Hang on a minute, I’m a bit confused. You’re using a picture of a building to disprove the “Death Star is just a big house in space” statement?
The Death Star is NOT a big house in space; the Death Star is a small planet (or, well, moon) in space. Imagine it this way. When the Empire built the Death Star, they build a surface. A plain, flat surface, like the surface of a planet. And then they build city structures along that surface.
The thing that the MF flew into was a really large building that was constructed on the SURFACE of the Death Star.
Also my point with the image I posted earlier is that they enter by the equator trench…
No, they did not. See the above comment. Yes, it’s difficult to imagine at first, but once you get it, it will be intuitive. You won’t be able to “unsee” it.
However, we can clearly see people standing on the same horizontal plane as the falcon does entering the hangar. They are essentially standing with the south-pole downwards, and the north-pole upwards, and with the Death Star core to their side.
No. They are standing with the core at their feet, their heads facing space, and the north and south poles are immaterial, just like on earth or the moon.
So when Darth Vader came in and said, “Send a scan team in,” he was standing in a building built on the surface of the Death Star, not in the guts of the Death Star. The Death Star is a small planet. You build stuff on the surface.
Are they “lasers” though?
According to Han Solo they are: “That wasn’t a laser blast…something hit us!”