Death Star Spaceship

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Hide

So, from what you say. Are you implying that the energy sources in the book cannot match the DS power as seen in the movies?

Neither the weapons nor the power plants can, at least not at the size of the Death Star. As I noted, using Cosmic Power, a 10-system (50% of the spacecraft's mass) Spinal Laser requires a space station that's a bit larger than Luna (Earth's moon). Such a weapon requires 10 Cosmic Power Points, which can be provided by 2 Cosmic Total Conversion systems (which seem appropriate for Star Wars' hypermatter reactors). So long as the Death Star's various turbolasers and force shield (if it even has one; I don't recall it being mentioned for DS1, and DS2 used a shield located on Endor) don't require Cosmic Power, that should be enough (the stardrive and possibly thrusters might require Cosmic Power, but those aren't used at the same time as the superlaser so we're fine there). That leaves 8 systems for the stardrive, thrusters, armor, defenses, hangar, and living areas.

Originally Posted by cptbutton

I would assume the DS turbolaser actually somehow converted a large portion of Alderaan's core into antimatter via [magic physics].

Yeah, that's the interpretation I often go with.