Weird thing about the Death Star

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2005-03-13 01:08pm

Assassin X wrote:I noticed lots of places says diffrent things about the sizes of all the ships in the Star Wars universe.

I always thought it would have been great if they made really small version of the death stars Super Lasers... kind of like Space Turrets that were really mobile in space but still small enough that they can been moved quickly.

Look closely at the bubble-turrets on the Republic gunships in Attack of the Clones. Small enough for you?

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2005-03-13 01:59pm

Drooling Iguana wrote:
Assassin X wrote:I noticed lots of places says diffrent things about the sizes of all the ships in the Star Wars universe.

I always thought it would have been great if they made really small version of the death stars Super Lasers... kind of like Space Turrets that were really mobile in space but still small enough that they can been moved quickly.
Look closely at the bubble-turrets on the Republic gunships in Attack of the Clones. Small enough for you?

And we even have a picture:

Assassin X · Post by **Assassin X** » 2005-03-13 04:31pm

Those arent Death Star lasers though, im pretty sure those lasers cant blow up a Mon Romanda

I mena something Pretty close to the power of the death star's laser but slightly smaller but big enough to destroy capital ships with 1 hit still.

Assassin X · Post by **Assassin X** » 2005-03-13 04:34pm

And on a side note the MOD for the game Homeworld 2 called Warlords has the Sovereign but the thing doest fire its gianr super laser which really sucks because ive always wanted to see that!

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-03-13 04:34pm

like the main weapon of Eclipse or Sovereign classes

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-03-13 11:18pm

Woo! Assasin X doesn't understand scale, AND thinks the SOV in Warlords doesn't have a functioning superlaser! I mean, its a *terrible* effect that causes horrible slowdown and isn't very powerful, but hey.

The Eclipse was a cool design, since it almost had a keel, and definately had traditional bows. The SOV was a piece of shit: a deformed pizza slice, or something.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-03-14 12:40am

Assassin X wrote:Those arent Death Star lasers though, im pretty sure those lasers cant blow up a Mon Romanda

I mena something Pretty close to the power of the death star's laser but slightly smaller but big enough to destroy capital ships with 1 hit still.

Did you even WATCH the movie?

Exact same firing style, same beam, same result, ergo, its the Death Star laser. How hard is it to understand?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-03-14 01:04am

Ace Pace wrote:Exact same firing style, same beam, same result, ergo, its the Death Star laser. How hard is it to understand?

Same result? Uh, sort of... but it's nowhere near the same power level.

I suppose the main problem faced by the Death Star designers was in reliably scaling up the continuous-fire turbolaser to planet-destroying magnitudes. That at least would explain why it took them twentysomething years to finish the first Death Star.

Star-Blighter · Post by **Star-Blighter** » 2005-03-19 11:27am

Stark wrote:Woo! Assasin X doesn't understand scale, AND thinks the SOV in Warlords doesn't have a functioning superlaser! I mean, its a *terrible* effect that causes horrible slowdown and isn't very powerful, but hey.

The Eclipse was a cool design, since it almost had a keel, and definately had traditional bows. The SOV was a piece of shit: a deformed pizza slice, or something.

The sovie reminds me of an athelete on steroids. Really fucked up steroids, that is.