Vader, be in my office in an hour... the Death Star problem!

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2002-12-09 03:17am

It was surely dumb luck that the Falcon in ANH lander so close to Leia's cell.

I'm wondering, if you're working on a moon-sized battle station, how do you get around? If you just walked, and you needed to get to the other side of the base, it'd take you a loooooong looooooooong time!

Maybe only a tiny, tiny portion of the Death Star is actually inhabitable, but still, it's incredible the amount of ground you might have to cover, and how long it would take you...

So what do they do? Surely those elevators can't be all they use to get around. Do they have high-speed trams inside, like a subway system? Do vast areas of the base just remain isolated for months at a time (only using radio and holograms and computers to communicate).. speeder bikes through the halls?

Or do they just say "screw it" and go outside in shuttles and loop around the Death Star to their various destinations?

jenat-lai · Post by **jenat-lai** » 2002-12-09 03:33am

Perhaps all the above... Catching a Lambada from Docking Bay South 32B to Docking Bay Northeast 87C would be an interesting idea

nightmare · Post by **nightmare** » 2002-12-09 03:35am

They have the same problems on large ships. My guess is that turbolifts are supersonic.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-12-09 03:42am

And it's possible that the cell block was near the hangers to allow for easy prisoner off/onloading.

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-12-09 03:43am

I wonder- what was most of the 800km diameter of the Death Star II made up of?

Boba Fett · Post by **Boba Fett** » 2002-12-09 05:08am

I think the Death Star has been "divided" to several smaller parts.

Each part has a separate garrison, prison cells, docking bays, flight control department, fire control department etc.

So if a stormtrooper is garrisoned in quadrant -let's say- AX-12, then he's nothing to do at quadrant AX-11.

This way only high ranking officers has to "travel" between "quadrants" on the Death Star.

Anyway it's just an idea...

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-12-09 10:10am

Vympel wrote:I wonder- what was most of the 800km diameter of the Death Star II made up of?

Reactor, fuel, and provisions I would assume.

Smiling Bandit · Post by **Smiling Bandit** » 2002-12-09 10:22am

The "evelvators" may well be able to navigate a series of channels and interlocking travel corridors in the Death Star. The cellblocks might have been only a few floors away, but then, we don't know that for sure. There was probably some relatively boring "take this deserted service pathway here".

So the Cellblock might have been very faw away.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2002-12-09 11:03am

Kurgan wrote:It was surely dumb luck that the Falcon in ANH lander so close to Leia's cell.

I'm wondering, if you're working on a moon-sized battle station, how do you get around? If you just walked, and you needed to get to the other side of the base, it'd take you a loooooong looooooooong time!

Finally, a good post by a n00bie!

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-12-09 11:15am

Vympel wrote:I wonder- what was most of the 800km diameter of the Death Star II made up of?

IIRC at least one third of the DS internal structure was hollow space surrounding the hypermatter reactor. (see ANH ICS DS cross-section sketch)

Moonshadow · Post by **Moonshadow** » 2002-12-09 02:27pm

speeder bikes through the halls?

LOL! That would be cool!

Zaku-chan · Post by **Zaku-chan** » 2002-12-09 02:34pm

Can't you imagine the stormtroopers weilding a sheet of metal to a mouse droid and using it as a skateboard?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-12-09 02:54pm

The turbolifts move through tunnels covering all three dimensions and move fast enough they need inertial compensators. Getting around woundn't be real hard. But then most personal would never need to leave their sector.

Applying Star Wars technology to skateboards or even bikes would be interesting...

Zaku-chan · Post by **Zaku-chan** » 2002-12-09 03:20pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:Applying Star Wars technology to skateboards or even bikes would be interesting...

Ever see Back to the Future II?

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-12-09 03:28pm

We don't even know the docking bay was anywere near Leia's cell.
The lift could practically have taken them anywhere.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2002-12-09 06:59pm

Yeah, but that was my point... how long did it take them to get there? A week? Hence the question of transport. ; )

MirrorUniverseSpy1 · Post by **MirrorUniverseSpy1** » 2002-12-10 02:53am

Good question. Having the cell block near the entrance would make sense
for fast loading and unloading of people.

But we dont know how long they were in the lift, so yeah, it could
have been a long time....

I'm sure somebody around here knows.....

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2002-12-10 10:35am

Or it could've been intentional on the part of the DS crew.

They did, after all, intentionally capture the 'Falcon. Why not bring them to the dock nearest the brig, so it would be easier to bring the crew there for detaining if(when) you arrest them?

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2003-01-06 04:46am

It was great reading all your replies, thanks... we'll have to do it again sometime. ; )

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-01-06 05:43am

Leonard Nimoy sold the Empire a Monorail

Monorail, Monorail, Monorail.....

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-01-06 07:22am

If you put people's quarters near their workstations you need not have mass transport or anything like that, after all, info can be tranmitted by computer anyway.

But out of boredom I did some calcs based on the card game Decipher used to do.
They claim Luke's landspeeder had a top speed of 250 kph, in the game it has a landspeed of 4.

The Lift Tubes have a landspeed of 3, I did some numbers and that puts the top speed at 187.5 kph top speed.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-01-06 09:13am

are you assuming an even spacing between speeds such that the seperations between 1, 2, 3, and 4 are all n kilometers per hour?

Andras · Post by **Andras** » 2003-01-06 11:57am

Cpt_Frank wrote:We don't even know the docking bay was anywere near Leia's cell.
The lift could practically have taken them anywhere.

You forget they walked back.

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Vader, be in my office in an hour... the Death Star problem!

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