- 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).
Whoa. Serious math…I had no idea. I was just thinking that that is a lot of people to feed and house and organize…
I know, right? They must have to subdivide the crap out of the population to make it functional. I mean, having most of them be military probably makes it easier, because y’know. That’s about as structured as it gets.
But can you imagine navigating that place? “Oh, you want Engine Bloc 47. Go up 12 levels, head clockwise 32 km to Admin Bloc 9, and take the vertical tram back down 24 levels. If it’s broke again, you’ll have to go up to the surface and get one of the cargo pilots from Intrastation Dock 60 to give you a ride down with the next delivery of produce for the Bloc 47 kitchens. They go twice a day.”
No wonder droids manage everything in this universe.
No kidding! And wow, how did Luke and Han even find the right cellblock? How many were there?
A lot of them, apparently. Google reminds me that she was in Cell Block AA-23, which sounds utterly dire.
They stashed Artoo and Threepio in the communications center, remember? So that they could dig around in the station’s memory banks and tell Han and the others where to go. They must’ve spent an age wandering around in there, just getting from one place to another, even though we didn’t see most of it.
Honestly, imagine if the Empire really had ever managed to ramp that thing up to full capacity. It could’ve held MILLIONS of military personnel, armaments and ships, with probably enough prison cells to disappear the populations of small cities into the bowels of the station, never to be heard from again. And it could fly around through space. Imagine that popping up on the horizon of your world one day. “Hey. Grand Moff Tarkin heard you were sheltering dissidents. Are you going to let us swarm your planet and imprison anybody we feel like, or shall we just blow the whole thing up?”
The most awful thing of all is that it’s not even really the Emperor’s style? This dude slimed his way through decades to maneuver into ultimate power, and he can electrocute people with his fingertips. He doesn’t NEED a dread battlestation. But he must’ve thought the damn thing was just hilarious.
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