The living and working areas of the Death Star limited. Don't get me wrong, the Death Star walkable space is still massive. But most of the rest of the space is devoted to a massive generator the size of 5 New York's. Other generators size of 1/2 New York. There are probably about 100,000,000 stormtroopers stationed inside. The outer surface is coated in nearly impenetrable armor and thousands of massive turrets. Although in the movie there was a weakness, it would be unlikely that such a flaw would ever be made. Really, I don't think that there would intentionally be a path directly to main generator from the outside.
The size of the death star may be hard to grasp. Do you remember the area that the Millennium Falcon landed in and everyone ran around and rescued people and all? That space that everything occurred in was probably not even a mile. AND, it was only on a few levels. It would be like running around a house compared to the rest of a big city. The Death Star is amazingly scary, no matter how not scary it may have seemed when its weakness was found and it was destroyed. Thanks, Aidan.
Truly astounding scales, I agree. The second Death Star was far larger than the first, but the first was too enormous to fully conceive, I think.
ReplyDeleteTo extend your ten mile town, imagine nothing but buildings and machinery for fifty miles in every direction from where you are at this very moment. Fifty miles! That's most of an hour's travel at low highway speeds. That comes to over 7,850 square miles! All of that comes to one slice, one single layer of this massive monstrosity. Inconceivable.
By the way, the volume works out to just under 524,000 cubic miles. I wouldn't bet all our skyscrapers on the entire planet even come close to that kind of volume.