Did Palpatine TKed the Lusankya?

Who believes in the feat?

Not sure, I'm actually leaning towards no.

Heretics, the lot of you. uhuh

Why don't you address Temp's argument, then, Ell?

To be fair, he discussed it with me privately afterwards.

Isn't his argument over how a sentence is phrased and then he backs the really illogical idea that Palpatine scoured a hole in the planet and dumped the ship in there rather then just having his technicians do it when then the logical stance is that Palpatine simply wiped the minds of the people who knew about the ship? :/

My argument is that an official source states he buried it and the feat is quite appropriate for a malignantly narcissistic megalomaniac to do something that grandiose.

People are trying so hard to give Palps more feats to support he theory that he's the most powerful ever. Problem is, he doesn't need more feats for that supposition to be true, and certainly not ones where mental gymnastics and guessing needs to be done for it to be true. The simple reality is this, we have a direct quote saying the Engineers buried it, yet somehow people are willing to take a illogical leap that the above statement isn't true, and a more ambiguous one is? Sorry, I can't get behind that line of thinking.

You understand that buried has many connotations, right?

Like if someone buries someone in a debate they didn't literally dig a hole and dump the body of their opponent into it.

:/

Originally posted by KuRuPT Thanosi
The simple reality is this, we have a direct quote saying the Engineers buried it

What?! Why is this even being entertained?

I find it a bit far fetched Sidious buried it with TK, lal.

Originally posted by UCanShootMyNova
You understand that buried has many connotations, right?

Like if someone buries someone in a debate they didn't literally dig a hole and dump the body of their opponent into it.

:/

Ah, I see. Tread lightly, for below there are spoilers:

Spoiler:
the ship was literally buried.

Originally posted by UCanShootMyNova
YWhat?! Why is this even being entertained?

It's apparently from an in universe source. 😬

Originally posted by The_Tempest
My argument is that an official source states he buried it and the feat is quite appropriate for a malignantly narcissistic megalomaniac to do something that grandiose.

yet we have an official source stating his engineers accomplished the feat. The statement you're relying on is rather ambiguous and could be taken many different ways, including, that the engineers did indeed do it and he just hide it from everybody. That isn't a contradiction imo. The more logical view to take imo, is the one that is spelled out very clearly... The engineers did.

The quote which states the engineers buried it came out earlier than the one which states Palpatine buried it. It's a retcon.

There is NO Recton... The later quote could still fit nicely and easily with the earlier one. It didn't recton anything. It was the most clearly view of what happened. You keep acting like the later quote was a recton, and it was nothing of the sort. You're desperately trying so hard to prove Sids is the most powerful, you dismiss what is directly in your face. You're coming from a position of bias, and as we know, that is not a sound position to be coming from. The simple reality is this, we have a direct quote saying it was engineers... you'd like to throw that out for a more ambiguous quote... Don't buy it.

Originally posted by The_Tempest
Ah, I see. Tread lightly, for below there are spoilers:

Spoiler:
the ship was literally buried.

It's apparently from an in universe source. 😬

Cool. Please show me where it's stated the quote is meant to be taken literally.

Yes, and it's an alternative that actually makes sense.

Originally posted by Azronger
The quote which states the engineers buried it came out earlier than the one which states Palpatine buried it. It's a retcon.

Or the quote doesn't literally mean he buried it. :/

I mean, I don't get what's so hard about this. The engineers buried the ship beneath the surface. Sidious burying it with his darkside power is referencing the telepathy he used to wipe everybody's memory of it. It's not that difficult of a concept.

Originally posted by UCanShootMyNova
Cool. Please show me where it's stated the quote is meant to be taken literally.

Yes, and it's an alternative that actually makes sense.

Did you not read the spoiler?

You've actually been unable to demonstrate how this doesn't make sense lol.

Originally posted by UCanShootMyNova
I mean, I don't get what's so hard about this. The engineers buried the ship beneath the surface. Sidious burying it with his darkside power is referencing the telepathy he used to wipe everybody's memory of it. It's not that difficult of a concept.

Someone doesn't know the definition of "bury".

Why would Sidious bury the ship himself when he has an entire Engineer Corps to do it for him? Like you understand that for the ship to have been buried beneath the planet and for the surface of that area to have retained its structural integrity they would have needed to reinforce the site it was buried in with various structural supports in case the ship were to cave in on itself. Either under the weight of the ground above it or simply because after years its own structural integrity had failed. The only other option would be to fill the entirety of the ship beforehand with some sufficiently dense material. It's not as simple as "Heu. Heu. I make big hole. I put ship in hole. I put dirt back in hole. Heu. Heu." Then there's also the issue of smoothing out the area where the ship was buried and rebuilding the area above it given the entirety of Coruscant's surface is occupied by buildings in one form or another. Granted Sidious could have sealed the spot off and claimed it as private property for the Empire but then why would he go to the effort of erasing everybody's memory of the thing only to leave a suspicious bare patch on the surface that people will speculate about?

You're making this more complicated then it needs to be.