Rogue One [Spoilers] Inconsistencies with the rest of the saga

This is broadly correct. However, I think the way the GFFA is set up socially and politically is simply reflecting "center-periphery" dynamics in modern human political systems on Earth (urban centers and rural peripheries, essentially), and has nothing at all to do with astrobiology.

 

I don't know about the maps that are considered canon, but in my headcanon, the Core is the political center of the galaxy, not the geometric center. The actual core of the galaxy should be a very dangerous place, for all the reasons 1xEleazar mentions, and it ought to be a nightmare to try to navigate hyperspace through there. Let Coruscant be just clear of the outer edge of that area, and that can be the political Core.

 

Yup - the most recent maps, like the old ones, show Coruscant as close to, but outside, the central bulge.

 

True, but the new maps (see below) still show the "political core" as being much closer to the star-heavy center of the galaxy, while the "political periphery" is on the less star-heavy periphery of the galaxy. This is done for story purposes, IMO, and does not reflect astrobiological concepts of where life would be less tenable.

 

Found one!

In RotS, the Death Star's dish has sections being built.


But in Rogue One, the entire dish is being installed as one piece:

 

Ah, didn't know that. I hadn't read Catalyst.

 

Catalyst provides such a great insight into the Death Star building process, its awesome. As someone who was always curious about how exactly it was constructed, I can't recommend this book more! The Geonosis stuff, the super laser construction, the time frame it took (including obstacles on the way), Krennic's flawless inclusion in the continuity and even him interacting with Poggle the Lesser, it's all so well explained. I strongly recommend it to any SW fan!

 

I wasn't planning on picking it up, but now guys are making me want to.

 

That's not an inconsistency. In ROTS, what you see is the slot that the dish fits into. So like a light socket that you fit the light bulb into.

 

It's rather small and close to the equator though - if the dish is supposed to be bigger than the socket, its lower edge would be even closer to the equator, not matching what we see on screen.



Catalyst also has a smaller DS1 (120km compared to 160 km - at least early in the process, when they've created a "polar ring" (like equatorial ring but goes north pole to south pole and back).

Maybe that figure's retconned by Rogue One Ultimate Visual Guide - but maybe the Death Star went through a design revision process and ended up with parts of it taken off, and rebuilt bigger.

That might explain why the socket is both small and very close to the equator in ROTS - it's pre-revision.

 

To be fair, the ROTS Death Star construction wasn't even consistent with ROTJ...

 

I agree. Remember that nobody has ever built a Death Star before, it's a totally experimental design meant to do something that's never been done before. No doubt during the years it took to build it, there were many modifications to the design as they tried to make it work as intended. It's very rare for a finished product to look exactly like the initial prototype blueprints.

 

If C-3PO and R2 are on Yavin IV during R1, how do they end up on the Tantive IV with Leia, who was clearly not on the Yavin IV?

 

Raddus had "already left" the surface of the planet, but he was still waiting in orbit for the fleet to assemble. 3PO and R2 took a shuttle up (assuming at least somebody from the Tantive IV, probably Captain Antilles, was still on Yavin to take them up), docked with the Tantive IV in the Profundity's main docking bay - and then the fleet left.

 

So I guess my question is why is Leia with the fleet if, per Bail, her objective is to retrieve Kenobi?

 

I didn't know there was a deleted scene where Palpy carries around a life sized wax sculpture of Lyndon B. Johnson.

 

The Tantive IV was still being repaired aboard the Profundity (Rogue One novel) when Raddus got the message from Scarif and decided to go there. Result - before Leia could begin her "retrieve Obi-Wan" mission, she'd gotten taken to ground zero of another one.

 

But isn't the implication that Leia is neither on Yavin IV nor with the fleet when they jet off to Scarif? Wouldn't she either be on Coruscant or Alderaan?

 

I figured that she was on the Tantive IV, and Bail was planning on sending it to Tatooine instead of leaving it on the Profundity - but (fortunately for everyone in the long run) it wasn't quite ready to leave the Profundity, when the Profundity set off for Scarif.

 

Does the novel mention why the Tantive IV needed repairs? That seems bound to have a story about it.

 

The DS in RotS has struts going across the dish. The dish itself looks to be partially completed. There's no hole there. In R1 there's a big gaping hole, aka the socket:

That's because the Emperor purposely wanted parts of the superstructure exposed in order to lure the Rebellion into a false sense of hope.

 

If I were you I'd ignore a lot of crap in the prequels and just enjoy Rogue One.