Quote:Yup, made no sense. The drama behind the ending of IV was blowing it before the Death Star "cleared the planet" and could target the Rebel base.


Plus, Alderaan was described as the first demonstration/operation of the Death Star in IV. To rewrite that history, they excused away the firing of the weapon in One as a smaller burst that would take a city instead of an entire planet. Meh, your fans didn't forget IV, guys. Not getting a pass from me on that one. Had that really happened in the IV timeline, then Han and Obi Wan certainly would have heard about the Death Star and it's power well before they encountered it - systems would already have been afraid of it. It would have been the talk of spaceports (like Mos Eisley) all over the galaxies. There would have been no "that's no moon" surprise moment. They would have recognized it as the deadly space station they had heard about the moment they saw it, quickly putting two and two together when they encountered what they called the "scout" Tie Fighter.


It was never a hyperspacing station. It was in orbit. It wouldn't need to orbit anything at all if it could move like a space vessel. It could just be stationary. I'm sure that could probably be excused away as... "well, it was orbiting because they were hiding it, pretending it to be a moon." You see where all the stories turn into more stories to try to spin away the changes? It doesn't bother me that they changed the story, let's just be honest in that's what they did. Let's not pretend this is what was intended from the beginning.

It was a hyperspace station even in new hope. Never was said explicitly that it was, but how else would it get from where it was constructed to Yavin 4? The bus?


And it's not unlikely that the whole galaxy didn't know about the cities being destroyed. Only a few people made it off alive and the movie stated the senate was told it was mining accident. Scarif was an imperial base. Remember the movie literally led into the beginning of a new hope, and only a day passed until alderaan was destroyed.


As far as the demonstration thing, I think the exact line in A New Hope was it was time to demonstrate the *full* power of the Death Star. Which was true. Up until that point, it only had used a fraction of its power

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