Answer: 5 more movies! duhhhh…winning!..:dubious:
Listen, pal, when you’re wearing a fully face-concealing helmet designed by PSYOPS primarily to instil fear in the watcher and a sense of dehumanization in the wearer, you talk about fucking blaster handling, OK ? The fucking brass, I swear to God…
The obvious answer was that they didn’t know exactly where the Rebels were, just that the tracking device on the Falcon led them to the Yavin system. Once they got there, they could take reading and pinpoint the location.
Can’t answer that, other than to point out the nowhere in the movies did anyone do microhops in hyperspace. Maybe it’s not quite that easy.
And if the superlaser initiated a fusion reaction in the gas giant?
Instant star.
And the Imperials would be just a leedle too close…
Good thing Mr. Scott or Geordi LaForge weren’t working for the Empire…(recalling that one episode where they “pop the clutch” with a spare bit of dilithium crystal during a wargame).
Maybe blowing up a gas giant requires a different lens on the superlaser, and it was backordered.
The Death Star was built by Independent Contractors. Being as familiar with these folks as Tarkin no doubt was, he had to assume that they had cut corners all over the place. Just consider the untimely failure of the tractor beam!
It’d be foolishness to try and crank that laser up so high without taking the time to inspect everything and shake out the defective parts. Time that they just didn’t have, lest the Rebels escape and protract this civil war for another two films.
I find your lack of faith…disturbing
Or maybe it burns through a ton of energy/fuel to jump into the FTL dimension, making it a waste to do it when you could just truck on. I mean, who cares, right ? What are the rebs going to do, blow up the Death Star ? :rolleyes:
Enough of this, release him!
To their credit, any given one never repeats the error 