The Death Star: An Inside Job?

[Josh]

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This is very thought-provoking. I've always been suspicious of the official account.

[Hotfoot]

Every time he said "Aldebraan" I winced.

[Batman]

Not to mention the little factoid that the failed shots weren't made by Wedge, but by Red Leader. Quality research there guys but what can you expect from Imperials?

[Cynical Cat]

What do expect from a truther? I'm just surprised that he didn't think KDY was behind everything.

[frigidmagi]

There's also the fact that Han Solo is a public figure. There's no mystery about that freighter.

[Josh]

Han wasn't a well-known public figure at that point. He was an obscure smuggler.

Personally I wouldn't be surprised at all if KDY didn't have a hand in things. Death Star production cut seriously into the Star Destroyer budget. I mean, how many millions of AT-ATs could've been made with all the metal that was poured into that machine? Right? Right?

[frigidmagi]

No one knew Vader was Luke's father then either. By the time that's common knowledge, Han is a public figure. Not that you couldn't make that work in the theory. He did marry Leia after all.

[Batman]

Except...that video called Leia Leia Organa Solo, clearly indicating it was made sometime after her marriage to Han, at which point, yes, he was?

[Josh]

Damn, you fuckers are fast.

I will now utilize truther tactic number three and ignore contradictory evidence while raising more questions.

See, what's always gotten me was the perfectly circular nature of the explosion, which is more suggestive of a controlled detonation. And that ring that comes out of the explosion? You can find footage where that ring clearly doesn't come out, indicating that the footage has been substantially altered.

What is the Emperor hiding?

[Batman]

Depends on when that video was made. If it's past Dark Empire, he's not hiding a thing on account of finally being dead for keeps.

I'd have to run a lot more analysis than I care to (meaning I can't be arsed to do it) but off hand I fail to see what's unusual about the explosion of a spherical space station being blown apart by a reactor at its center going kablooey being spherical.
Now the ring is certainly problematic, but feel free to explain how the Alliance having somehow planted explosives in the Death Star accounts for that any better than the official version.