If a ship — Star Destroyer, Super Star Destroyer, Mon Cal whatnot, or what have you — is so well built as to be able to survive falling out of the sky and hitting a planet and still remain mostly intact, how is it that they are even ever damaged by weaponry? Sure, they are very cool visual effects shots, but I have a bad feeling that this is going to be typical JJ Abrams material: really fun, but the minute you look just slightly under the amazing surface you'll see a whole raft of things that just don't make sense.

Yeah! Like the destruction of a command deck causing a vessel to careen into a space station!

Man, who the hell ever thought that one up?

Actually, the destruction of the Executor IS a massive letdown. Nothing new about that.

Endor? The Ewoks! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Well, one can hope.

I am all for finding out that Jakku is some Huttese for "up poop creek." And the rest of the galaxy was talking about the destruction of Death Star 2 and how all the Ewoks were totally Jakku and the name just stuck.

Quick montage of planet-wide devastation and a few mournful Ewoks trudging away as sand dunes engulf the last remaining trees of Bright...

I can't keep going, I've depressed myself.

So..... Then the few surviving ewoks loose all their fur due to the disaster and take up a nomadic lifestyle and become jawas?

Proof that something similar happened to tatooine in the distant past?

Star Wars is about about looking cool first and being believable 82nd. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Indeed. Star Wars IS Space Opera.

Found this on Craig's list.

If a ship — Star Destroyer, Super Star Destroyer, Mon Cal whatnot, or what have you — is so well built as to be able to survive falling out of the sky and hitting a planet and still remain mostly intact, how is it that they are even ever damaged by weaponry? Sure, they are very cool visual effects shots, but I have a bad feeling that this is going to be typical JJ Abrams material: really fun, but the minute you look just slightly under the amazing surface you'll see a whole raft of things that just don't make sense.

Ever heard of EMP?

If a ship — Star Destroyer, Super Star Destroyer, Mon Cal whatnot, or what have you — is so well built as to be able to survive falling out of the sky and hitting a planet and still remain mostly intact, how is it that they are even ever damaged by weaponry? Sure, they are very cool visual effects shots, but I have a bad feeling that this is going to be typical JJ Abrams material: really fun, but the minute you look just slightly under the amazing surface you'll see a whole raft of things that just don't make sense.

Yeah! Like the destruction of a command deck causing a vessel to careen into a space station!

Man, who the hell ever thought that one up?

I was actually just watching the original trilogy and ripping it apart like every angry fanboy will do to ep. 7. There is a ton of stupid crap in those movies that I love so much

If a ship — Star Destroyer, Super Star Destroyer, Mon Cal whatnot, or what have you — is so well built as to be able to survive falling out of the sky and hitting a planet and still remain mostly intact, how is it that they are even ever damaged by weaponry? Sure, they are very cool visual effects shots, but I have a bad feeling that this is going to be typical JJ Abrams material: really fun, but the minute you look just slightly under the amazing surface you'll see a whole raft of things that just don't make sense.

Yeah! Like the destruction of a command deck causing a vessel to careen into a space station!

Man, who the hell ever thought that one up?

I was actually just watching the original trilogy and ripping it apart like every angry fanboy will do to ep. 7. There is a ton of stupid crap in those movies that I love so much

An unBELIEVABLE amount.

JAKKU!

See my thought is that the debris on Jakku is waht is left after the DSII was destroyed. Jakku is another moon in the Endor System and that the SSD on the ground is the Executor. This would also explain the X-Wing in th first shot.

Just my two cents.

See my thought is that the debris on Jakku is waht is left after the DSII was destroyed. Jakku is another moon in the Endor System and that the SSD on the ground is the Executor. This would also explain the X-Wing in th first shot.

Just my two cents.

The Battle of Jakku took place one year after The Battle of Endor.

See my thought is that the debris on Jakku is waht is left after the DSII was destroyed. Jakku is another moon in the Endor System and that the SSD on the ground is the Executor. This would also explain the X-Wing in th first shot.

Just my two cents.

The Executor crashed headlong into the DSII then exploded and then the DSII exploded. How in the ^$#& did the Executor fly across a system, crash land into another planet, and still remain relatively intact? Star Wars stretches physics quite a bit, but that's ridiculous. There apparently was a massive battle at Jakku. This has been confirmed quite a few times. New Republic Forces engaged what was left of an Imperial Remnant.

I was really shook up and justifiably upset seeing the remains of a once proud and formidable Super Star Destroyer in the trailer, but thankfully I found this GEM on this still photo to make my day marginally brighter.

Source of humor.

Today I learned that Tim Russ who plays Star Trek's Lt. Tuvok was also the trooper in Spaceballs with the genius line, "We ain't found sh_t"

See my thought is that the debris on Jakku is waht is left after the DSII was destroyed. Jakku is another moon in the Endor System and that the SSD on the ground is the Executor. This would also explain the X-Wing in th first shot.

Just my two cents.

The Executor crashed headlong into the DSII then exploded and then the DSII exploded. How in the ^$#& did the Executor fly across a system, crash land into another planet, and still remain relatively intact? Star Wars stretches physics quite a bit, but that's ridiculous. There apparently was a massive battle at Jakku. This has been confirmed quite a few times. New Republic Forces engaged what was left of an Imperial Remnant.

Also.. if the EU/Legends is used, there were several.. 4 I think.. SSDs constructed.. I can place 2 and their destruction in either ep 6 or a book.. the other 2 I dont recall where they were or what happened to them.

The 2nd one from the books was the .. Lusankya, or something like that.. was hidden inside a planet as a prison.. Coruscant if I remember right.. hey.. it's been years... 20 or so, since I last read those books.. lol it was destroyed in a battle at the end I think.. I could google it I guess.. but it's 3:30 am and I'm not that worried about it.. lol.. have a good one guys..

No one mentioning it didn't just crash, it went down upside down. Or possibly rolled a few times.

An object of this size can't roll. It would be shredded, and its kinetic energy could raze the planet surface and atmosphere, like the stone that hit our planet and exterminated the dinosaurs, but several times more destructive.

This ship may have suffered an emergency landing at 'low' speed.

Hmm, where are the banks of 2 engines? Is this a overturned SSD, or a smaller variant?

Broken. Detached. Jawas are fast and efficient. A magician did it.

Oh, crap! That IS an Eclipse-class!

Ahem... *Executor-class.

Yeah, an Eclipse would've probably destroyed the darn planet when it crashed...

Or, it's Star Wars, and it doesn't need your fancy physics and it totally did crash because Star Wars is much more thematically driven than realistically driven.

Everyone assumes these ships were shot down and crashed. When I saw the Star Destroyer in the beginning, my first thought was "Oh, they scuttled it when the Empire fell."

Take the ship in nice and slow, gently set it down, and leave it there. Like an airplane graveyard, but... MUCH bigger.

Everyone assumes these ships were shot down and crashed. When I saw the Star Destroyer in the beginning, my first thought was "Oh, they scuttled it when the Empire fell."

Take the ship in nice and slow, gently set it down, and leave it there. Like an airplane graveyard, but... MUCH bigger.

But who are we kidding? This is Star Wars. The Rule Of Cool says it crashed, so that's what my money would be on.

Everyone assumes these ships were shot down and crashed. When I saw the Star Destroyer in the beginning, my first thought was "Oh, they scuttled it when the Empire fell."

Take the ship in nice and slow, gently set it down, and leave it there. Like an airplane graveyard, but... MUCH bigger.

Yeah, the resources it must take to run a ship that size must be incredible, particularly if the nature of the war changed and the role it was designed for became less important. I can totally see why it might have been scrapped between Episode 6 and 7.

But who are we kidding? This is Star Wars. The Rule Of Cool says it crashed, so that's what my money would be on.

In hindsight, mine too.

But it would also fit the Rule if we looked over the horizon and saw HUNDREDS of them, just waiting to be cobbled together into a few dozen workable ships. A secret fleet made up of relics from the last war...

I'm going with controlled crash. A super Star Destroyer is bigger than the meteor that killed the dinosaurs. But with enough anti-grav working for it, it could control the crash enough to cripple the ship without destroying the planet.

What I find funny, thinking about it now, is how much cheaper ramming an SD into a planet to cause a mass extinction is than building A Death Star... I suppose Dearh Stars don't give much time for escapes though. That makes for scarier symbols.

A controlled crash wouldn't be upside down.

So..... Then the few surviving ewoks loose all their fur due to the disaster and take up a nomadic lifestyle and become jawas?

Proof that something similar happened to tatooine in the distant past?

Because all of this has happened before, and it will all happen again...

A controlled crash wouldn't be upside down.

Whatever happened, we can be pretty sure that it started with some helmsman turning to the rest of the bridge and saying "Hey! Watch THIS!"

A controlled crash wouldn't be upside down.

Why not? There is no upside down in space. Rolling it over may have been impossible once it was forced into atmo.