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[001] Peteman Current Version
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As for Alderaan, there is a \'\'huge\'\' difference between levelling the surface of a planet, and blowing it to tiny little bits. Han didn\'t believe that the Empire could turn a planet from \
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As for Alderaan, there is a \\\'\\\'huge\\\'\\\' difference between levelling the surface of a planet, and blowing it to tiny little bits. Han didn\\\'t believe that the Empire could turn a planet from \\\"there\\\" to \\\"not there\\\". As an analogy, with nuclear weapons we could wipe out every person in the United Kingdom. That doesn\\\'t mean we can sink the British Isles.

With the Death Star, I never really got the idea that the Empire was into logic. I like to think as part of Darth Sidious\\\' descent into Dark Side Psychosis, he stopped thinking \\\"wouldn\\\'t the resources that go into this huge project be better spent in a more conventional manner? At this point all it is is a giant symbolic wang.\\\" Or at least added \\\"Oh wait, I just answered my own question there, now didn\\\'t I?\\\" The logic is that it could do things that conventional fleets could not. The logic simply does not hold up under scrutiny unless scrutiny gets you Force Choked and your family executed.
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