Books A/V STAR WARS: ROGUE #$^$%&ING ONE: A STAR WARS STORY

Do we know yet how the Geonosians fit into the planning of the Death Star?

 

Then if we want to retrieve the plans, we'll have to begin surgery immediately. Doctor Demagol, if you'll make the first incision please:

 

I just hope it's not completely skipped over. One potential strength of having a new canon is to make it feel more integrated.

 

They've referenced the Geonosian involvement in the Darth Vader comic and in Rebels, so though I'd love them to reference the Geonosians in Rogue One I'd be ok with it if they didn't.

 

Honestly it may not have been a mistake. It's entirely possible they just need an exhaust port that big, and figure it's not a very big risk.

 

However, bear in mind that there are pretty much no Geonosians anymore by Rogue One.

(I expect Catalyst will definitely cover this, though).

 

(spoiler for Bloodline novel)

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These rumors that the exhaust port was an intentional weak spot come from the novel Bloodline. In it, it is speculated that the whole trench run and blowing up the Death Star by hitting a target seems too unbelievable to be coincidental.

 

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Which seems, to me, to be an indication on the writer's part that it was coincidental, considering I can't imagine that they mean to play down Luke's shot.

 

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Well yeah - my point is it's obviously not meant to be taken as a serious possibility. The dig depends on us knowing that it's not true.

 

Well, the Death Star 2 apparently had a system that distributed heat without being such a security risk, but yeah - the Death Star needs an exhaust port, and when designing the billions upon billions of systems making such a thing it is not surprising that not everything was 100 efficient. Plus it was ray-shielded and protected by scanner-jammers that led missiles off course - at least in legends - and getting it down to just six meters is impressive when one considers the sheer amount of heat involved.

Doesn't stop people from complaining though. Makes me wonder what they would think of various poorly designed war machines in real life, like that battleship that capsized when it fired its own guns.

Proton torpedoes can't melt Durasteel Space Station Cores!

 

Also, like...if the only way to destroy your space station is if the Son of Suns is recovered by his father's former master and given just enough training to fire an impossible shot past your heretofore effective defenses after his friend the hardened criminal has a change of heart and mounts a surprise offensive, can it really be called a design flaw? I feel like everyone always forgets that part...

 

Actually, it is just fortunate for the Empire that they wiped out so many Force sensitives that Luke was the only member of the Rebel fleet able to make the shot. And quite a few people other than Luke made a shot. Good thing for the Empire they all just happened to be non-Force users. If a ticked-off Darth Maul, Ahsoka, Ezra, defecting Inquisitors etc were in the fleet, destroying the Death Star doesn't seem so unlikely at all...

 

Galen was probably only responsible for the super laser. I see him as the galaxy's leading expert on kyber crystals outside of the Jedi order, and since we've gotten increasing references to how they function on the new books, perhaps what it took the Empire nearly 20 years to do, was how fire the damn thing.

The geonosians already had designed the super structure, and had already thought out the super laser itself.

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"Luke's Change" is canon now?

 

Well, Luceno is writing Catalyst, so that ought to reassure to a degree.

 

And the Geonosis connection is brought up in Tarkin, which he also wrote.

 

Disney has done a phenomenal job with the books, in terms of bridging the worlds of the old and new EU. (or would that be... "bridging the universes"?) I can't laud them enough for that. I wish Bloodlines had been part of the old EU -- it addresses so many pertinent points post-ROTJ the old EU never got around to developing. But it feels so old EU.

 

I'm suspecting Catalyst might give Tarkin a bit of a boost.

For myself, I'm not looking back at the old EU much any more, doesn't mean DE isn't going to be significant to me but it's over two years on so....

 

It was.

 

What about reading the old stuff for fun?

 

So you're basically confirming that you're no fun, right?

--Adm. Nick