he said planning to build didn't he? not create. "Our designs" doesn't mean they actually designed it, its simply a sentence showing posession. Not to mention Dooku took them so now who knows where they'll end up. But I must say, the Death Star looks a lot like the center pod of the Trade Federation battle ships (like when Kenobi flies past them at night).
The Geonosians designed it (obviously) and they may have even built it, contracted by the Empire of course, at least GL said it could have happened that way on the AOTC dvd commentary...
Oh BTW, in Hyperspace Pablo Higaldo said "Not that many scenes involve the Death Star." He all but confirmed it's apperance.
Spoiler reports say that it'll appear in the beginning stages of construction at the end of the film, as Vader, Sidious, and Tarkin watch over it on a Star Destroyer Bridge.
And yes, of course those Tarkin pics were real, no one would waste the time to do that kinda of a make-up job for no reason, why do you think LFL had the one pic (the one that looked more like Cushing) removed from several sites?
nobody never said they built it , we were talking about who designed it. But as you said Poggle did say planning to build so if they plan to build it they must have a design to work after too. Dooku cleverly took those design away from Poggle, so now they are in the hands of the Palpatine.
So I think the empire built the DS out of a Genosian design. And I dont think we will see too much about DS in EP III at all. We saw the plans for it in AOTC so there we have one of the links between OT and PT
that would make sense. its along the lines of the EU explanation, which by accident or not is cool for me since I think the EU explanation rocks. I would like an explanation of whether or not Tarkin actually claims design "rights" or whatever. We do know that Palpatine likes to allow secret plans to fall into whoever's hands he wants (see ROTJ) and allows them to think its there own idea. Good explanation finit.
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Consctructed, not designed. An imperial officer was overseeing construction in ROTJ too.that was gonna be my next post about the matter, all I am trying to do though is tie up some links of what we know about the OT and PT. Death Star is one of the things that tie the trilogies together so peopel have different view on it all and it is great to hear and debate for or against a view.
in the OT thread I gave a very detailed account on how the EU description might be at least somewhat based on an idea of Lucas' for the meer fact that it has appeared so often and the continuity of the idea has been closely monitored by Lucasfilm. As well as the fact that it appeared in the novel Rogue Planet that was written after Lucasbooks was more closely and personally supervised by lucas, including all plot points that may impact the prequels.
I see they have closed that thread because I was accused of starting an EU/Film debate. Which I wasn't, I was trying to give the guy an informed answer that combined the two continuties to show how it could be tied into the film, should Lucas be interested in the idea. So I don't get the same flack here for mentioning Lucas' involvement in the novels I'll include a little disclaimer---when I say that Lucas is supposed to ok the novels/comics, I assume its known he doesn't read them (although he apparently at lease flips through them since Aayla Secura was picked from her comics appearance) so I don't include that statement. The involvement Lucas does have though, and this is from the Star Wars Insider Magazine for anybody about to blast me, is that all PLOTS (that means summary, not actual text from the finished product) must be okayed by him, giving him the chance to change anything he doesn't like. As was pointed out in the closed thread, he vetoed the death of Ackbar. So when I say they may integrate the origins for the Death Star and Tarkin's involvement, I'm sayin that IF he okayed the novel Rogue Planet, he hopefully gave them a little insight into the Death Star so that it could be included and serve as hype for its appearance in AOTC. Whether or not its BASED on his own idea of the Death Star will be proven or disproven in episode III. Beyond that, we all can believe it was created by the flying monkey's from Wizard Of OZ for all I care. Everybody just needs to lighten the F up. We all know the two continuities exist, if it makes it into III, it will be canon. Period. because it will be said on film. This is my hope for III, and I don't want anymore crap about this.