Rather than another Death Star...

So basically, it's pretty much common knowledge at this point that Starkiller Base is just a bigger, meaner version of the Death Star. While the film isn't out yet and none of us have seen it, it seems near certain that this is the case, and I can't help but feel that Arndt, Abrams and Kasdan could've come up with something a little more... y'know, original.

My question is, if you could have decided, what would YOU prefer the big, bad threatening weapon be, rather than just another Death Star?

Personally, I'd like to see some semblance of a Force-driven superweapon; basically, instead of the First Order setting up camp on a planet and slapping down a superlaser onto it, perhaps Starkiller Base could have been built over an ancient Jedi or Sith temple housing a Force Nexus of some sort - like the Valley of the Jedi. Perhaps Kylo could have specifically requested Starkiller be built there, fitting in with the 'uneasy alliance' between him and Hux. There, he might have been studying ancient powers or Holocrons or something of the sort. Hell, he could have even held Luke in there, trying to pry his 'Jedi Master' secrets out of him.

In essence, the Force Weapon would consist of Kylo discovering how to move planets through the Force, using the power of this Valley-esque place, having said planets spiral into their parent star. Kind of like a Thought Bomb mixed with a Shawken Device mixed with Centerpoint.

Let me know what YOU think could have been more creative than a third Death Star.

 

If it's a giant space laser that uses the energy from the planet's core as a power source, it probably doesn't even need to move. Physics will probably be thrown out the window as usual (not complaining, just noting) and said laser will probably be directed from Starkiller's system at the planet or even star of another system.

The array might just be a series of mirrors or 'amplifiers' or something like that that allows the laser to be directed around the galaxy across large distances, so that Starkiller can kill stars from afar, sitting pretty in its own system without having to move.