Starkiller base is stupid imo. Let's say the first order needed to pearl harbour for plot reasons. How about if they instead would have used something like this?

Nuclear missiles with hyperdrive!

For decades the first order have sectretly been building and stashing up hyperdrive nukes, until finaly they have enough to erradicate all life on the planets in question. They come out of hyperspace just above the planets sufrace and detonate. Then, as all nukes would have been spent, the resistance couterattack would have been less strategic and more about revenge. This would portray the resistance as more desperate, and really up against all odds in the greater scheme of things. Would have been a good place to start the next movie.

Agree? Stupid?

A good idea indeed.

I don't want to cheapen your idea when I say that "anything we think of is better than Starkiller base!"

Vengeance is a dumb motive for heroes.

It would still make strategic sense to take out the sneak attack WMD whatever it was.

Starkiller base was fine. The motive was fine, but the movie was really weak in giving any emotional impact to the destruction of the hosnian system and (presumably) millions or billions of lives.

Vengeance is a dumb motive for heroes.

It would still make strategic sense to take out the sneak attack WMD whatever it was.

Starkiller base was fine. The motive was fine, but the movie was really weak in giving any emotional impact to the destruction of the hosnian system and (presumably) millions or billions of lives.

Ditto, besides because we never saw the planet before in the film or heard about it most people who first watched the movie thought it was Coruscant that got destroyed, especially if they missed Hux's and 3PO's line.

Vengeance is a dumb motive for heroes.

It would still make strategic sense to take out the sneak attack WMD whatever it was.

Starkiller base was fine. The motive was fine, but the movie was really weak in giving any emotional impact to the destruction of the hosnian system and (presumably) millions or billions of lives.

Ditto, besides because we never saw the planet before in the film or heard about it most people who first watched the movie thought it was Coruscant that got destroyed, especially if they missed Hux's and 3PO's line.

At least the base never misfired and took out a sizeable portion of the FO Fleet.