roane72:

culturevulture73:

jediknghtrey:

ironmyownpants:

jediknghtrey:

  • cares too much
  • super compassionate like who does that
  • abandoned his Jedi training to save Han and Leia on Bespin despite Obi Wan’s and Yoda’s warnings
  • gave his father, who was an evil warlord for over 20 years, a proper Jedi funeral
  • would not kill his enemies even though it was the easy way out 
  • never ended up picking up power converters at Tosche Station 
  • childhood nickname was “Wormie”
  • perfect cinnamon roll, too Good for this world, too Pure

Hold the phone, Did we forget the Death Star? He killed like over a Million people. And yes, he is too pure for the galaxy. lol. 

I, a humble Luke stan, would never forget the Death Star.

But that was not the point of this post. 

Tangent – how do a million people fit on the Death Star? I wonder about that number. It looked pretty empty when they were running around it…

And what is the derivation of being a “stan” for something?

Sorry, odd thoughts on a Tuesday afternoon.

A million and a half, according to canon. But how many people lived on Yavin 4 and would have died if he hadn’t? And how many more after that, if the Death Star went on to destroy other planets?

I mean, putting aside the fact that the first response is missing the point of the “perfect cinnamon roll”/”your fave is problematic” hyperbole, we’re talking two groups at war here, and terrible things happen in a war.

(Psst, @culturevulture73: the origin of the term stan.)

Following the tangent: remember that on your average planet, people largely live on the surface.  On the Death Star, the thing would have had so many levels, probably going all the way to the core.

If the diameter of the first Death Star was 150 km, then surface area is about 70,686 sq km, which actually is about the size of Ireland and plenty of space to fit 1 million people.  But the volume of the Death Star would be 1.77 million cubic km–which is a sloppy measurement for living space, but even accounting for generous losses due to high ceilings, infrastructure, and military equipment the size of city blocks, you’re still talking about floor space equivalent to a small to medium-sized country.

So you could fit 1.5 million people in there and still be dealing with a population density of like 10 people per square kilometer, including the people who’re off-shift and thus sleeping or clustered in cafeterias and rec rooms.

For comparison, the surface area of Earth (diameter roughly 12,750 km) is about 510 million sq km.  Surface area of South Korea is very nearly 100,000 sq km.  Population density of Wyoming is about 10/sq km (or 6/sq mi).

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