They had NOT already tested their battle station at the time. That is patently and chronologically impossible. Princess Leia was captured at the same time as the escape pod was launched and Darth Vader made his fatal mistake to "send a detachment down to retrieve them [the plans]". Instead of doing that, he should have just moved the Death Star to Tatooine and blasted it.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
A different take
- 23/11/2009 08:00:42 PM
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This writer makes a huge mistake...
- 23/11/2009 08:35:49 PM
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That's not really true. They want order and power.
- 23/11/2009 08:41:02 PM
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Well yeah
- 23/11/2009 08:44:20 PM
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on the other hand, he's been taught that's how you maintain order
- 23/11/2009 10:10:35 PM
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Jonathan V. Last could do with a good game of Dungeons and Dragons.
- 23/11/2009 08:40:22 PM
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Re: Jonathan V. Last could do with a good game of Dungeons and Dragons.
- 23/11/2009 09:10:09 PM
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I like it.
- 23/11/2009 09:05:11 PM
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if you read the Expanded Universe (which I understand this author disregards)
- 23/11/2009 10:08:12 PM
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Well, then maybe the Empire was better
- 23/11/2009 10:43:59 PM
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yes, that's easy to say from our perspective
- 23/11/2009 11:02:25 PM
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It should have been fairly easy from the Empire's perspective, too.
- 24/11/2009 02:04:49 AM
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i am not saying that tantooine was important
- 24/11/2009 02:29:34 AM
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Once again, Tatooine, not "Tantooine"
- 24/11/2009 02:34:21 PM
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people are probably getting Tatooine and Dantooine mixed up.
- 24/11/2009 10:52:04 PM
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You would think that, but Dantooine is also mentioned in a previous reply.
- 24/11/2009 11:07:28 PM
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And let's not get Dante's and Randall's timeless discussion...
- 23/11/2009 09:18:24 PM
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Yeah, but they were probably all Unionized, so it's sort of crappy either way. *NM*
- 24/11/2009 02:05:39 AM
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yeah, I used that dialogue in a thread on the CMB that links to this article
- 24/11/2009 11:02:23 PM
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He does make some good points.
- 23/11/2009 10:23:22 PM
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He should have done the creation of the Roman Empire instead of Star Wars.
- 24/11/2009 06:19:28 AM
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Sounder, but not necessarily stronger.
- 24/11/2009 10:50:17 AM
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If you include Vespasian and Titus in "the creation of the Roman Empire," sure, I guess.
- 24/11/2009 10:16:01 PM
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