How are there remains of the Death Star?
It was blown up into a gazillion pieces... not into huge chunks.
shareDesperation.
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Odds are some pretty large pieces survived and were shot every which way.
shareYes 😂
https://youtu.be/xUjrqFVBgc8
Literally blown to smithereens. And also amusing to note that the rebel fleet backs away Endor side, meaning if that there had been any huge pieces of debris (even though we see there wasn't) it would have smashed through half the rebel ships, destroying them!
Maybe it had the technology to partially rebuild itself...
Is it first or second Death Star? Both Yavin IV and Endor have oceans, so could be either.
shareDeath Star II. The Final Trailer clearly reveals Palpatine's throne room in ruins.
I know, it makes no sense how any of this superstructure remains. Return of the Jedi clearly shows total Death Star destruction.
And if for some reason it was the first Death Star (which likely also had an Emperor Throne Room at the top), its remains would have sooner ended up in the red gas giant Yavin, over Yavin IV (where the Rebel Base was).
How are the occupants of spacecraft not splattered all over the interior when the ships jump to and from light speed?
shareInertial dampers
sharePseudoengineering? In which case ANYTHING can be justified? I guess that answers the OP's question then.
shareInertial dampers exist in real life. They are not absolute as in the Sci-Fi stories, but hey, it's called science FICTION for a reason.
shareThey don't counteract sudden acceleration to FTL flight though.
Invoking them here essentially allows you to conceive whatever reason you like for there being large pieces of debris.
Which is unnecessary because the final shots of the DSII, from Han and Leia's POV on Endor, shows large chunks of it spiraling away from the explosion.
In which case ANYTHING can be justified
Anything can be justfied... as long as you can justify it inside the rules of that universe. There's many scifi-explanations of faster than light travel in Trekkie forums, and they can be applied to Star Wars without problems.
Now, that a spaceship that was blown up in small tiny pieces suddenly appears half-complete... well, good luck justifying that. share
So can I apply, just for example, the fact that several buildings still stood after the Hiroshima bomb. And still stand till this day.
How small where the pieces? Return Of The Jedi depicts people on Endor being able to observe large pieces of floating debris thousands of miles up in the sky. Not that small and not that tiny. We can barely see the ISS from the ground so there must have been massive chunks blown out in to space for Han and Leia to be able to make out such large pieces spiraling away from the explosion.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/5/55/Ds2destroyed.png/revision/latest?cb=20130421213954
They brace themselves...
That's what the Death Star did then
shareA space station is sentient and can act on its own? Amazing!
shareOr it uses something like automation for certain scenarios.
Like when your airbags deploy in a car crash. Doesn't mean the thing is sentient does it?
But that isn’t what you said.
shareYeah I didn't mean it literally braced itself like a human does, obviously. Same as when Han speaks about the Falcon as if it's a person. He doesn't literally mean it.
shareThe poster above said people brace themselves for space travel and you said that’s what the Death Star did. Even taking away any personification, an object somehow bracing itself is not the same thing as deploying a section of itself.
shareBecause the ship isn't actually moving at light speed in a Newtonian sense, it's travelling at sublight speed and taking a short-cut through a higher dimension known as hyperspace, where a trip between any two points is much shorter than in normal space. Due to relativity, the ship appears (to an external observer) to accelerate to lightspeed and disappear as it crosses into hyperspace.
shareSo what speed does it accelerate to? You try accelerating by anything more than 50mph in anything less than two seconds and you'd be in serious trouble l.
shareImpact from debris as large as shown in the trailers would have been an extinction level event for Endor. Further compounded by the astronomical impact speed of a super explosion.
shareHow do you know it's Endor? Yavin IV has oceans, so it could have been the first Death Star.
shareIt's actually neither one.
shareSource?
shareNew 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Location Named
OCTOBER 23, 2019 10:59AM
by Graeme McMillan
Well, now we know where some of the final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker takes place, and it might come as a surprise to many — especially those who thought that the sight of a downed Death Star meant that we were going to revisit the forest moon of Endor again.
In an announcement about a forthcoming update to Star Tours — The Adventures Continue, Disney has named the planet as “the ocean moon Kef Bir,” with concept art for the updated ride showing the same Death Star dish as can be seen in the Rise of Skywalker trailer.
Kef Bir won’t appear canonically until December’s movie, although the planet was first mentioned in the new edition of the reference book Ultimate Star Wars released earlier this month, where it is revealed to be the home planet of Naomi Ackie’s character Jannah.
It’s unclear as yet whether Kef Bir is a sibling moon to the forest moon, orbiting the gas giant officially known as Endor — canonically, the gas giant has nine moons, so it’s certainly possible — but if that is the case, it would certainly explain how Death Star wreckage made it there.
All will be revealed when Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters Dec. 20 — which also happens to be the day that Kef Bir will be added to Star Tours at Disneyland Resort, Walt Disney World Resort, Tokyo Disneyland Park and Disneyland Paris.
Looking on the bright side, no more ewoks.
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