They state the original took thirty years to build. So how'd they get the second one built so quickly?
shareIf they started building both at the same time, that would be understandable, but I think even the opening scroll states that DS2 was started after the destruction of the first one.
It's even more problematic because the Empire lost an entire Death Star full of personnel.... However, they do supposedly build these things with slave labor. I suppose in that situation, all they need is MORE slave labor to get it done faster.
To the movie's credit, though, if they use the same slave labor, then building something a second time will always be faster than the first time, due to familiarity with the process.
Also... Did it really take 30 years for the first? There's only 18 years between episodes 3 and 4, although the Death Star construction had already started and was seen at the end of 3. Was it already 10 years into construction?
Palpatine probably started design work during his days as Chancellor of the Republic, and kept it hush-hush as long as those goody-goddies in the Senate had any power. That could account for the first ten years.
As for building the second one, it'd be a lot simpler once the Death Star building infrastructure was in place - factories that could produce the giant metal plates for the armor shell and so on. Plus, they'd learned from the mistakes they'd made the first time, I'd expect construction on the second to go much faster than the first.
Rogue One kind of explained this. The man in charge of designing the weapons system quit and went into hiding. Then they found him and basically made him work at gun point. He admitted in his message to Jen that he was intentionally working slow, and sabotaging things as much as he could without being caught.
A lot less trial and error the 2nd time around, and they knew how to do it already.
And one other possible thing. When the Empire built the first one, it was during "peace time" and they still had the Senate, and they probably were trying to not scare systems into joining an Alliance against them. Even though the Senate had little actual power at that point, they still could get upset if the Emperor spent all the Galaxies resources into a space station meant to squash any resistance. So the Emperor could only budget so much per year toward the Death Star.
By the time they built the 2nd one, they were at war, and there was no Senate to interfere. So if the Emperor just wanted to blow all the money into this project, nobody could stop him, and if anyone questioned it he could just say "We are at war, we must take extreme measures to win."
Good answer. Makes perfect sense.
shareAny answer that includes Rogue One makes a mockery of the original films.
Having the structure in place to build the first one, making second one much more quick to build, and not having to do it in secret makes more sense.
Besides the fact that the second Death Star was barely over 60% finished, Death Star II construction began much earlier than people think. Construction likely started years before A New Hope, and not after A New Hope--like many think.
Just like the Super-class Star Destroyer Executor, construction didn't begin after A New Hope, it began years before A New Hope. These projects take time and aren't just built on a whim.
Palpatine had the resources of nearly the entire galaxy (minus the Unknown Regions) at his disposal, it's quite obvious the power hungry, show-off, dark lord of the Sith would build more than one Death Star given the scope of its power--and we all know how much he loved unlimited power.
Heck, even the old non-canon expanded universe featured the Death Star prototype--built before the first Death Star, a skeleton frame structure somewhere beyond the cluster of unstable stars and black holes of the Maw Installation near Kessel.
... except the opening crawl says;
"Little does Luke know that the
GALACTIC EMPIRE has secretly
begun construction on a new
armored space station even
more powerful than the first
dreaded Death Star."
... it is implied in the word "begun" that this initiative is of recent nature. But of course who knows? When they build the first, they perhaps also build spare parts and modules etc and so a second could be build much faster... Sandman 81 above has a great view on it too.
Because things are always a lot faster second time around.
Its probly basically the same design but bigger.
They know which hardware shops sell "death ray" accessories , where to buy the Canteen supplies... everything...
Where is that stated?
shareWhen do they say it took 30 years?
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