Originally posted by PBR_StreetGang:
A few other things that irritate me.
The Empire had piss poor OPSEC. I mean, they let the architectural designs for the most secret battle station in the universe get stolen...twice. Then take the command cruiser. Obi Wan just turns off the tractor beam. No password needed, no PIN number...nothing. More on that later. And how the hell do Han, Leia, Luke, Chewie, and R2 get on Endor in the first place? "It's an older code, Lord Vader, but it checks out".
Huh? An older code? But it still checks out? It's either the code or it isn't. And no radio call to the surface to say "Hey, y'all get that parts and technical crew that we let through 30 minutes ago?". Nice security.
Then there's the X-wing pilot that crashes his fighter into the bridge and takes out a command ship. That ship was probably 5 KM long or so. Couldn't find a spot in there to put a secondary helm? Nope. Crash into that thing and the whole thing drops like a rock. I could go on...
This post was edited on 6/19 8:16 PM by PBR_StreetGang
About the "command ship". It was The Executor, the first of the "Super" class of Star Destroyers built by the Empire. The first was a gift to Vader by Palpatine. It is estimated at 19 Kilometers long, not 5. There were secondary bridges in the thing, but with the shield generators destroyed, Akbar(AKA Captain Fish Head) saying "Concentrate all fire on that Super Star Destroyer!", Rebel fighters crashing into it and it just being attacked they must have been destroyed, or so I'm assuming.
For those wondering "With a ship that's 19 KM long, why couldn't it shoot down the fighters?" The answer is they are small, one man fighters and Star Destroyers are built for ship to ship combat, not starfighter defense. As far as the armament goes for the Executor SSD they are as follows:
Armament
Over 5,000 turbolaser batteries and ion cannons[3]
2,000 turbolaser batteries[12]
2,000 heavy turbolaser batteries[12]
250 heavy ion cannons[12]
500 point-defense laser cannons[12]
250 heavy concussion missile batteries[5][7]
40 Phylon Transport Q7 tractor beam projectors[7]
Complement
144 various TIE series starfighters[5]
TIE/ln starfighters[4]
TIE/sa bombers[4]
TIE/In interceptors[4]
TIE/D Defenders[13]
TIE/ad starfighters[14]
Darth Vader's TIE Advanced x1[15]
200 miscellaneous combat and support ships[7]
Gamma-class ATR-6 assault transports[14]
Lambda-class T-4a shuttles[4]
Y-85 Titan dropships[2]
3 prefabricated garrison bases[5][6]
Hundreds of heavy walkers[5]
All Terrain Armored Transports (30)[7]
All Terrain Scout Transports (50)[6][16]
All Terrain Personal Transports[6]
Various speeder bikes and other ground vehicles[5][6]
Supplies for 300,000 individuals[7]
50,000 heavy concussion missiles[5]
The ships were incredibly expensive to build, and fierce competition arose between Kuat Drive Yards and the Fondor shipyards. Fondor eventually won the contract to build the Executor but in secret, an exact duplicate, sister ship was being built simultaneously at KDY. All the expenses of the second "Executor" were attributed to the original to keep up the guise as only 1 was being built. The second ships eventual name was "Lusankya" and eventually buried on the surface of Coruscant and served as Palpatine's personal escape craft in case of emergency.
