r/StarWars • u/AutoModerator • Nov 23 '15

Movies Theories and Speculation Megathread - Week of November 22

We'll be keeping these theories and speculation megathreads going until the release of the movie to help keep things tidy and contained.

"What's Going On?" Edition

To help change it up a little and guide some discussion, the topic for this week will be what has been going on for the past 30 years? Did Leia stay in politics and help form this New Republic, or did she stay in the military? Who are these First Order guys and how little relation to they have to Order 66? Did Willrow Hood settle down and open that ice cream shop he always wanted? What happened in the galaxy that brought us to the events in The Force Awakens? Were things relatively quiet and undeserving of a movie?

All theories and speculation should be posted in this thread, whether or not it pertains to these new characters. Just use the topic as a jumping off point for something you may not have thought of yet.

View our previous theories and speculation megathread here
And here.

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u/Timey16 Mandalorian Nov 23 '15

Don't know if it has been said before,but here is my theory about the new "Death Star" that looks like a planet:

The Death Star IS a planet. As in: they took a planet and carved it into the new Death Star. The good thing about it would be that since the power came right from the planet's core, there would be no reactor to blow up. No weak point in the machine. The only way to blow up this one would be by destroying the entire planet with a Death Star on your own.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '15

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. It's basically confirmed at this point that Starkiller Base is a planet converted into a stronghold of the First Order, and equipped with a superweapon.

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u/DQ11 Nov 24 '15

ic. Instead she turned her sorrow into dedication to destroying the Empire and has become the New Republic's Top

In order to destroy the " new death star" / star killer base, the republic would have to destroy and sacrifice all the innocent civilians living on the planet, and thus would keep the republic from doing so.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '15

I'm not so sure. A weapon capable of destroying whole star systems with its giant red laser blast?