I think they mentionned the planetweaponthing can travel at light speed (could be wrong, but pretty sure they mention it) which would make it able to travel from system to sytem.
If this is true, I'd love some verification on it because it would pretty much solve my largest issue I have with the movie....nevermind the fact of how they would get a planet to travel at light speed...lol
Yeah she was overconfident, she even said flat out "You still have no chance" or something to that effect. She presumed, as they did in ANH, that the "death star" was invulnerable.
That doesn't get around the fact that one person at a random computer terminal was capable of disabling their planetary shields with zero checks and balances and zero process and procedures involved. She's just a trooper commander.
Technically it wasn't a key point, because those x-wings weren't doing jack shit to the outside of it. Only after Han and Chewie blew a giant hole in it was the resistance able to bring it down, and even then it was only because Poe was a bad ass pilot who could fly through the hole and fuck shit up from the inside.
I think neogaf would enjoy a post about how Captain Phasma is an allegory for President Hillary Clinton
Wasn't a key point? It was the area they were attacking from the outside. When the hole appeared he flew in and destroyed it. Also, there were large hanger doors so troops would logically be placed there. At some point they knew their shields were brought down...so they had to know rebels were on the ground...yet, no heightened patrols from that either? Come on now.
Sure, the shields are taken down a little bit too easily. Just like Obi-Wan deactivating the Death Star tractor beam did not seem strange to any control room in the station, or even the fact that the beam can be turned off by deactivating only one of seven points. This is the same universe where OSHA will never exist because everyone is seemingly okay with impossibly high and narrow bridges with NO railings. It's Star fucking Wars, and the low security and easily explodable super weapons are all part of it, shit is like James Bond's vodka martini.
The mind wiping actually makes a lot of sense. The dark side would have been looking for any force attuned people, either to convert or destroy. I presume one way to hide from the dark side would be to wipe the memory of any training or understanding of the force. If a person does not attempt to attune to the force, then it probably makes it much more difficult to track. It does not happen often because it has not always been necessary to hide. This also had the added bonus of saving a daughter from certain death if caught earlier in life.
This is the question I was trying to ask because yes it just seems awfully convenient to start going, oh yeah mind wipe like it's super common.
