Originally posted by Cascador
It's actually another reason...a stupid reason which has nothing to do with the story why there are two death stars.
George Lucas didn't know star wars was going to be a hit, so to be sure he blew the death star up so it wouldn't have an open ending cause he had more films in mind. If he was sure he could make ESB and ROTJ than the deathstar would not have been blown up and always be there to the end of ROTJ...it would just be the same death star, which would be cool to the story in my opinion. ANH would have been darker.
I agree with this
Originally posted by Cascador
It's actually another reason...a stupid reason which has nothing to do with the story why there are two death stars.
George Lucas didn't know star wars was going to be a hit, so to be sure he blew the death star up so it wouldn't have an open ending cause he had more films in mind. If he was sure he could make ESB and ROTJ than the deathstar would not have been blown up and always be there to the end of ROTJ...it would just be the same death star, which would be cool to the story in my opinion. ANH would have been darker.
Lucas made the decision to move the Death Star to ANH from ROTJ. His original plan was to have it only in ROTJ, but he felt that the ANH story lackededge, so he pushed it forward, so you're semi-right, and there would have been no ending to ANH if the Death Star hadn't blown up, and I don't think it would have sold as well.
My personal opinion is that for teh first one, they concentrated on the superstructure, building housing, bathrooms, dinette sets, bottomless pits, et cetera. When putting living quarters into a bulding, it takes almost ten years. For a small moon, it would take even longer. The weapon was then added as a secondary feature. The second death star was fairly rough and hollow, with its updated weaponry being its prinmary function. Because it didn't have the finishing of the first one, it was done much more quickly.
Originally posted by tpaquinMy personal opinion is that for teh first one, they concentrated on the superstructure, building housing, bathrooms, dinette sets, bottomless pits, et cetera. When putting living quarters into a bulding, it takes almost ten years.
Bathrooms - havent you ever wondered how your average storn trooper takes a piss? 😛
Dinettes - for cozy little dinners before enforcing your rep as the scurge of the galaxy... 😆
I agree with ctsketch, cascador and Bilb on this subject!
Furthermore, I think that the Emperor was into fast delivery of masses of buildingmaterial and pushing the building-time to superspeed sessions.
(As for EU back-up, just read/look at Shadows o.t Empire-comic/book).
And also to understate this explanation, go and watch ROTJ again and watch the very first scene as Vader boards the Death Star.
Oh and ahhhhh to add; When you design and build something for the very first time, it goes with all the errors, breaks and all the little delays and you learn from it.
It takes a long road before you get to your first end-product.
When you know how to build something(you've done before), it's much easier to do so and you can update a little bit in much and much less time.
To give an example> look at the founding of the first car, look at the making of the very first SW-movie etc. etc. etc.