Actually it would have the opposite effect. The Death Stars were clearly unassailable by any conventional means - that means that they gave Palpatine a virtually unbeatable weapon (at least in conjunction with the Navy) with which to crush any opposition. Its not something anyone could easily counter unless they had similar firepower at their disposal, or something else (like a Force Storm or mind control abilities on the scale of what say, Palpatine had.)PainRack wrote:Why on earth would Palpatine do that? That would only serve to diffuse any form of stragetic power he had, and destroy the purpose of the Death Stars, which was to concentrate Imperial forces at his command, as opposed to giving more power to the governors.Illuminatus Primus wrote: If I remember correctly, the Death Stars were to be produced eventually as region-level mobile command centers. Its hardly unreasonable.
However, a single one of them is not much good - it can only be in one place at a time. You don't need huge numbers (although its possible they could build more if they need them), but you need more than one to effectively exert control.
IIRC, the ANH novelization had Tarkin also mentioning that the Death Star was the ultimate power in only the part of the galaxy they were currently in, not the galaxy as a whole. Don't forget there is cirucmstantial evidence suggesting multiple Death Stars were in construction elsewhere (IE the two over Coruscant.)
. I'd expect them to serve as fleet flagships, perhaps at a sector level, with the Eclipse much rarer; they seem more like something that might exist as one per Grand Admiral or so, just given their relative mobility for a superlaser-armed vessel. Sovereigns I admittedly don't know much about.
