. On the jedi council forums, another user told me that as early as episode 1, darth plageius and darth sidious had the idea of the death star planned out yet.......
The Death Star has also been conceived of by various people at various times in the EU. Here is the Wookieepedia article about its history.
Father Skywalker said:
What does controlling people through fear to replace the Senate even mean??? The bureaucry had something to do with the death star;how did that control the imperial citizens?? Weren't most of them happy though?? I had a theory that the imperial senate was used to control people.
The senate was a bureaucracy, and as such it was slow and ineffective, and there was always the chance that someone could rise to power through it, much like Palpatine himself had even if it was just a puppet show.
By eliminating the senate and ruling the galaxy with a much more controllable element, fear, Palpatine could get things done mych more expediently as well as crush any major Rebellion against him. Remember, at the time of the original Star Wars, the Rebel Alliance was a very small rag-tag group of guerrillas with no major planetary support, just individual support. The Death Star was there to keep a major insurrection like the Confederacy from happening by making planetary leaders fearful that their worlds could be entirely destroyed if they disagreed with the Empire.
