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teddycyclops t1_ixi2130 wrote

https://imgur.com/a/y7v95O7 That final shot (chef's kiss)

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Noahb26 t1_ixie8uz wrote

That ending credits scene was incredible. They did a perfect job depicting the sheer scale of the death star when those assembling spider robots looked so tiny but when you think about it they must have been larger than a human to be carrying around those parts.

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DerJakane t1_ixiet8z wrote

It pretty much is the intro of every episode

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phunkydroid t1_ixio9oc wrote

I loved it but it didn't make sense to me. You're telling me it was 5 more years before they finished that dish? We see it being lowered into place in rogue one.

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YahYahY t1_ixj1czs wrote

Completely unwatchable. Don’t these show runners know the logistics of creating a moon-sized laser powered planet destroying space station that can travel faster than the speed of light through space???

The fact that it’s almost completed 5 years before it’s ready to use makes NO SENSE AT ALL

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phunkydroid t1_ixj537g wrote

>Completely unwatchable

Did you get the impression that my one question about the timeline implied that?

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guitarman93 t1_ixjmfbz wrote

I dont believe the movies/shows have really touched on this much (which is a shame), but my understanding is that the biggest difficulty in constructing the Death Star is to get the superlaser working right.

The Catalyst Rogue One prequel novel goes into this a lot, and you hear some brief mentions of it in Rogue One (Krennic tells Galen that the work has stalled in his absence, Galen's contribution to the Death Star is his work with kyber crystals which power the superlaser).

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Ezzme t1_ixiqfwc wrote

Could be building it outside in, with the fact it's a moon sized structure that's still an insane amount of work to do.

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HTH52 t1_ixmmqop wrote

Yes. Because something keeps holding up the development. At this point it looks like the design is finalized since they are constructing it.

But components like power source and stuff aren’t necessarily ready. Galen Erso stalls it a bit wherever he can. There is also an episode of Rebels with a giant crystal that gets destroyed that obviously was meant to go to the Death Star project. I imagine finding suitable crystals took time as well.

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Animeninja2020 t1_ixiw3db wrote

For all we know, there might be issues during the construction in the next 5 years.

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Bobbygondo t1_ixjsuvg wrote

tbf they just lost a shit load of slave workers

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Poeafoe t1_ixlcn8e wrote

the clip could be five years in the future

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TheDorkNite1 t1_ixj10wh wrote

I think you see the dish installed fully in Rogue One? Unless I am misremembering a scene.

But the situation at the prison and others might delay construction.

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Worthyness t1_ixjht2x wrote

Next step for Luthen and the rebels- cause supply chain issues.

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Count_Critic t1_ixlst6d wrote

No reason that couldn't have been a flash forward a few years.

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