why would you build a death star in the first place?

nightmare · Post by **nightmare** » 2002-08-22 04:54pm

Here's a thought on the Executor meets Death Star topic..

Quadanium armour is the same stuff the TIE panels are built of.

Presumably it's light weight, relativly strong for it's density, and with very good thermal properties. So a kinetic impact may be far more devastating than an energy beam,

Reasons:
1, TIE's are lightweight.
2. Those panels has to have good thermal properties if they are dissipators, as per Saxton's theory. If they are to belived to be solar panels, may may still benefit from high thermal conducticvity.
3. Light materials may have high tensile strenght, but they invariably have low density.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2002-08-23 04:02am

Yes there ARE middle men, even in the command structure of Palpy's totalitarian Empire.
20 million ISDs would mean vast amounts of high ranking officers in charge of portions of it, and if even a section of those ISDs were compromised, it'd be trouble.
It doesn't matter if no one can question Palpatine (in theory, in practise some have, Palpatine is powerful, but he can't be EVERYWHERE), there'd still be too many more people doing too many more things than there should be with just one Death Star.

If he cloned the entire crew of all ISDs, including their officers, there would be no questioning or disobeying Palpatine's orders. They'd all just be drones following the Emperor's will, but knowing tactics and strategy. So even if higher-ranking admirals and such disobeyed Palpatine, their soldiers would have unquestioning loyalty to him and would not listen to the admiral, report him to the Emperor, kill him, etc.

Imperial Federation · Post by **Imperial Federation** » 2002-08-23 10:51am

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:
Yes there ARE middle men, even in the command structure of Palpy's totalitarian Empire.
20 million ISDs would mean vast amounts of high ranking officers in charge of portions of it, and if even a section of those ISDs were compromised, it'd be trouble.
It doesn't matter if no one can question Palpatine (in theory, in practise some have, Palpatine is powerful, but he can't be EVERYWHERE), there'd still be too many more people doing too many more things than there should be with just one Death Star.
If he cloned the entire crew of all ISDs, including their officers, there would be no questioning or disobeying Palpatine's orders. They'd all just be drones following the Emperor's will, but knowing tactics and strategy. So even if higher-ranking admirals and such disobeyed Palpatine, their soldiers would have unquestioning loyalty to him and would not listen to the admiral, report him to the Emperor, kill him, etc.

That's really needlessly complicated.

Andras · Post by **Andras** » 2002-08-23 01:40pm

Crew requirements for 20mil ISDs are about 1 Trillion (@ 50k each including Stormtroopers) Compnor has 2 trillion Imperial Youths currently and is aiming to grow to 10 trillion. By the time all 20 million ISDs are constructed, Compnor will have 'graduated' enough Imperial Youths to fill crew reqs( if you can convince 1 in 10 to Go Navy). Training all these crewers will be a total bitch, but you could shuffle them into other ships of the fleet and pull experienced crew into the new ISD fleet. Clones need not apply

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2002-08-24 12:29am

Well there you go.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2002-08-26 02:08am

Those crew numbers might not be absolutely necessary in any case, I'm pretty sure you could increse automation a good deal before making a noticeable impact on combat efficiency.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-04-10 05:00am

bumpity

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-04-10 06:40am

Jesus, talk about necromancy. But I guess it does go along with the sorts of discussions that have been taking place recently.