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Something that came to me has it been confirm that Captain Phasma is female or is that just assumed because the actor is a woman? Though I'll admit that hiring Grewdoline Christie for the role is good argument that character is suppose to share the actors gender (seeing as it's alot easier to find men that are that height then it's to find women).

Mange wrote:The theatrical poster has been revealed over at the OS: Star Wars.com

Luke isn't anywhere to be seen on that poster. Interesting...

Also, a new trailer has been confirmed for tomorrow's ESPN’s Monday Night Football. Hopefully it'll be released online later tomorrow for those of us not living in the US.

Bigger poster.

Death Star-like structure in the background - Starkiller base?

I must admit that I'm more and more curious about the abilities of Rey's staff.

I find it interesting that Rey's staff is paralleling Kylo Ren's lightsaber. Is that hinting at a connection between the two of them?

The Romulan Republic wrote:I find it interesting that Rey's staff is paralleling Kylo Ren's lightsaber. Is that hinting at a connection between the two of them?

It could just be the artistic design of the poster. Both the saber and the staff split the poster down the middle, marking the divide between the light and the dark sides.

hmm I wonder what that alien in the poster is suppose to be, looks a bit a like tall and "young" version of Yoda's species but probably isn't.

Lord Revan wrote:hmm I wonder what that alien in the poster is suppose to be, looks a bit a like tall and "young" version of Yoda's species but probably isn't.

It's probably Maz Kanata (a female pirate, Lupita Nyong'o's character).

Also: Spoiler

I hope they didn't go for yet a third "death star".

Starkiller base is a base capable of destroying an entire star system.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/starkiller-base

Apparently made out of an ice planet.. so i guess it's freaky huge.

Borgholio wrote: Luke isn't anywhere to be seen on that poster. Interesting...

Spoiler

Borgholio wrote:I hope they didn't go for yet a third "death star".

Spoiler If some of the spoilers are true, a lot of the plot ideas in this film are loosely similar to bad ones from the EU. I wonder if they will end up much better due to the fact that they are in the film format.

if they have resources for it would make sense for the First Order to build DS style Super weapons as they don't have the manpower and resources of the Galactic Empire to fall back on from what I've gathered (aka they're alot weaker then the Empire at their prime and big reason they're a threat at all is that the New Republic in the process of disintegrating)

Hmm... it seems like that would only be true if (a tad ironically, given this board's history) Starkiller actually does work off a technobabble trick instead of though raw firepower. If the First Order had the crews for a planet-sized battlestation and enough industrial power to sterilize a system without cheating somehow, an equivalent volume of Star Destroyers would be a much more effective tool to overthrow the Republic. Again. Stupid uninventive writers.

The emphasis on superweapons can hardly be blamed on Abrams or the the old EU. I blame G.L. and the makers original trilogy for setting that precedent. It is a brain-bug that Abrams seems to have garnered from A New Hope and is applying it liberally to NuTrek and this new set of SW films. I guess that this thing resembles the Death Star in order to hark back on a New Hope. Not saying that I like that, but I can understand what they are trying to do to make it feel like the Original Trilogy....

The Romulan Republic wrote:I find it interesting that Rey's staff is paralleling Kylo Ren's lightsaber. Is that hinting at a connection between the two of them?

Spoiler This would be another poorly liked story idea from the EU.

Esquire wrote:Hmm... it seems like that would only be true if (a tad ironically, given this board's history) Starkiller actually does work off a technobabble trick instead of though raw firepower. If the First Order had the crews for a planet-sized battlestation and enough industrial power to sterilize a system without cheating somehow, an equivalent volume of Star Destroyers would be a much more effective tool to overthrow the Republic. Again. Stupid uninventive writers.

That is only true if it is a battle station like the Death Star. Indications are that it isn't. Spoiler

If this thing can literally blow up a whole star-system, I wonder though why Palpatine's engineers didn't think up of it when they began to draft ideas for terror weapons. Is this weapon a new progression of already established technology, or is it a new innovation for which the means of building it were not available to the Galactic Empire?

Couldn't the DS1 already do that? I means sure, the only thing it 'immediately' did was blow up the planet, but wouldn't the wreckage spreading throughout the system at fractional c speeds pretty much ruin the system anyway?

Batman wrote:Couldn't the DS1 already do that? I means sure, the only thing it 'immediately' did was blow up the planet, but wouldn't the wreckage spreading throughout the system at fractional c speeds pretty much ruin the system anyway?

Yes, that should cause a good deal of damage to any unshielded worlds in said system unlucky enough that were hit by the wreckage.
And even though nothing in canon has stated as much, a fully charged superlaser blast being fired into a sun-like star might also bring about a supernova.

A supernova would pretty much destroy everything in the system utterly, I imagine. Blowing up the planet at least leaves behind space rocks that can be used later.

Where is it that people are getting the idea it destroys solar systems? Spoiler

Adamskywalker007 wrote:Where is it that people are getting the idea it destroys solar systems?

From the description on Star Wars the Force awakens official website: http://www.starwars.com/databank/starkiller-base

An ice planet converted into a stronghold of the First Order and armed with a fiercely destructive new weapon capable of destroying entire star systems.

Also since Starkiller base is described as an "Ice planet converted to a stronghold.." I guess the pictures we have seen of the new order is actually from the surface of the Starkiller.

That is one big cannon though. I will be disappointed if something so big as that could not even blow up a castle.

Just a thought: Spoiler Edit: Added spoiler warning.

Interesting: reputedly it bears many similarities with Centerpoint Station. I wonder whether they borrowed that idea straight out of the EU.

I was thinking along the lines of the galaxy gun, but yeah.