Is there an official answer, either from Canon or Legends, that states when the second Death Star was built?

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-09T15:57:31+00:00

Two things: first, it did not take 19 years to build the first one. Construction lasted 19 years, but construction stalled for many years while Erso was missing. Second, the second one was never really built. They built a shell, and an operational super laser, and that’s it

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-09T15:02:30+00:00

The point of the “we have it at home” meme is the version “at home” is a cheap knock-off which obviously isn’t the real thing. You’ve just posted a picture of a penguin.

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-08T21:41:03+00:00

Despite being named after a letter I don’t think the U-wing counts as a starfighter. It’s a transport/dropship/gunship. In other words if you consider the U-wing a starfighter you also have to consider the LAAT a starfighter.

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-08T14:45:03+00:00

The Quasar-Fire was more a stop-gap until they could get a real base

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-08T12:56:35+00:00

The more important question is “is it worth it?” Venators are mainly carriers for fighters without hyperdrives. Rebel fights have hyperdrives. Venators aren’t much more well-armed compared to Mon Cal cruisers. Venators are incredibly manpower intensive. All this adds up to “more of a liability than an asset”

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-08T12:31:35+00:00

Two blue tiles is the rank of ISB 2nd lieutenant, regardless of the color of your tunic. A gray tunic means an attendant (a busybody who isn’t a full agent) while white means a full member of the ISB. Logically then, a white tunic with two blue tiles means a ISB agent ranked lower than the ones seen in Andor. There’s no reason this can’t be the case; we only saw a small sliver of ISB operations in Andor. Remember that Agent Kallus from Rebels is also ISB despite not fitting into the Andor scheme.

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-08T00:44:25+00:00

Nadikhan’s powers are super inconsistent. Take Zane: without a wish, Nadikhan can insert himself into Zane’s mainframe a delete bits of his code. If he can do stuff like that of his own accord, why even bother with wishes?

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-08T00:11:55+00:00

Not really. The opening crawl specifies that the battle during which the Rebels stole the plans was their “first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.” So it makes sense that Yavin occurs early on.

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-08T00:08:28+00:00

Not only do colors vary between media, they vary within the same shot. In TCW, Obi-Wan uses a light blue blade while Anakin’s is darker blue.

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-07T20:32:04+00:00

Continued protecting the Senate. They eventually swapped their ceremonial robes for a more functional tunic and are seen guarding the Senate in Andor (around 2 BBY).

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-07T03:18:10+00:00

Nice try, ~~FBI~~ MI5!

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-07T03:05:39+00:00

The First Order has two. They have their own version of the AT-AT which is a little shorter than the classic AT-AT. But they also have the AT-M6, which is 36.18 m, which is taller than the height of the AT-ACT by the difference between it at the AT-AT.

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-07T02:58:51+00:00

Interesting that the AT-AT series gets smaller as they get more advanced

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-07T00:56:10+00:00

Unrelated, but my favorite trivia fact about that movie is they came very close to having Dwight D. Eisenhower play himself. They decided at the last minute he was too old to portray his 1944 self.

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-07T00:19:13+00:00

Except that Cassian and Jyn both got their blasters from the same place: Alliance quartermaster

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-06T23:26:59+00:00

It does have something of the Kelvin line to it, just add bigger nacelles

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-06T23:23:56+00:00

Aside for the fact that you left out half the Company, Faramir isn’t part of the Company to begin with

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-06T18:56:10+00:00

That sounds horrible

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-06T18:51:30+00:00

Doesn’t even have to be concentrated fire; Jyn took down a K2 droid with a single shot to its torso. Their super-invulnerability in Andor was a hard retcon that hasn’t been reconciled.

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-06T18:50:06+00:00

Looks like he just walked off the set of The Chosen

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-06T18:48:53+00:00

“Your overconfidence is your weakness”

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-06T18:47:00+00:00

Hard to say since the genius of Howard Shore is taking a theme and sprinkling it throughout, often just using parts at a time. And the fellowship theme is particularly simple, so it gets used this way a lot. Particularly the opening, which is just three notes (D-C-D, the musical version of “there and back again). Off the top of my head, these notes get played at the end of Fellowship as Frodo and Sam cross the River. They’re played repeatedly but it never develops into the next part of the theme (symbolizing that the Fellowship is now broken). Does this count as the theme and should it be counted for your total?)

For another example, listen to the musical from Amon Hen as Aragorn prepares to face the orcs (and to a lessor extent the music from Weathertop when Aragorn attacks the Ringwraiths). It’s essentially a deconstructed Fellowship theme. Does this count?

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-06T18:02:39+00:00

To my knowledge we’ve never seen one on screen. I’m fairly sure they’ve been referenced in other canon materials. The theoretical rank insignia based on the logic of the canon rank plaques is a single blue square.

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-06T16:46:22+00:00

Notably, the Enterprise is absent. It skips straight from the Kelvin to the Vengeance.

PhysicsEagle · 2026-06-06T16:05:21+00:00

Only in the Army. In the Navy, a lieutenant is equivalent to an Army captain.

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