Starkiller Base

[Assembly Boards Representative]

Most people remember the dreaded Death Star. Both iterations of the super-weapon remains to this day in the memories of all for it's destructive capabilities and over the years many different stories have been told that show the long term consequences of those who find themselves victims of such attacks. Perhaps the fear rests in knowing that there is a space station that is capable of destroying your home planet, but what most people seem to downplay is that there is another super-weapon that perhaps is even more terrifying.

This is Starkiller Base. Unlike it's predecessor, the Death Star, this weapon isn't mobile. It's entirely stationary due to being constructed on a planet as oppose to being it's own operating space station. It utilizes the power of stars where as the Death Star utilized kyber crystals. The Empire constructed their weapon to keep the planets in line, but one scary thing about Starkiller Base is that it was likely constructed to only be used once due to it's ability of destroying not just one planet, but several across parsecs. The First Order knew this was going to be the ultimate end to the New Republic knowing that one shot was all it needed to annihilated all central systems within the galactic body.

Where if you were to see the Death Star show up. You know there is a chance that they aren't giving you a shot at redeeming yourself and that your days are numbered in only a couple of minutes. Where as Starkiller Base is likely unseen by most worlds due to it's distance and due to it's destructive beam moving slowly. You can only watch it get closer and closer once it appears in your atmosphere. Like an asteroid heading to Earth with no plan of knocking it off course or all plans failing.

Starkiller Base is terrifying.

[Derek‽]

I know full well that Star Wars requires a suspension of disbelief when it comes to how physics are portrayed, but Starkiller Base is beyond ridiculous. I could almost look past the fact that the atmosphere should have ignited as soon as the plasma from the star was pulled in, as well as when the weapon was fired (both would have killed everything on the surface), but I absolutely cannot pretend distance in space isn't vast.

The distance between Starkiller Base and Hosnian Prime is estimated to be about 40,000 lightyears. That means it would take an absolute minimum of 40,000 years for the beam to reach the target. Except, it's just plasma and doesn't travel anywhere near the speed of light. Keep in mind, the beam was traveling through realspace, not hyperspace. Every single character depicted in that film should have been dead and long forgotten as part of an ancient civilization by the time the beam hit Hosnian Prime.

I'm not sure the beam would even be a threat at that distance. By the time it reached the target it might not do much more than create a dazzling aurora display. Did the targeting engineers even take stellar drift into account?

I can't find Starkiller Base intimidating. I'd like to, but it makes no sense whatsoever and I simply cannot overlook the fact that it's so utterly impossible.