Major Error in AOTC

To start off if this was posted before I apologize now.

Now to the error.

When I watched the movie (opening day of course) a number of things in the movie took me by surprise. Near the end though something stunned me. When Dooku was handed the Death Star plans at first I was shocked at the addition of another plot twist. Yet after my initial shock I realized something. The ERROR is that the Death Star was designed by Grand Moff Tarkin. Now I have read almost every book that took place before Episode 4 (not many were written) and the ones concerning the topic all say that he (being Tarkin) created the Death Star. Unless there is now new information about the Death Star then please prove my error wrong.

 

Sorry to say that the movies are canon . . . the books are not.

GL has the final say, not an EU author.

Cheers and welcome!

 

Yeah, you are entering EU territory (you sound like you live there ).

The films are all that count, not books. Sorry.

 

eu is cannon according GL

citizen-tom

 

Agreed, EU is poo poo.

Canon are the movies, and to a lesser extent the OS both monitored by GL.

The OS says that the deathstar is the brainchild of Grand Moff Tarkin.

But AOTC never said who designed it, they just showed who was building...

So no error in AOTC

 

I know the GL is god and that the books mean nothing but it is an actual fact. Not known my many is the GL is also an author. He essentially wrote ANH (the book)and in it it says that Tarkin made the Death Star. I know the he can override his book but he said so himself that Tarkin designed the Death Star.

 

The movies are the only official cannon and rule out anything in the EU books. Hope that answers your question.

EDIT: Alan Dean Foster wrote the SW novelization under GL's name.

 

George didn't write the book of ANH.

Someone else help me out on the authors name.

 

That is why I said essentially. This is not based on the EU community entirely. GL himself approved some of the fact books that say this. GL himself said the Tarkin made the Death Star.

 

I understand you might wanna believe what's in the books, but once one of the movies contradict it, you have to take the movie over the book.

 

Disregard what they say in the books. This might make some people mad, but the movies are the only cannon.

 

Ok forget the books focus on other things now

GL said so
The Diplomatic Corps Entrance Exam (some of you might have taken it) says so

 

Sometime recently Lucas called the EU a 'parallel universe'

So there he is flat out saying that the EU and the SW universe don't affect each other.
That what happens in one (EU) has nothing to do with what happened in the other (movies).

 

EDIT: Alan Dean Foster wrote the SW novelization under GL's name

when was this revealed? i know Foster wrote the novelisation for TESB but my old 1977 star wars book says 'a novel by GL'. i'm not doubting you but when did it come out that ADF done it under GL's name? cheerz.

 

What makes anyone think Tarkin didn't design the Death Star?

The Geonosians are merely manufactuer's, and they are working on Tarkin's design.

Just take it easy you guys, Lucas knows what he is doing.

 

Where does it say so?

After ANH came out GL had a large amount of people ask him questions about SW. One of these questions was who designed the Death Star. GL said when he was working on the idea way back when he had first done the primary concept of all 6 movies but focused on the last three to be the movie. He left the original three if he ever decided to make a prequel trilogy. But his answer was when he was planning the idea in his maze of work he had made Tarkin the 2nd to the emperor (Darth Vader was 3rd) in ANH. He also made Tarkin the head of the Death Star and the guy who created it.

I believe at one point he say something along the lines of ?my creation?? (creation the Death Star).Maybe I am wrong, I will look at my script to see what the actual line was

 

A1Alpha, are you refering to my question? My question was meant for PloKloon1138.

 

I hate to break it to you, but even in the EU, the Death Star wasn't designed by Tarkin. According to the EU, it was designed by Raith Seinar, an associate of Tarkin's, and various others made contributions. Whether AotC contradicts the EU in this regard is up for debate, and it's largely a matter of your point of view. What is certain is that the Death Star had a long and often convaluted history in the EU before AotC and this is simply one more twist added to it.

 

Tarkin was simply involved at another stage. Did the movie ever say only the Genosians worked on it? No, Poggle actually said OUR. So to me, there is a good chance that more than the Genosians were involved.

 

Tarkin never designed the Death Star. According to the EU, Tarkin got the idea and rough outlines from Raith Seiner of a huge moon sized battle station. I assume that Tarkin then gave those to Palpatine, who in turn gave them to his apprentice who had the Geonosians and Bevel Lemelisk further make amendments to the designs. When Dooku escaped to Coruscant, he gave the Geonosians/Lemelisk designs back to Palpatine, who in turn had Tarkin set up the Maw Installation under the command of Admiral Daala, wherein a group of scientists headed by Lemelisk and Qwi Xux further refined the designs and produced a working model. So unless Lucas changes any Death Star info in Ep III, it all fits together pretty well.

Edit: With my slow comp. Face and Reaper beat me to it on some of my points.

 

Numerous articles and interviews with ADF say so. And I am pretty sure that in his newest book, The Approaching Storm, it gives him credit for writing the ANH novelization.

 

Anyone could have helped to create it, including Tarkin, or even Tarkin may have modified the Geonosian design. The fact that they have the designs doesn't mean that they are the sole designers, owners builders and future operators of the Death Star. EU characters like Bevel Lemelisk and Qui Xux, who refined the designs can still be placed in the process of its creation, as the plans would have been passed from group to group.

Edit: Basically along the lines of what Fire_Light said.

 

*waves hand* This is the link you're looking for

 

Good find, RF.

 

cheerz ReaperFett and PloKloon1138. Never knew that about ADF ghostwriting ANH novel. Still have my original copy of 'Splinter of the Minds Eye'- priceless!!