If the super weapon is a planet...

If it could move around, it could easily wreck the environments on the planet, but that's if it's a real planet. I think that it could be a completely artificial planet that's designed to look like a real planet so that no one would know that The FO has a weapon that powerful. If that's the case, then I can see the base moving in a natural orbit because it will need to get around a sun's orbit to destroy it and nearby systems before making the jump to Hyperspace.

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I think they might have meant that they generate the kind of power/energy from the planet's core, since the firing we see in the trailers (red light destroying trees) is actual pure red energy.

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And I just had a revelation: He good guys use red and the bad guys use green...that devastating red firing is red...

 

Magma?!

What's next, sharks with frickin' laser beams?

 

Then it must have really "exotic" properties to seriously power a weapon capable of making stars implode or whatever which usually have molten lava and/or magma and things like that for "breakfast".

Seriously, thinking that molten lava ad/or magma could be some kind of energy source sufficient to compete with the hellfire and nuclear fusion process inside any star (several million degrees hot!) would then really be something only a Mickey Mouse would come up with...wait a minute...

I seriously hope that the planet is somehow covered by facilities larger in volume than the previous Death Stars that actually create this terrible firepower to somehow destroy a star. I'll keep my fingers crossed because on December 17th I look forward to be entertained and amazed but not really amused.

 

If they can build a superweapon inside a Planet, they would also think about a propulsion system of that magnitute.

I mean, they have a weapon that destroys the sun and the system with it. They have to move somehow.

Reminds me of rogue planets, cruising through space.

 

This has me thinking...

One side of the planet uses a nozzled/vectored expulsion of a lower power/density/pressure blast from the planet's crystalline core. To this end, propulsion.

Once it comes full stop, the beam is focused out of the other end with much less footprint (hell of a recoil) to push the planet back, but enough intensity to pierce its target.

 

I paraphrase Luke from ESB: Moving a 100 mile diameter Death Star through interstellar space is one thing, moving a planet of several 1,000 miles diameter through interstellar space is something completely different.

(Unless Yoda intervenes and says "only in your mind" and "use the Force...")

I'm very certain that National Geographic or someone else will devote Starkiller Base an entire article examining feasibility. This should be a very interesting read.

 

This picture may shed some light on the true nature of the Starkiller Base super weapon-

Spoiler

It's a planet-sized Nerf launcher!

 

Very good observation. So they probably need to send a hypercam-droid into the target system first that transmits images with hyperspace speed to verify that their destruction of the target was successful.

So the only way to stop the weapon from being used would be locating each hypercam-droid and destroy it until the First Order runs out of these or sends armed escorts to protect the hypercam-droids.

Otherwise, depending on lightyear distance, they have to wait for say twenty years (target 20 lightyears away) to visually verify that the target has been destroyed, i.e. the star vanishes in the nightsky.

That would be a looooong Star Wars film.

 

What a dirty picture *tsk* *tsk* *tsk*

 

I wonder if it will have an exhaust port just behind the main port?

 

Poe will blow up the planet by hitting its core at the end of TFA.

 

I could be wrong but Starkiller was code named "catapult" the resistance weapon was "sledge hammer."

 

Larry: Need a super weapon.
JJ: One more ominous than a death star.
Larry: What's bigger than being able to wipe out a whole planet?
JJ: A whole star system.
Larry: I get it, like a star killer, like the original last name of Luke. Okay. Let's go with that.

That is really all you need to know about this plot device.