![]() ![]() Further, any planetary government even remotely sympathetic to the Rebel Alliance must consider the risk of total destruction when choosing to harbor or even tolerate their presence. The exhaust port is one of them.ĭo you realize how impotent the Death Star has been throughout three movies now? This is supposedly a terror weapon that removes the need for the Empire ever to send boots to the ground to annihilate an insurgency. Instead Rogue One litigates side issues mooted by a future chapter. Rogue One should be the origin story of an ultimate villain in the Star Wars continuity and, better yet, it can't be killed. ![]() That doesn't repair a long running narrative shortcoming any more than it reveals another: The failure of the Death Star to be anything more than a big object built to be destroyed. I could give a shit that Rogue One gives a glib explanation for the Death Star's weakness. The result is more of a Wookieepedia entry than it is a story. Instead of a story about the people who shaped this Alliance victory - its first, according to A New Hope’s opening text crawl - Rogue One chose to describe settled fact more explicitly, and then suture that into the overall continuity. ![]() Whatever the explanation is, it's still a point made moot by a story told 40 years ago this coming May. ![]() The Death Star's creator left a fuse to be lit, like a cherry bomb, either as vengeance for the Empire killing his wife and scattering his family, or in regret for forcing him to create such a dreadful tool of oppression. Rogue One purports to answer this by saying the vulnerability was deliberate. Spoiler alert: This article assumes the reader has seen Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. One of the supposed virtues of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is how it patches, or at least explains, a plot feature that has bothered some Star Wars fans since the first film in 1977: How the hell could a superweapon like the Death Star have a kill switch like the thermal exhaust port, much less one unknown to its operators? ![]()
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