>>104518355The Death Star was a ridiculous waste of Time, resources, and manpower, and a Logistical Impossibility.
It’s literally covered with guns, yet most of them are only good for swatting down fighters that are dumb enough to get with in range. The weapon on it with enough range to justify it’s ridiculously massive target is it’s main Cannon which is ludicrously overkill, even for the task of killing planets, and no doubt extremely expensive. God Forbid the Empire faced any semicompetent Militaries with WMDs of their own, or with enough ships with long range firepower to destabilize that giant Chekhov’s Gun they call a main weapon into being one. They’d be sitting ducks.
Forget moving or landing, It’s mass makes any sort of battle in anything but a pure void unthinkable, lest they risk being dragged into a colision course by the gravity of any nearby celestial bodies. The mere act of resupplying, would be a months long endeavor, as it would have to remain stationed a safe distance away from any planet or station, as relatively miniscule ships would have to ferry enough supplies to feed 1.7 million mouths back and forth.
Unless they could somehow fit an entire small country and it’s citizens in there, along with all the no doubt insanely giant generators and propulsion systems, it wouldnMt be able to fucntion as anything more than a Planetary Defense Force.
And lets not overlook the sheer insanity of trying to Coordinate so many people to keep a monstrosity like that running, but also the most ridiculous part, which was that they literally had thousands of StormTroopers and Naval Personell on board, and yet never deployed anything but Fighters, which is the strategic equivalent of using an Aircraft Carrier and stocking it with nothing but Rowboats!
