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- From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
- Subject: Re: Ramblings about X-WING...
- References: <1992Dec7.022309.34538@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Dec11.025729.21834@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Dec12.133359.17965@athena.mit.edu> <Bz5pM7.4rB@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:43:55 GMT
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- cjwein@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Wein) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec12.133359.17965@athena.mit.edu> dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec11.025729.21834@nuscc.nus.sg>, isc10192@nusunix1.nus.sg (KOH KHANG WEE) writes:
- >>|> Anyone ever wondered why the empire did not beef up it's trench defenses
- >>|> after the first death star was destroyed in STAR WARS ? I mean, they let
- >>|> it be destroyed in return of the Jedi again.......
- >>|>
- >>
- >>It wasn't destoryed in another trench scene, but by the Millenium Falcon
- >>flying into the Death Star, to the center, shooting the reactor and flying
- >>out. The obvious question is why was there a direct path to the reactor
- >>from the outside that was big enough for a fair-sized starship to fly
- >>through, and if such a portal was needed, for repairs perhaps, why wasn't
- >>it defended.
-
- >Not quite. The Death Star was under construction and not closed up
- >completely so it was not difficult to find a route to the centre of the
- >station. You might remember from ROTJ that the Alliance was quite
- >disappointed when they found out that the main weapon of the death
- >star was operational.
- >--
-
- Also don't forget that there was a shield around the DS and a large
- enough ground force to repel any reasonable attack (of course they
- didn't consider the fact that a mob of furballs would attack them :-) ).
- Also there was the fact that it took a extremely good, lucky, and
- insane pilot to fly into the superstructure (remember one of the
- TIE fighters hitting the wall at high speed).
-
-
- Todd Walk
- walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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