How 4 Planets Looked After the DEATH STAR Attacked
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We take a look at what happened to worlds like Jedha, Scarif, Alderaan and the entire Hosnian System after super weapons like the Death Star and Star Killer Base attacked them.
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Hey alen would samurai jack with his unbreakable magic sword,he is also a master at all known martial arts( that is also able to deflect plasma based projectiles) be able to compete with force users? And would he be able to survive in the star wars universe?.just a thought😁
Are you not gonna forget the rise of Skywalker literally a death star laser strapped to a star destroyer
I'm guessing the planets wouldn't look very planetry...?
I want to blow up a moon. All the cool kids get to blow up a moon, I WANNA BLOW UP A MOON!.
Interestingly when Palpatine found out that Alderaan was destroyed he was shocked because he thought that Tarkin would destroy some unimportant planet and not something like Alderaan.
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The Hosnian system attack is the most destructive in this list, has the highest count of victim, by the biggest weapon. Yet we care about it the least.
That’s what happens when a movie sucks. Plus, it has nothing on the Galaxy Gun, the cooler Starkiller Base.
To be fair, the scene was a really good one, at least in my opinion.
Sadly though a nugget of gold in a pile of shit won’t make it smell any better.
True, though we only know the Hosnian system even exists for about ten seconds before the blasts from Starkiller Base arrive. There's just no real connection for the audience: unlike Alderaan, which was built up in ANH as a refuge and source of support for the Rebellion, the main characters in TFA were far more interested in making contact with the Resistance, not the New Republic.
When the audience learns how reluctant the NR was to deal with clear and present dangers like the First Order... Well, the loss of life is tragic, but as a government and a player in the overall plot, the New Republic came across as even more passive and useless than the Old.
@@pomeranianproductions647 it's a stretch to say it's a really good scene
A Fact is that Disney just show it as it is "not a big Deal" in the Galaxy. Or did anybody talk about that once more in that Saga after it happend? 🤢
(TLJ/TROS)
In my opinion, Rogue One has some of the most impressive visuals from any of the movies. Especially the shots involving the Death Star.
Seeing the deathstar eclipse the sun before firing on Jedha was genuinely spectacular.
Controversial opinion, Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie. In terms of storytelling, the trilogies have better character arcs and interactions, but in terms of one-on-one movies Rogue One is the best
@@purplecat6578 it’s definitely on my top 7, in which all are good.
(Not including the sequels and solo lmao)
@@purplecat6578 Controversial as it may be, it is also my opinion, and some friends of mine also share this. For one, Rogue One has a well laid-out and original story (unlike the sequel trilogy), actual interesting characters (unlike the sequel trilogy), incredible, state-of-the art visuals (unlike the original, and to a lesser extent, the prequel trilogy), and just all around great direction and execution. Though, to be fair, it is the original and prequel trilogies themselves that enable its greatest feat: the nostalgia factor by masterfully linking the two trilogies, especially with its ending that is, to me, the best sequence of scenes in Star Wars history by a mile.
@@purplecat6578dude that soundcue when the rebels arrived at scarif... the cinema was roaring. I am so happy we,at least got arogue one.
The Imperial Scarif Garrison deserved better. Imagine being a trooper chilling for your beach deployment and getting obliterated by the Death Star. When I think about how Scarif looked after the Death Star’s blast hit the surface, I think it kind of ended up looking like Harry Osborn’s face in Spider-man 3 after he took a grenade to the face. Half scorched and scarred while the other half looks normal.
I'd like to think that some survived, on jedha some of saw's partisans made it to starships and managed to escape
@@GenerationTech maybe Tray Trooper was originally stationed on Scarif and escaped to be redeployed on Morak
Also like jadha the planet wasn’t destroyed. This was one of the reasons why people close to the blast could get away. While other outside the blast radius could have survived as well if they were then able to survive the planet fracture and ecological fallout. Something we know is possible do to other plants that have been glassed or ripped to shreds yet somehow some people survived. Best example being the tuskins and mandalorian who have survived multiple events like that.
@@kevind3974 ah yes, Mandalore, the goddamn planet of war
@@starlight0313 agreed. tatooin had like what 3 or 4. initial glassing, everything turning to desert, half the world becoming uninhabitable, and possible the great heat wave.
mandalor on the other hand who the fuck know, as i don't even think the Mandalorians know anymore. it has to be at this point 20+
You know. I'm still amazed that no extended universe writer ever went.
"You know Yavin 4? There's probably the ultimate Sith weapon sitting somewhere in a crater on its surface.
A kiber crystal that's murdered more life that any other in the galaxy.
One that repeatedly made countless lives scream out in fear and then go silent.
Heck the Great Pyramid might've actually been that. I know there was a light cruiser owned by Naga Sadow hidden somewhere in one of the pyramids, but only a user of Bogan could activate its lightning phaser weapon.
It was a sacred planet to the Sith.
@@ZJMusic1990 Imagine if Palpatine found out they were trying to destroy it
Also it's a moon
You mean a fragment of the Death Star? Honestly that’s an amazing idea
Bioware dealt with that in December 2014 - Though legends was basically finished by then. Made it so Revan tried to use the ultimate sith superweapon on Yavin, and likely led to it being dismantled by a coalition of Republic + Empire in the aftermath.
I wonder if all the kyber on Jedda magnified the death star blast to be even more destructive, hence the crust being destroyed. Combined with the angle of attack I think Scarif is probably in (relatively) better shape.
Scarif definitely got off easy for being hit with a Death Star beam of any magnitude
Given what we see in Star Wars Rebels with experiments on Kyber showing that it when not in lightsaber and current runs through it causing unstable but powerful bursts of energy to be released? Yeah I would say what deposits were left amplified the sheer amount of destruction. Also if any survived given their psyhic nature I would very very cautious when bonding with one. Likely to be just as unstable as any resident of Jedda or Alderaan upon seeing the Death Star. From a Darkside point of view though it would require very little breaking and thus make a very powerful if unstable blade. Hmm makes me wonder if off scene Kylo's saber's cracked crystal was going to be explained this way to MCU up things more.
Not to mention Scariff is a much larger world, so breaking the planet apart is harder just by merit of gravity.
@@daviddent5662
Nah, if any Crystal's survived on Jedha, they'd be just regular Crystal's. Jedha never had any life so, it's not like they'd be affected by anyone really dying, as there was few there to begin
I feel like the atmosphere of Jedda would’ve been stripped away given the amount of mass disrupted and sent into orbit.
Same for Scarif.
Some thinning out probably. Most of the mass are probably in the core and still there.
@@michaelpettersson4919 IKR? What wasn't blasted away would fill the huge hole leaving a vacuum over the rest of the globe until gasses emanated from the mantle starts flowing up and across the surface.
Jedda’s atmosphere DEFINITELY would have been stripped off.
Scarif though, would have all it’s ocean evaporate, steam is a greenhouse gas, so it probably would’ve ended up like Venus unfortunately.
At the least, there would be wind storms from all the air rushing to replace that lost mass.
Atmosphere takes hundreds of years to be totally stripped away its not just a popped balloon
In Legends, Alderaneans stopped contributing funeral gifts to the Graveyard because looters and scavengers kept on stealing items and artifacts from the site.
That sad
That's.... Depressing.
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The Scarif strike definitely didn't alter the planet like the strike on Jedha. The blast on Scarif looked more like a massive nuclear explosion (bigger than anything we've seen in real life), but seemed relatively "contained", while the Jedha blast had almost every characteristic of a comet or meteor impact, with huge amounts of ejecta being thrown into low orbit that would plummet back down to the surface. I think it was an interesting contrast they showed us, and showed that the Death Star, while unavoidably super destructive, had a relatively versatile use depending on the angle of attack.
So essentially even on the lowest levels, if any planet got hit by this thing, its pretty much not worth being on it anymore. Damn
I wonder what would happen to Earth if the Death Star hit the tip of Mount Everest from a horizontal angle with a single-reactor ignition.
@@samdalseide5060 chances are, it would either just zip past the rest of the planet or it would just barely graze a part of it in witch case, most likely large earthquakes and tsunamis could occur in the region it passed through.
Edit: ah wait. You said horizontal angle not just any angle. In that case, only the tip of everest would be destoyed and maybe some of the mountain would crumble but Earth itself would be fine.
@@DarkRavenWolf50 Okay, what if it hits the base of Everest at a horizontal angle with a single-reactor ignition?
Then the same thing with Jedha would occur.
@@DarkRavenWolf50 From that description, sounds like it would be like the Mt St Helens eruption but on a larger scale
There has to be a lesson here. Destroying Planets is just counterproductive. Alderaans destruction must have an effect the relative gravitational pulls of others bodies in the system and Hosnian Prime, I don't want to think about what multiple planets would do to, gravitational pull, hyperspace travel or trade. Seriously the lesson here for Intersolar Dictators is "to limit destructions to cities or portions of Ecumenopolis". There's more repercussions than you realize. Sad part is that a death star would be a good Asteroid defense system if it wasn't for Tarkin.
Not mention to unphamtomable amount of resources that were lost.
Alderaan was an important trade planet, not only it was the cultural capital of the Galaxy, it was an EXTREMALEY IMPORTANT TRADE HUB. Imagine how the destruction of a place like Wall Street would affect the economy, now Imagine that in a galactic scale.
And let's not even talk about things like tge farms that are important to FEED the Galaxy, or the mines extract the raw material that your empire need to build and expand itself. And the psicolocal effect that can have in the population, like galvanizing a revolution movement or instability that is going to follow.
One single planet can be the corner stone of an entire empire, detroy said planet with your own weapons is completely counter productive.
I think the destruction of an entire planet is only warrant if we are talking about a planet that has been take over by a galactic ending event like.
The Tyranids, Chaos, the Necromorphs, the Aparoids, the Preythorns, the Contingency, The Unbiden, the Borg, the Blackwing virus, etc
In those intances, blowing up the entire planet may even be a nescesity to prevent those things to keeo spreading, but otherwise is not.
@@RexMK- True, need clarification about Exterminatus. I thought it involved unleashing Bio-weapons, Warp Weapons & Kinetic Bombardment with the intent to render the planet sterile rather than blow it up.
Just wiping out all life without blowing up the planet entirely is better imo .
Exterminatus is more like wiping out the surface of a planet rather than outright destroying it.
All biological and even metallic life is incinerated and the only thing left is a dead, molten world of ash and dust.
Well, that’s the main version of it, since there’s dozens of ways of Exterminatus-ing a world
@@joesoldchanneldeprecated5948 yeah. I'd rather develop a planet-wide ion cannon than a planet destroyer.
The destruction of Alderaan is essentially just the Empire saying:"Oh yeah, fuck humanity by the way."
I think if alderaan was never destroyed, the empire could have won. Hell, Even palpatine kinda knew that was bad
@@diamondonyt8397 Maybe.
Not “fuck humanity”. Empire was very pro-human. This is more like.
“We will kill every single terrorist and we don’t care how many citizens we must destroy to do it”
"Having a weapon is very different from actually using it." Mahathma Gandhi.
weird cause the empire was explicitly human supremacist
There is no way that anyone could still live on the surface of Jedda after this kind of destruction.
they couldn't LIVE, but they could survive
@@Swivelbot 'Not living' kind of rules out survival.
@@MyReligionIs2DoGood live metaphorically speaking
Mandolore was glassed by the empire they destroyed mandalore the same way the convanent would glass worlds in the halo universe but life still on mandalore still found a way to survive life always finds a way my friend though maybe not humans or aliens living on the surface life could still be thriving in other forms
Moments like these are terrifying, the amount of fear one sees as a result of these events. I think the closest parallel to this in another series would be Operation British and the other colony drops from Gundam. The aftermath is constantly there, on display, and even though 0083: Stardust Memory isn't my favorite, it does have this one haunting scene where someone who's been in space their whole life visits Earth, and is heading towards Australia, asks when they'll arrive, only to realize that they've been over Australia for a while, an ocean filled Crater as resulted from the Colony Drop. It's existentially terrifying to see such horrible aftermath, these are scars that cannot heal, and serve as a constant reminder of the atrocities that have taken place.
I mean, that's a healthy level of nonsense: A crater big enough to take out a significant portion of Australia wouldn't leave any life on Earth. The Chixiclub impact crater is roughly 200 kilometers across, which... it'd take a few minutes for a modern airliner to traverse. That impact was probably around 200 terratons. Conversely a deorbiting O'Neill cylinder would 'only' be around a gigaton in yield, probably spread out as it would break up on reentry.
@@basedeltazero714 fair, I'm not exactly sure how big the impact was, but certainly, tons of people died as a result of the impact
There is also the nuclear strike on Japan in which cities were obliterated in single blasts and for the people there the suffering was so great that they were lucky if they died instantly.
@@basedeltazero714 It still had fuel left on the Colony so that could have caused it
@@basedeltazero714 it wiped out half the population of Earth btw
"This is our death star"
"Why's it called a "death star?...... Are we the baddies?????"
This is the Life Star! Imagine how many lives will be spared when everybody is joining the Empire in justified fear from this battle station?
So here's a thought - given that we see the Geonosians hand Count Dooku the designs for the Death Star and then the Emperor, Vader, and what looks to be a younger Tarkin personally overlooking the initial construction of the base, how serious were they in alternatives, like Grand Admiral Thrawn's TIE Defender Program or others? There appears to be a personal bias in favor of Project Stardust.
Not very, I don't think. Once the TIE Defender lost access to the fuel depots, it was immediately canned since it would be too expensive to relocate to another system, or to rebuild the one on Lothal.
I'd wager other projects were to tide everything over until the Death Star was completed. And since Erso engineered the weakness, the Geonosians, Dooku, Palpatine, et. al didn't realize there was a flaw until after they blew it up.
IIRC, in the Rogue One novelization, Krennic has a moment of clarity as he sees something off from the schematics, and realizes it's flawed. Then amused as he realizes no one knows in his final seconds.
Actually, Vader was against the construction of the Death Star.
He, like many others, saw it as a waste of resources and a ineffective way of maintaining order, and he much preferred using smaller but more brutal actions to keep people on line.
@@bigj1905 “Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.”
Leading to the famous "I find your lack of faith disturbing" scene when choking the fool who said Vader was a idiot for following that 'hokey religion'. X3 And sometimes the debate The Forces opposite sides should be more treated as religion than super power or ability.
@@bigj1905 planet killers are a waste. Long range planetary bombardments would have spared the resources and could be used as bases.
@@daviddent5662 not everyone was a force user
One of the reasons why the Death Star II was built so quickly was because the Death Star had made the mining of the metal cores of Jeda, Scarif and Alderan not only feasible but easy
Can we all agree that Saw Gerrera appeared to have enough time to escape twice even considering how slowly he walks?
don’t think he wanted to seeing as he was basically a walking life support
Dude decided his fight was finally over
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@@BEZERKSTUDIOS718 save the world cheerleader
Dude was already dying homie lol he fought his entire life he wouldn’t have lived much longer anyways I assume
The Damage of Jedda in the Comics vastly exceeds what's depicted in the film in my opinion. There should just be a big crater not 1/4 of the planet gone. Which would also destroy it since you now have unbalanced object spinning.
Edit: Same thing with Scarif. What's show is the equivalent of a extremely large nuclear blast or asteroid strike in the movie, which on earth never boiled away the earth's oceans, yet for some reason the planet is completely devastated.
The 50 megaton Tsar Bomba threw Debris over 100,000 feet in the air and it's one hundred megaton version likely would have ejected material into space. Yet there is no devastated detonation site in Novaya Zemlaya.
That's because the Tsar Bomba device was an airburst device, IE it detonayed while still in the air, not when it impacted the ground. Detonation altitude was 4 km (13,000 ft).
@@DaveS_shuttle I get that. Point still stands. We have 20 megaton blasts that occurred underground with no sign on the surface and a just below the surface blast to test excavation here in Nevada that didn't really leave that much in the way of a crater. The blast depicted in the movies are a few hundred megatons tops. To destroy have the planet you would need 10s of thousands of gigatons.
@@imjashingyou3461 these death star hits drilled down into the planet though. they weren't surface detonations. they completely breached the crust of the planet. we only get to see the beginnings of the explosion in the movies.
@@baneblackguard584 That and these laser hits would create tons more heat than your standard Tsar Bomb. Seismic activity would've also caused mass eruptions on the volcanically active sections of Scarif. The planet would've quickly become a wasteland. Think Chicxulub impact, it was massive and caused the entire planet to light on fire. I imagine this but on a smaller scale from the Death Star's blast.
@@rebelgaming1.5.14 yeah the sudden super heating of that area in the mantle and subsequent expansion is what is causing all the destruction. This was actually a problem I had with lightsabers chopping off limbs. it wouldn't have just cut off the limb, it would have exploded and the stub would have flowered like popcorn.
I have been someone who tries to figure out the science of star wars for a long time. I have my own theories behind how superweapons like the Death Star and Starkiller Base actually operated.
Conventional wisdom suggests that both Death Stars produced beams that could utterly destroy planetary bodies, other youtubers have run those calculations and determined the energy required would be equivalent of SEVERAL main sequence stars.
I disagree with this.
While it's absolutely clear they had devastating explosive power I believe their purpose was to drill through a terrestrial planet and regardless of reaching the core or not it would impart massive amounts of heat energy into mantle and outer-core fluids. Effectively flash-boiling thousands of cubic kilometers of material near instantly.
Liquids heat when they expand. Heat something fast enough that has a relatively rigid container around it and you have an explosion. This could be why the first Death Star didn't fire on, or through Yavin. Power generation notwithstanding Yavin was a gas giant and had no liquid mantle to superheat or crust to violent expand outward. Beyond that, gravitational lensing would have, at best, subtlely bent the beam or at worst the beam discharge would have ignited the gases producing a fireball the size of a small nova.
Such a beam would require, by our standards, a GARGANTUAN amount of power. However, penetration, not explosive yield, is the key here...if straight up destruction would require 3+ stars like our sun...a drilling laser may only require 1-2 I cannot BEGIN to provide math to support this however, this is all just speculation based upon theory and observation.
Starkiller base works a little differently, at least in my humble opinion. I believe it is actually LESS powerful...since we know it only uses a single star to power it. However it does not produce a single beam, it produces 4 or more, and even if the Death Star only needed the power of 1 star each beam form Starkiller Base would only be 20% of the power.
It accomplishes the same destructive power through a much more efficient means. While the Death Star was a true "energy blast" Starkiller Base is NOT. I believe that it literally separates a star's plasma, contains it cohesively and launches it at speeds near or above the speed of light. Stars weigh an OBSCENE amount. 20% of the mass of our sun is still many times more than any rocky planet in our solar system. That amount of mass, electromagnetically being held together impacting a planetary body would annihilate it.
the death star used kyber crystals for power while starkiller base converted stars into dark energy to power its cannon
@@aobunau I believe that there is also a bit "hyperspace" science in there as well. The beams are a refraction of all that energy traveling through hyperspace bleeding into real space.
i think the starkiller's beams have nothing to do with hyperspace. they're shown to not take very long to travel from starkiller in the unknown regions to hosnian prime in the core. hyperspace travel, which is several times the speed of light, is shown to take hours or even days to make trips across the galaxy, and the beams travel halfway across the galaxy, which is 120,000 light years wide, in an instant. they just are ridiculously fast.
In Legends the Death Star was basically a giant overcharged particle accelerator that caused a matter-antimatter reaction in it's target.
Destroying Coruscant would have had a lot more impact than Hosnian Prime
Dew it my apprentice! Turn it to dust and your path to the dark side will be complete!
people would still get mad about it because coruscant is so beloved
It would undermine Palatine's own power since it's the seat of government and is essentially the core of the system.
Hosnian Prime was where a huge portion of the New Republic was located at when StarKiller Base fired at the system. The destruction of the entire star system wiped out most of the New Republic’s navy as well as most of the political staff. According to what little information I’ve been able to get ahold of, all of the New Republic’s T-85 X Wing Starfighters were lost (though there may have been small numbers operating elsewhere in the galaxy) That’s why the First Order decided to take out the system. Oh, and apparently the energy output of this strike was so huge that it caused what’s known as a hyperspace rip, which meant that the destruction was seen simultaneously across a good portion of the galaxy.
If coruscant was destroyed it would leave a huge power vacuum for other core world planets to try and become the new capital of the galaxy
fun fact: scariff was inspired by director Gareth Edwards saying "its Gareth" while eating food as someone was taking his coffee order. on the cup, they wrote "scariff"
Palpatine:" show these Rebels the power of the Empire"
Tarkin:" obliterates a very important planet"
Palpatine: "NEIN NEIN NEIIN"
I really enjoy how in Rogue One we get to see the planets explode in slow motion meanwhile in Episodes 4 and 7 it was just too fast
The destruction would have made more sense from a physical perspective if the Starkiller weapon had, ya know, lived up to it's name and targeted the Haznian Prime system's star, and destroyed *that* instead of somehow precisely striking several planets, and also ignoring the whole "laser traveling faster than the speed of itself." thing. I know about the galaxy gun, but that fired projectiles through hyperspace.
That would be so much cooler, it sends the star into a supernova and therefore destroys every planet in the system. A giant laser that just hits multiple planets at once is kind of lazy
There’s a weapon that does that in EU: it’s called the Sun Crusher and causes stars to go supernova, only thing is that it’s the size of a star fighter
I wish it was some kind of galaxy gun-suncrusher hybrid, basically launching the missile through hyperspace and causing the star to go supernova.
Starkiller base consumed stars to charge its weapon. It did kill stars. Also, it fired its weapon through a hyperspace tunnel. The show Rebels also touched on this idea, although in a different way. It's Star Wars, it's not supposed to be scientifically accurate anyway.
?? It’s called Starkiller base because it destroys stars to fuel itself.
Imagine the irony of the empire had created a Citidel type prison on the new lava lakes and islands of A holy Jedi planet 😂 I can just see it, “The Citidel is a fortress built just after the first Death Star test on Jedda, it’s a prison….for captured Jedi”
I wonder what would of happened if a squadron of Y Wings or similar bombers dropped their entire armament of proton bombs into Star Killer Bases super weapon.
I would guess something like when they do it to the Mandator IV siege weapon. Just with a little more kaboom.
I dont think it would have the same result as destroying the cooling thingy that poe blew up but it would still do a lot of damage. Would it be enough to stop it from firing? Probably not atleast not for long
Starkiller Base wouldn't appreciate it much
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What a bold and controversial move for Disney to destroy four worlds in the Hosnian system we have never even seen or heard about.
George also didn't care about showing Alderaan to us. It seemingly was an important planet.
@@RamielDerLinke Its still better than the Sequels. We are told that it’s the homeworld of Leía.
I maintain that in the prequels Naboo should have been Alderaan
@@tetraxis3011and in Force awakens, we are told it is the capital of the New Republic, home to billions. Your point?
@@commanderkronosi really don’t think anyone cares about this new republic that got absolutely obliterated by some empire mimic that came out of nowhere
Starkiller Base wasn’t just housed in a moon. It was housed in Ilum. Which makes it all the more sad that it was destroyed :(
Starkiller was the last name George Lucas had originally intended to use for Luke and Leia before changing their last name to Skywalker.
The name "Starkiller" has also been used for various subjects in the Star Wars universe, including the (Legends) secret apprentice of Darth Vader in The Force Unleashed series of video games aka Galen Marek.
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Nah, I get it. They were given the scraps of the Weapon that led to the destruction of their home planet to make a new home.
Almost like "reclaiming" or gaining some justice or something.
Star Killer base didn't absorb entire stars though, it drew energy from the star it was orbiting around for each shot. 🤔
If used enough, Starkiller Base would eventually absorb the entire star.
@@samdalseide5060 it was kinda used as like a quick cheat win. Wipe out all your enemies in 1 or 2 shots and never worry about it again
@@samdalseide5060 for the sake of conversation: (read that as "I'm not arguing, just talking") stars expand out when drained of fuel. They lose mass and thus their density decreases causing less gravitational pull. The likely result of repeated use of star killer base would be the star would expand and engulf the planet.
I'm not sure how much mass is used for each firing of the weapon, or how much mass a star needs to lose before expanding. There are stars that are larger than the diameter of Earth's position in our solar system relative to Sol. They expanded hundreds of thousands of years ago due to losing mass.
@@shadowshockwave looks like star killer base sucks up the stars matter faster than the star can eject it into space
It made no sense to me but the entire Starkiller base was a bad idea to begin with. I would never try to outdo the Deathstars but instead point out that something lesser are still as horrible. Maybe something the size of a super stardestroyer with a massive gun along its axis breaking the crust creating artificial super volcanoes perhaps? A handful of shots on a planet and it would be a dead world. A single shot would create an artifical ice age due to dust in the atmosphere. Do it right and it be just as scary as a Death Star.
These planets had it coming
I mean yeah, didn't you see how they were dressed?
If you're not braking the law, you don't have to worry!
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We don’t negotiate with terrorist.
We all have it comin' kid.
I would love a video about the standard living quarters inside of a Star Destoyer for a standard officer. Do you get your own room or do you have to share it? Is it more like a hotel room or a 1 bedroom apartment? Does it have it's own bathroom including a shower and kitchen? Does it have a living room and dinning room if you want to throw a death stick party? Are there nicer living quarters on a dredgenaut? Do stormtroopers get their own rooms or do they have to share rooms or sleep in barracks? What rank do you have yo be to have your own private sleeping quarters? Also do you get a window in your room? I like to stair into hyperspace like Darth Vader! I would assume captain quarters are much nicer and would also have a room with their own office too?
I have seen living quarters on much smaller cargo ships and they look like closets with a bed(s) in it and it certainly isn't the luxury I would want in interstellar travel!
YEEES finally, ive always wondered since i saw the Attacks on Scarif and Jedha in Cinema back in 2016
Thank you so much , as always 👌🏼
May the Force be with you
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In Alderaan's case.. "what planet???"
For Hosnia.. "where'd the System go???"
Jedda looked like Galactus had come and taken a bite outta half of it. Can't see at that point WHY ANYONE would stay and live there after that.
Faith. It is what built the Masada of the Jedi and it could be what restores it in the Disneyverse. Even if it never does Jedi and many other Force Sects relish trials and tests. Jedda is a good test when survival itself becomes a struggle every day.
Tourism. "Come and tour the first planet to be attacked by the Death Star!"
Can't speak for the first two but the last two basically had a lot of open space left over afterwards.
Alderaan was left as several floating rocks, all that was left behind was an asteroid field, it’s safe to say that the same was left behind in the Hosnian System but bigger.
Well atleast you can rent the space out to someone who needs it
0:27 Huge cyber crystals for the Death Star's construction were also featured in Rebels and the cancelled Clone Wars Utapau arc, btw.
Fun Fact: The blast impact of the Death Star on Scarif was supposedly equivalent to the Chicxulub impact on Earth which wiped out the dinosaurs.
Also I’m surprised that you didn’t include Kijimi which was destroyed by the Final Order’s Death Star-Destroyer
Hey Alan I haven't seen one of your videos in a long time and that's nothing personal. Generation tech is still one of the best channels out there. I love this video I'm really into geology and this was exceptionally up my alley and enjoyed it immensely thank you so much!
Btw, shout out to whoever made that thumbnail. That is art!
Star Wars likes to have moons almost as much as they like desert planets.
This is
NOT
a moon
3:33 Yeah no that's not the same event. You can see in the movie that the damage is much, much more limited. I'm not sure if the material is moving at the proper speed or not, but if it is, it's going to fall back down, as it's only moving a few kilometers per second. It's gonna make a _big fucking crater_ but ultimately only a small amount of mass is going to be ejected. Yield is likely in the petatons, which sounds like a lot (it is), but is a billion times less than the amount required to mass-scatter an Earthlike planet. This sounds somewhat reasonable given what we know about the death star's method of operations.
Survival on the surface is... conceivable. A sufficiently hardened shelter might survive the aerial and surface shockwaves, though a dense layer of ash would be cast over everything, resulting in a permanent impact winter. No ecosystem would survive.
8:44 Interesting example of the weird way SW weapons work in general: the beam not only doesn't superheat the air as it passes through, it actually seems to _smash_ the tower aside rather than vaporizing it, which would create an expanding plasma ball. I doubt that Scarif's oceans would be boiled from that alone - there's simply too much mass against too small a point. But yeah, more trench-like impact site aside (not shown), the effects would likely be similar. Total destruction of anything that is not, well, Star Wars levels of fortified, ecosystem collapse, small portion of the mass ejected into space.
Alderaan's destruction is a much more energetic event than the previous attacks.
... I mean, obviously, but _much_ more energetic. The planet is basically instantly scattered, with what is either bits of material or plasma expanding at a rate of thousands of kilometers per second, without any apparent directionality - the explosion does, indeed, seem to come from inside the planet. This is suggestive of the implied - at least in legends - nature of the Death Star relying on creating a cataclysmic chain reaction that causes the planet's own mass to sublimate into energy. Also something something the ring shockwave.
13:00 Funny enough, 'consuming a star' implies a much, much higher level of power than just... destroying planets. Like, it's so far beyond that it's not even funny. Just figuring out the technology that lets you pack a solar-mass into starkiller base is so far beyond anything we've seen in Star Wars... and then the total lifetime output of a star is... well, let's just say it's way more than enough to do the deed. The gravitation binding energy of the Earth is 2E32 Joules. The average energy output of the sun _per day_ is 3E31 joules. Which means that the explosion of Alderaan represented about a week's worth of solar output, or the annihilation of a millionth of it's own mass (which as I mentioned I think is how it works).
The energy of a sol-type star over its lifetime is 1E44 joules. You could mass scatter half a trillion planets with that kind of power. Its mass energy is E47 joules.
... supernovas can get into that range, but square-cube law. Maybe Starkiller base is that kind of inefficient due to diffraction, but... it doesn't _seem_ to be. It fires a beam perhaps a hundred kilometers across and when it impacts it is... maybe a thousand kilometers across. It doesn't scatter to be as wide as the system itself, as something like a Nicol-Dyson beam* would, but it remains more or less coherent. A solar-system scale doomblast would, admittedly, be pretty cool to look at but it somehow still feels out of scope even for the ridiculousness of Star Wars, as opposed to like... Lensmen. I'm pretty sure that was actually _in_ Lensmen.
However! The explosion caused by Starkiller base is far less energetic than Alderaan. Hosnian Prime is impacted, partially vaporized, and scattered by the shock. A few seconds after it does seem to 'explode from the inside' just like Alderaan, but this is still less energetic, with velocities of mid tens-of-kilometers per second, maybe low hundreds. Perhaps time is greatly dilated for our purposes, but it still seems...
I just think that it was kind of dumb to go with the 'lol it consumes stars' thing.
*A Nicoll-Dyson beam is a proposed method of building a dyson shell around a star to focus all of its energy into a laser beam, for when you have Dyson Sphere levels of resources and want to boil a planet, but don't want to go over there.
Great vid GenTech! Yes I would have liked to see the Alderaan asteroid field in the sequels at some point. Oh well.
5:50 ok im sold lmao
Great topic. Thank you.
Honestly i think what the death star did to scarrif was the equivalent of a super nuke
Every time I see anyone try to come up with "the empire were actually the good guys" I will always point to these genocides, that's not the people you'd want to defend
Well i mean they did reduce unemployment, rebel support, poverty and suffering to zero on alderaan. None of the other factions have made such efforts to help with these issues to this extent before.
No one cares about Jedha, and also it was a mining accident ;), Alderaan harbored rebels and was a cesspool for radical ideas made by greedy disgruntled senators, and if we really want to bitch it the Death Star was a glorified asteroid defense station that was meant for easy transition to militarize should a mass rebellion should occur ;)
@@falloutgamer347 Alderaan wasn't even struggling, if anything destroying alderaan woulda fucked up the galactic economy
@@falloutgamer347 Dude, it reduced EVERYTHING to zero.
The Empire is literally Space Nazis, they aren't the good guys.
Although they aren't as brutal as the First Order which was really just a reincarnated Empire.
Congratz for 700k! Keep it up!
That was very well done! Thank you!
Not as much as you might think with Alderaan and the 1st Death star, there would have been tons of highly refined metal and salvageable components that could easily be reused.
That thumbnail looked so sick
I always understood the Death Star weapon to be partially an anti-gravity pulse, which allows it to lift up so much so much crust without burning everything.
Well from what I’m understanding from Mike Zeroh, they have a new trilogy planed set like 40 years after The Rise of Skywalker. Who knows maybe they can visit these areas.
Never trust Mike Zeroh videos
You're trusting Mike Zeroh? He's a grifter.
@@RamielDerLinke I don't know what a grifter is, but it definitely describes that moron.
You said that Starkiller base was built into a moon, but isn't it confirmed that Star Killer base was made using Ilum? I don't think Ilum is a moon.
Yes, it’s confirmed in Jedi Fallen Order they started building Starkiller base as early as 5 years after Order 66.
What I hate about Starkiller base is the fact it needed a WHOLE star to function... like bruh... you know how much energy is in a star?? It should have been able to do that about 20 times over. Look at the Star Forge.. it functioned off of that one start for 1000s of years (I know it doesn't have a super laser, but still.) Like.... I dont see how a weapon that small in scale to its star.. could just.. take it all. Its odd.
You're not wrong 🤷♂️
It didn’t need a whole Star, it needed enough energy to destroy a system. It doesn’t suck up the entire Star, or else the base wouldn’t function. Maybe watch the movie instead of mindlessly criticizing stuff just because other people do it.
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Personally I doubt the Imperial citadel on Scariff survived the Death Star's blast. Sure, it didn't take a direct hit, but Jyn and Cassian couldn't have gotten very far from the tower when we saw the shockwave reach them, and we saw on Jedha that even at a distance from the point of impact, a shot from the Death Star could still cause significant damage.
Didnt they somewhere confirm that Starkiller base is acctualy Illum seen in the clone wars, as multiple padawans took on their kyber crystal quest, with the guidance of Yoda and Ashoka?
Yes and they started converting it as early as 5 years after Order 66 per the Jedi Fallen Order game.
The damage to Jedha in the comics looks far more destructive than what should result from the blast seen in Rogue One. The movie's blast looks like it would result in an enormous crator, not enough to peel literal chunks out of the moon off. There's certainly no enormous chunks featured in the movie explosion ejecta. There would need to have been a second, significantly larger explosion, once the scene ends, to account for that.
Imagine Mustafar with a gaping hole on one side and ocean with some lava in it on the other side, that is what scarif looked like post rogue 1
You technically only covered 'canonical' material. The Death Star had a few test firings before in the books but they were quite in depth and I liked the way they were framed. Also that you showed us in detail that Starkiller Base wasn't just another Death Star it was in fact an attempt to further the range. You didn't mention how like a Sith Lightsaber it also was using a type of focusing lens that is what allowed it to destroy entire star systems but most people don't so it's not a big deal. I do love that JJ made a giant lightsaber that used the long argued superior style of Tràkata but most just likened it to a weaker Death Star.
in EU, you had Project Dark Sabre which was the prototype for Death Star, just Giant Light Sabre with out the Base of the Death Star.
I really enjoyed this one. Did you do a video about what happened to Endor after the 2nd Death Star was destroyed? And did happen to Awven after the first Death Star was destroyed.
nothing happenned after first death star
Nothing happened to endor because apparently all of the debris from the second death star went into hyper space and ended up on kef bir where it still is in episode 9. Does this make sense? No. Am i surprised they came out with such a dumb excuse for it? Once again, no.
Also most of it seems to be intact even though the entire station blew up
@@falloutgamer347 It was operational but not fully built.
I need to know what happened after that cave scene. That trooper looked like a good soldier.
Riddle me this... if Star Killer Base's energy beam moved faster than light then how can it be seen moving? If it's based on the plasma of a star and, therefore, is not light, then how can it travel FTL without hyperspace? If it's not traveling FTL and there was just one light year between SKB and its victims, then how can it strike within mere moments? Fun fact, the average distance between stars (neighbors) is about 4-5 lightyears. SKB being far from the core striking at core worlds might take upwards of 20 years *if* that energy beam was moving at the speed of light, but it isn't by the fact we can see it moving. So like 1000 years to strike a target or more? Such a dumb and flawed concept.
Something, something, something, Dark Side.
Apparently with where Starkiller Base is located in comparison to Takodana and Hosnian Prime, Finn shouldn't have been able to see it. So Abrams (I think) handwaved it as being that powerful that it just rips the fabric of Space/Time.
Dude it’s Star Wars
Considering that the size of the Milky Way is 100 million light years I think the numbers would be giant
@@Bobzilla_Returns 100 million lightyears! *Dr Evil laugh*
@@Skorpeonismyrealname ... a tunnel of force will energy and hyper matter. Most likely the initial seeing it fire was it speeding up to relativistic speeds. And since it can’t go into full hyper space it will use that and a few other things possible gravity warping as well.
Most of the tech exist there and it should fix a few plot holes.
Was just the Death Star eliminating all of a planet problems
Yes, it reduced Alderan’s crime rate to 0
If it traveled faster than the speed of light, how did the inhabitants see it approaching?
They probably saw it as it was moments earlier. Like how we see stars not as they currently are, but as they were in the past.
@@dinosaurus4189 That doesn't work if the object is moving as fast as its projected image.
@@dinosaurus4189 if the beam is faster than light, it would have arrived before the first images of itself.
7:05 As a Londoner, I can't unsee that this is Canary Wharf tube station!
Starkiller base wasn’t housed in a moon, it was an entire planet (illum)
Yes!!!!!!! I love anything having to do with the Death Star
With star killer base, it needs stars to fire. Doesn’t that mean it can only fire two times?
9:09 I think it's safe to assume due to the dust cloud visible from space that
A: any flora on the planet were choked out
B: Any fauna then starved
I don't know enough to say what the effects of a massive energy transfusion of an atmospheric system but that's probably not great either
I think the reason why star killer base needed stars to shot because ilum the planet is low on kyber crystals so the sun is a backup for it but it made it even stronger than before death star and longer range expect it takes a bit of time to eat it
What would have happened if Tarkin had fired through the Yavin Gasgiant to target the moon hiding behind?
Not sure of the aftermath but i dont think it be even worth it. Trying to hit something that small behind a gasgiant would be next to impossible.
It'd be Catastrophic I imagine, igniting all that gas would just create a yavin sized explosion
@@lethalspaceduck3800 So it would be an efficient way to destroy Yavin 4 before the X-wings destroy the Death Star?
@@arthurbriand2175 and themselves. You realize the deathstar was just as close as the moon is right?
@@lethalspaceduck3800 who says this gas must be explosive?
I would’ve imagined that if the beams are powerful and fast enough to destroy a planet that they wouldn’t just stop at the core but slice right through and come out the other side and keep going until it dissipates.
Conceivably, yes. But they probably tune the superlaser to a point where it atomizes the planet without cutting clean through it.
I am now officially down the rabbit hole with this one video.
The Empire: Names Lots of things alluding to killing Stars.
Also The Empire: Never shoots at a single Star.
This frustrates me to no end, if you want to destroy a solar system, destroy the star it orbits.
To me, the Star Destroyers equipped cannons that can fire superlaser makes more sense to me. Because we all know Star Destroyers are not the waste of resources and money.
P.S: The Dark Lords of the Dolphins would like to know your location, Alan.
Who’s Alan?
@@davidordaz5251
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@@theparrishshow9803 Alan's Charlies's brother.
No, the amount of energy needed, makes the Death Star make WAY more sense... Also, the Death Star is from a GOOD written set of movies, with actual plot, and good characters. Where the TERRIBLE Star Destroyers are from a terribly written, directed, nightmare of a trilogy...
I wonder why the emperor wanted to built the death star in the first place
Tarkin doctrine, Sith lightning to brain, and autocracy
You want and actual reason or simply a funny one like he wanted more open space for his Star Destroyers?
@@GenerationTech that makes sense for the first Death Star, but for the 2nd Death Star I’d say Palpatine developed a death stick addiction and that influenced his decision making
It was a defensive measure against the vong, to destroy the world ships of their invasion force that no other weapon could touch.
Tarkin upon adopting comand of the weapon applied it to his tarkin doctrine of keeping the galaxy in check.
A weapon so powerful that its mere existence would discourage any possibility of rebellion. Didn't really work as he wanted but full credit to his ambition and engineering corps.
That Jedha bit was some TOP NOTCH film making.
"I felt a great disturbance of the force, as if there were millions of voices crying in terror 😢😭 but they're suddenly silenced, 🔕 something terrible 😢has happened." Ben Kenobi.
Trawn would be pissed of by the destruction of alderan
that is straight facts
Even Palpatine was shocked
Sequels trying to one up the og trilogy by destroying more planets
Ngl the scene was better and more impactful. Cinematography on point
One of the best!!!! Hope your shoulder will heal from the light saber
Palpatine was PISSED when he found out what Tarkin did. The PR fallout was a nightmare to deal with; not many people bought the "mining disaster" claims and even people who loved Papa Palpatine hated him covering for Tarkin.
I think Scarif is still a Wasteland after the Attack. I think even if the Laser didnt reach the Planet's Core it will still hit the Crust or it Blast through it due to the DS Angel to the Planet with another Hole at the other Side of the Planet.
In that "mild" DS Case , all Life will still be erased sadly
Just My Opinion , if u got a different, feel free to enlighten me , i can be wrong oc😊
Tbf the planet was protected by a shield, so the chances of the beam penetrating the crust and making a hole on the other side would be slim, so it may be safe to say the damage would only effect at least if you’re lucky, only a chunk of the planet, and at most half of the planet being affected by the blast radius, along with global issues. With that in mind there’s a lot to consider with Scarif and slightly more optimism can be considered (that and also I like Scarif so take my input with a grain of salt).
Question about the Death Star strike on Scarif: Was the planetary shield still operating when the Death Star fired on the planet? It seemed to be still on in the movie, as they Rebels couldn't send reinforcements down or call back the few ships left on the ground. While the planetary shield wouldn't stop the Death Star on even a low setting, blasting through it should have weakened the beam if not caused it to miss it's target - which seems to be the case because it was off by just a few hundred feet in altitude for a direct, if sideways, strike on the ground base.
Did Tarkin deliberately fire at a shielded planet to show, that at even low power, that planets with strong planetary shields would be no match for his new toy? Sounds like something he and the Emperor would do.
i thought it was breached once one of the ISD's fell onto the shield. not being too strong sw side idk if that would be considered a strong shield or a weak shield. or just plot
I've never been this early to a video!
It's funny how the Earth is a planet with all the biomes and climates, and in Star Wars every planet is 1 minecraft biome
The Sequel Trilogy had potential, but bad direction ruined them.
Na if Lucas had say maul woulda been the main villan
@@itzdenrii-6521 ? Maul was dead for almost 40 years before EP 7
@@blackychan311 I heard his left foot survived, and it was super angry. 🦶
What about Kijimi being destroyed by a Star Destroyer that had a Death Star like weapon that destroyed the planet?
Fun fact about hosnian primes destruction originally it was supposed to be coruscant but lucasfilm wanted to preserve the Legacy planet and therefore did not allow JJ Abrams to proceed.
With how many levels courasant had and perhaps it’s planetary shield, courasant might be able to just barely survive a shot from the Death Star. Ofc most of its inhabitants would still die but it might be possible.
Everyone talking about the video:
Me: Damn, homie's got some sick lightsaber flourishes
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that’s a bit too extreme, I’d say Geetsly’s is a bit better when it comes to these kind of videos, but I see your point. One of the best star wars channels, yes
I have theory why our boy palps wanted a death star cause when palps was a little boy he always wanted to be in a giant space ball with a super laser then a few years later what palps wanted became a reality
Is nobody going to talk about that awesome Sierra Snowboard back there? Man, I miss those days... But I do ride a Thrive Renegade now to make up for it. 🤣🤘
Tarkinäs arrogance and the arrogance of the Empire made them think the galaxy would be cowed by the blatant destruction of Alderaan.
Starkiller Base firing the slowest laser ever... But still fast enough to reach its targets within a very short timespan instead of tens of thousands of years...