(May 7, 2014 at 5:25 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(May 7, 2014 at 5:13 pm)Bad Writer Wrote: "Fully operational" from a certain point of view, one would surmise.
If it needed a ground-based shield, it's safe to presume it couldn't leave orbit.
If the Emperor is stupid enough to call that wreck "fully operational", he's stupid enough to build it next to a planet full of Wookies.
QED.
You're all overlooking one thing.
"It's a trap!"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'