Star-signs change... apparently.

Originally Posted by Kiken

What's all this talk of targeting and blowing up planets?

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Would those be the plans that are so easily stolen?

The whole security layout of the place is so totally weak:

1 - The door to the control room overlooking the docking bay should have some kind of code, or eye/hand scanner, so only genuine members of staff can enter.

2 - Prisoner escorts shouldn't just be able to wander through the place without getting clearance to access the areas closer to the detenion area.

3 - Again, the door to the detention area should have some kind of codes/scans - or there should be a holding area outside where prisoner escorts hand over their priosners to the detention block staff, so only those who work there are actually allowed in.

4 - There should be a nearby guardroom that can deploy extra security if someone manages to break into the detention area control room, rather than just having the place watched with ineffective security cameras.

5 - There are only 2 sets of doors between prisoners and access to the rest of the station - and the cell corridor is in line with the exit, meaning that anyone who escapes can see the way out right away.

6 - There shouldn't be a garbage chute that close to the detention block - or if there really has to be one there, it should have much smaller openings in it so no human sized objects can enter it.

7 - There should be security cameras in the garbage compactor, and the maintenance door should be guarded and/or protected by codes/scans.

8 - The tractor beam control area should be in a large, well-lit room that's staffed at all times, and any attempt to shut it off should require clearance from at least 2 other people in the chain of command.

The whole design of the station is flawed, but it's made worse by the sloppy and incompetent way it's run - the entire security set up can be outwitted by 3 men, 2 droids and a large humanoid, who can then run rings around the inept response to the security breach using the poorly designed layout of the station and escape with an extremly valuable political prisoner.

Originally Posted by Nericus

The Death Star's own size is it's own worst enemy (besides the small thermal exhaust port of course). A station the size of a planet is just too big to be effectively run by a station commander and his Sith Lord partner.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

That's a fault with all evil overlords, not just Sith

Originally Posted by McNum

In retrospect, the bottomless pits in the throne room probably should have been covered, but I guess it's one of the places you can save credits when building a moon-sized battle station.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

But that still doesn't excuse the incompetence of the security set-up - the size of the station doesn't mean the detention block has to off Zig-levels of prisoner confinement
In fact, the size of the station should make that kind of rescue harder not easier - like why keep valuable political prisoners in cells that are only a few yards down an open corridor from the door out of the detention block? If the station is several miles wide, then put the cells at the end of a mile long corridor that's broken down into separate sections that each need high level clearance to access, and have a different prisoner escort group for each section, with guard rooms full of response squads in each section as well.
Plus, the cell doors should have some kind of lock on them, not just be opened with the push of a button.



That's a fault with all evil overlords, not just Sith

Originally Posted by Nericus

1. When they were building the thing, I suspect the focus was on the planet destroying super laser more then the location and design of the detention blocks. Also over confidence likely kept them from thinking that anyone would sneak aboard much less make a run for the detention blocks.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

That's very male planning - focus only on making the biggest possible weapon, and then sort out the details later

Originally Posted by RemusShepherd

But the design of the Death Star is very yonic. If it were designed by a male, it would have had a huge gun barrel sticking out of its side.

Originally Posted by RemusShepherd

But the design of the Death Star is very yonic. If it were designed by a male, it would have had a huge gun barrel sticking out of its side.

Originally Posted by McNum

Eh, Palpatine at least had something to brag about. He conquered an entire galaxy in a lifetime. Evil or not... that is impressive. Most impressive.

His fault was much simpler: Lack of interpersonal pattern recognition. To turn Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader, he exploited Anakin's fear of losing his family. As evil mastermind plans go, this is a pretty good one. It worked, too. However, if this is the plan you're going with, you probably should not have Vader in the same room as you torture his son to death with magical lightning. Especially if the kid was to cry out to his father for help. Vader might not take that very well. Turns out, he didn't.

In retrospect, the bottomless pits in the throne room probably should have been covered, but I guess it's one of the places you can save credits when building a moon-sized battle station.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

There may be stuff happening in your future.