Starkiller Base (movie version) - How did it re-charge after first shot?

my dim understanding is that it's option no. 2.

what's curious about that is why not just go to the system, suck up its sun, and let the system perish as a result?
not quick enough, perhaps? though the destruction of a sun should plunge the planet into an instant deep freeze, shouldn't it?

 

makes total sense to me. i'm not a physicist, so i don't know how it all works ~hahaha

 

I'm pretty sure Starkiller Base moved in the same fashion as it shoots its beam. It was a new technology where it is actually able to fold space.

 

This is a great question. I think its mentioned in the novels that its mobile, so I think 2. But I also think it was probably made to fire a couple times then collapse.

But honestly this brings up another question: How did the original Death Star recharge? Where did it get its power source from?

 

How would a planet with an atmosphere move through space? The Death Star I can kind of accept. But a planet? With life on it? Silly.

 

if it does "fold space", then technically it's not moving.

if you have a crumb on a napkin and you fold the napkin in half, the crumb is now technically in two locations at once.

 

It was mobile.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Starkiller_Base

always keep in mind that Star Wars isn't science fiction, so it doesn't have to explain too much

 

It seems to me the safest option for a Starkiller program is to choose your targets in sequence of importance. Then, build the Starkiller in a remote uninhabited system within firing range of the operational Starkiller weapon. Then, when you become operational, you give your anti-Republic speech, fire on the most important target. Once you blow that target up, you move to the system you just targeted, suck up the sun for a recharge; target second-most important. Fire. Move to that system. Recharge. Fire on third-most important. Repeat until no targets of import are left or Resistance implodes Starkiller base.

So I presume Starkiller started in the original uninhabited system where it was constructed. Sucked up the sun in that system. Fired on Republic Prime. Moved to Republic Prime system. Sucked up sun. Imploded by Resistance in Republic Prime system.

I could be totally wrong. I know that the Starkiller blew up the Republic prime planet. Then was imploded before it could blow up Resistance HQ. I'm fuzzy on the rest.

 

It reminds me of THE NEW JEDI ORDER. I loved reading each and every book but they kept one upping the super weapons after each installment. It got tiresome. To the point your like, just stop already.

I could have done without StarKiller base. It was just... ugh. OK but it happened. So here we are. Lets just pray there is not a galaxy destroyer in the future. I honestly couldn't take it.

on that note I loved TFA. Lets move on without ANY, NOT ONE super weapon.

Please.

 

I guess it was placed in a perfect position to never have to be moved.

 

It pretty much "KILLS" a star to charge and only needs one blast to decimate its target and it most likely uses stars from the edges of the galaxy to charge that aren't around any major and/or minor systems .

 

"Origin point" though, suggesting it has moved....

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"Origin point" though, suggesting it has moved....

 

From where? The mid rim?

 

that is answered so many times in canon and in the EU the Death Star is like a gaint lightsaber because of a green giant adegan lightsaber crystal

 

Those are otherwise known as "kyber crystals" aren't they ?

 

Well, as far as I know the crystal only focuses the energy.
I've read that Lucas originally wanted the dark side to be the Death Star's power source. It was called the ,,booger".