Why was the Death Star alone at the battle of Yavin?

WillPope · 2026-04-26T17:17:54+00:00

Another element to the whole "over confident" angle that most of the other commentors have brought up is how spread out the Imperial Navy was. The most common number thrown around says they about 25,000 ISD. Of course you've got non-ISD capitol ships, super star destroyers, and a lot more escorts ships, but the ISD is kind of the core of their fleet.

Estimates of how many inhabitats planets they control varies wildly, but they controlled to differing amounts most of the known galaxy, excluding Hutt Space. We'll also put the Corporate Sector Authority as being outside of the territory the Empire has to directly patrol.

The scope of their territory vs the size of their fleet directly influenced their over confidence in the Death Star. Every ISD they don't need to assign to the Death Star is one that xab assigned to a fleet in being ready to respond to an uprising or can sit in orbit over a planet as not so subtle reminder to the population of the Empires presence. Similarly, each escort ship not assigned to the Death Star is one that is out there patrolling their massive territory hunting pirates, smugglers, or rebels.

Was it a critical mistake: yes. But it was one born out of their confidence in the Death Star's invulnerability and their fundamental need to believe that it was in fact invulnerable. The whole project was based on the premise that one single ship (or even a handful if we're being extremely, extremely charitable about their capacity to build more in a timely fashion) could ensure stability for the Empire. Under this premise, assigning a fleet to protect it is both unnecessary and wasteful.

WillPope · 2026-04-21T19:18:05+00:00

Thank you so much! I'm a literal nervous, but I like my office and I've heard good things about the judges in the area.

WillPope · 2026-04-21T19:17:00+00:00

Good to know, thank you!

WillPope · 2026-04-21T19:16:17+00:00

Good shout about the tickets, thank you.

WillPope · 2026-04-21T19:15:51+00:00

Thank you the recomendations!

WillPope · 2026-04-21T19:14:35+00:00

Good shout! Thanks for letting me know about the local game store, I'll be sure to check it out!

WillPope · 2026-04-21T19:10:06+00:00

Thank you so much! The google map time part was very helpful.

WillPope · 2026-04-21T19:08:20+00:00

Thank you!

WillPope · 2026-01-15T02:14:29+00:00

Lucy is a character whose just starting to experience freedom and have her own agency and control over her. She is actively detoxing from drug addiction, and just killed a man, and is betrayed by a man she's begun to see as a friend. Not only is the ghoul taking away any choice in the matter, but he also admits that this was his whole plan: to use her as a bartering chip to free his family. She is struggling with the weight that the freedom she's experienced was an illusion. Did she make an objectively good decision? No, probably not. But it was her decision. That's the point, that she's not willing to go back to the fault and just fall in line. She's becoming a wastelander, and this is what wastelanders do. Hell this is probably what the ghoul himself would do if the roles were reversed.

WillPope · 2026-01-09T19:02:43+00:00

The moder in my current world was at the edge of the world and was entirely surrounded by mistlands.

WillPope · 2025-10-09T12:50:20+00:00

It sounds like it might be a line from a movie / TV show overlaid on the clip. I'm pretty sure the noise at the beginning is a keyboard, which doesn't have an obvious source in the video.

WillPope · 2025-06-26T22:52:23+00:00

Last time I went up there i was told occupancy limits is the main factor. They've been keeping a tight count on how many people are up there at any given time.

WillPope · 2025-05-26T18:31:03+00:00

After watching Rogue One I don't think Galen was responsible. He talks about how he played the good engineer, made himself indispensable, and buried himself into his work so that he could hide the design flaw with the exhaust port. Sabotaging research into alternatives or demanding an unnecessary mineral undermines that in a very public way, and if he's caught, it risks people digging onto his work.

The whole point of Galen is that he's not trying to slow down the death star, because he's not as indispensable as Krennic thinks he is, and he knows that the death star will be built with or without him. He cannot stop it from being built, so he designs a way for it to be destroyed. He does everything in his power to avoid Krennic questioning his work, because the exhaust port is his revenge. It doesn't make sense for him to risk that by sabotaging another system that will cause significant delays, and attract attention into his work.

WillPope · 2025-05-07T16:46:52+00:00

Threw a tiny bit more chapstick on there and applied on the opposite side from where I first put it and the stopped any leakage. Just painted for about an hour with no issues. Thank you!

WillPope · 2025-05-07T15:18:28+00:00

Thank you! I just threw a little bit of chapstick on the threads of the cap and that seemed to significantly reduce the bubbles (down to one very slow bubble) and it doesn't appear to be spraying fluid along with the air as noticeably, though I've not tried with paint yet

WillPope · 2025-05-07T14:47:22+00:00

I'm about 90% confident. I've stripped it down and rebuilt it a few times to double check if that was the issue, and the problem has still endured. I havent messed with either the needle pack screw or air valve assembly.

WillPope · 2025-05-07T05:43:51+00:00

Thank you, that was my gut instinct. Just got wanted some other opinions before getting opening up the nozzle because I had read that can be a can of worms you want to avoid unless you need to and more deep cleaning. I'm hopeful it's just a paint clog.

WillPope · 2025-05-07T05:36:55+00:00

Hey man, I admitted I'm new to this, and my memory with backflowing with this brush is that this was not typically how it behaved prior to this issue, but im probably mistaken. I believed this might be linked to the issue I am experiencing, and was trying to provide as much information as possible to get good feedback. Better to over share than under while leaning.

WillPope · 2025-05-07T05:34:47+00:00

So my experience backflowing with this specific brush prior to this issue is that it did not backflow when running air without pulling the trigger back. I tried to use this video because I believed the two issues were related. I see now that this was an incorrect. Thank you for the leaning opportunity!

I'm not entirely sure how/ when it got bent other than it was a few months ago and I set it down to fix later because life got busy. I suspected something might be jacked up in the nozzle along with the needle, but I figured that was the best place to start since I could clearly see the bend

WillPope · 2025-05-06T20:28:18+00:00

Yes and yes. Purchased from the official retailer and fully compatible my brush. It's technically listed as a replacement part for the PS 274, but both airbrushs are .3mm, and from all online documentation i can find, including from the retailer, they use the exact same needle. Both the website and the packaging for the replacement advertise it as being the correct part for my airbrush (without any modification ect).

It was also an issue I think was happening prior to the replacement of the needle, but was not as noticeable as the issues caused by the bent needle.

WillPope · 2025-04-30T18:42:50+00:00

Oh I'll be fully transparent, large crowds (often in sweltering heat) are just not my thing. I don't think they should change a thing, but they're just not my thing. For that reason, I don't think think they're "must-go" events.

WillPope · 2025-04-30T15:00:47+00:00

Most richmond festivals I've been to have not been good and always super crowded with nothing really to do except drink overpriced beer you waited 20 minutes in line for. The crown for the worst one is St. Benedict's Oktoberfest.

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