Explaining the Death Star
Apr. 28th, 2011 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nancylebovThe Death Star was an effort to control an Empire while not spending enough money to actually administer it.
I suggest that it may have also been an attempt to not have to think about boring things like bureaucracy and maintaining alliances.
In any case, this may suggest a reason for the Death Star having that single point of failure which is so necessary for a satisfying eucatastrophe-- it was designed on the cheap. The contracts were written by people who didn't think out what they wanted. And I'd like to think that there was deliberate sabotage involved.
I suggest that it may have also been an attempt to not have to think about boring things like bureaucracy and maintaining alliances.
In any case, this may suggest a reason for the Death Star having that single point of failure which is so necessary for a satisfying eucatastrophe-- it was designed on the cheap. The contracts were written by people who didn't think out what they wanted. And I'd like to think that there was deliberate sabotage involved.
