Slob the Hutt

LOL. I’ll hang out. I finally had a dream come true the other day. I was cruising the garage sale function of Facebook where you can buy other people’s crap and this lady had a bunch of her uncle’s stuff for sale because he had just passed away. Among the junk was a box of old movies that had the box set of the original Trilogy with the black label, before the Lucas additions/abominations, on VHS. I contacted the lady and she was asking $.50 per cassette. When I met up with her, I gave her a $5 bill, snatched it out of her hand and took it home to find that NONE OF THE CASSETTES had been opened. The original seal was still in place. I’ve been in the process of capturing the movies to my hard drive and burning them to DVD so I don’t have to wear out the tapes.

Feel kinda silly with an answer that basic…

Okay then, I’ll put that unnecessary brain worm to bed. LOL

So what, the Emperor called it ‘Fully armed and operational’ by virtue of the fact that it could fire and had a functional shield at the time it was attacked?

Ok, here goes…

The first Death Star had a propulsion system that toted it around the galaxy to act as a means of coercion and destruction. Presumably, it had both shield generator AND armor and a fatal flaw that was incorporated into its design was exploited.

Death Star II was fully operational at the time of it’s assault by the Rebel Alliance. Presumably, armor in place with its shield generator, which was located on Endor. However, by that rationale, the second Death Star was entirely reliant on Endor for its shield capabilities. If not for its orbit around the moon, it was subject to destruction.

So…

Did the Empire have designs on building shield generators on every system under its control? Was there a similar propulsion system or was there one at all? If there was a propulsion system and only the one shield generator, were they going to tow Endor out of orbit of its home planet and drag it across the galaxy? Were they going to build multiple Death Stars, one for each system, and build shield generators for support in their respective systems? Or could the Rebellion truly have just avoided Endor altogether if they had wanted to?

As George Carlin would say, “These are the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.” Thanks in advance for any assistance on this mental anguish I have suffered these 3+ decades.

I have a question that I’ve been chewing on since 1983. Nobody has ever answered it and I can’t get any major content creators to answer me. Anyone up for a head-scratcher?