why dosent vader use the super SD in ANH?

any thoughts?

 

POTENTIAL IN-UNIVERSE ANSWER: Perhaps it was in use for something considered more pressing at the time when the battle broke out in which the Death Star plans were stolen.

REAL ANSWER: Lucas and pals hadn't come up with it yet.



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Yep. It was built in the Fondor shipyards some time before ESB.

 

Never mind that...

Come and watch ESB on my thread!

Its ace!

 

I don't think the Executor was ready until after Yavin went down.

 

I remember reading somewhere that Palpatine gave him the Executor as a gift for doing some important task for him. Could just be EU fodder though, so take it for what it's worth.

 

Regardless of how you feel on the whole EU thing (don't start please) everyone seems to be able to agree that Executor wasn't ready to be launched at the time of ANH.

I remember having the impression (as a kid) that becaue of the destruction of DS, that the Empire built the Super Star Destroyer as a method of revenge against the Rebellion. That was the whole point of showing it overshadow a regular SD during the first glimpse in ESB.

"there is always a bigger fish"

 

GL probably didn't want the entrance of ANH to go on longer than it already was.

 

Why would he use the SSD when he had the Death Star?

 

and except for the opening and one or two later scenes, we don't even see the ANH Star Destroyer much in ANH. It would have been a pity to have the Executor, but barely see it.


plus, I think having the Death Star AND the SSD would have been a bit of overkill. The Executor isn't as prominent in RotJ as in TESB, after all. One freaking huge killing thing is enough for Lucas, it seems. And I'd agree with him

 

What do you mean? ?

 

It wasn't built yet. The Executor was built for Vader between ANH and ESB. Check the OS' datafile on it.

 

[image=http://www.executor.net/Images/best_ssd.gif]

BAM!

(Just click it, it won't look all crunched )

 

Wow....you could fit a lot of groceries in that thing!

 

...as well as tennis courts, basketabll courts...bowling alleys...a Wal-Mart....a skatepark....low cost housing for the poor...and...

 

She may have went down to three A-wings (mostly), but the Executor is a beauty. It' s my favorite ship in the saga.

 

It makes you wonder how good the Empire's resources were if they could build two Death Stars and a Super Star Destroyer in just under a year or so.

 

"It makes you wonder how good the Empire's resources were if they could build two Death Stars and a Super Star Destroyer in just under a year or so. "


Actually,from the begening of ANH to the end of ROTJ,it's 4 total years. Still,that's a relativly short amount of time to build all the stuff they did.

 

"Just joking that one huge killing machine was enough for Lucas, until he went and made a second death star in ROTJ"

Ah, but it's one per movie, so nyah

 

God I love the look of that thing!

 

any thoughts?

OFFICIAL: It hadn't been built yet.

 

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I like this shot from an exhibition. The word "cruise" comes to mind when I see it.