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All I have to say is this: Soft sci-fi can go fuck itself. Except Doctor Who. Doctor who is the only soft sci-fi I can watch without wanting to find something to bash my head off of on the grounds that it would actually hurt less than watching Star Trek or anything like that.Jeez, dude. Pretty harsh statements there
The kitten seems to find my arms absolutely fucking delicious or something, because he won't stop biting and gnawing on them.D'aaaaaaaaw.
Not what I meant. They could cause the Death Star to crash into a planet. Having a gigantic planet-busting laser running around (or even several of them) would simply give the Vong bigger and more stationary targets.So? There is an anti-planet lazer on the Death Star. If someone launches a moon at it they can just blow it up.Do you know what happened after the Star Wars films? The galaxy was invaded by the Yuzhong Vong, a race that gains its millitary power from rapidly terraforming planets.Of course I know
And what were the Death Stars designed to do? Blow up planets. Palpatine was preparing to stop an intergalactic invasion and the terrorist rebel scum doomed the entire galaxy.
I also know that the Yuzhong Vong were capable of causing moons to crash into planets. Now, how big was the Death Star again...?
Lactose intolerant, I presume.Pizza makes me smell reeeaally bad so I never like eating any.
Do you know what happened after the Star Wars films? The galaxy was invaded by the Yuzhong Vong, a race that gains its millitary power from rapidly terraforming planets.Of course I know
And what were the Death Stars designed to do? Blow up planets. Palpatine was preparing to stop an intergalactic invasion and the terrorist rebel scum doomed the entire galaxy.
Pretty sure you meant Alderaan there. Coruscant was the Imperial Capital; blowing it up would get rid of some of his strongest supportersHe also wasn't making the galaxy safe for anyone. he was actively building things to blow up entire planets, at least twice that we know about.Well the idea behind the death star was ensure stability by making sure every planet was too afraid to rebel for fear of being blown up. It was basically the distant past-future equivalent of a nuclear weapon, but he knew he had to use it at least once, and he chose Corruscant as an example because that way everyone would know he meant business. It might well have worked had those extremists not decided to do a suicide run and blow up the single largest economic investment the empire had ever made.
True, the reason the Emperor was doing this was to make sure he stayed in power and in control (Sith lords have a crazy obsession with power and control), but along the way he was bringing safety and stability to the galaxy...
There may be some flaws here, but there is a bit of an argument to be made that the rebels were the bad guys all along.
The Hutts? Dude, Star wars has an shortage of women and an abundance of bounty hunters. There's gotta be an easier, cheaper, better way of killing Jabba. Hell, he probably eats like a horse, like a particularly fat elephant. Poison, undercooked food (salt?), man, Leia manages to kill him herself while chained up.... Sluggo McSluggerson over there was never palpatine's goal or if he was, then why did he never get around to it?The Hutts, or at least the ones like Jabba, were heads of organized crime syndicates. They would be hard to get rid of, wouldn't go down without a fight, and contributed large sums of money into the local governor's pockets. Basically, it's like how the mob still operates today.
