1 hour ago, FTS Gecko said:

To be fair, that's pretty much a natural consequence of the First Order having "miniturised Death Star tech" on Krait in the last jedi. I mean, let's face it, if you have Death Star scale weapons small enough to be able to be wheeled around on a planetary surface, why not mount them on your capital ships?

But like, the miniaturized Death Star tech just put a not-that-huge hole in a door. Not explode a planet. Probably only do about the same damage as the Autocannons on the Dreadnaught. Pretty impressive, destroy-a-base sort of stuff, but still.

Plus the First Order didn't even build the dang Superlaser Star Destroyers--Palpatine built the secret fleet before the First Order even showed up. Sigh... An army built in secret. Again. JJ... C'mon...

If the Exegol cannons had been more like toned down Death Star lasers like the single reactor shot on Jedda in Rogue One, I would have been happier. Still, a fully functional new fleet out of nowhere was silly. With how hard it is to get to Exegol, how did they manufacture 800 Destroyers in secret? The logistics are silly. It should have had it just be a large missing portion of the Imperial fleet that disappeared after the Battle of Endor as part of Palp's long play. Instead of having one Destroyer obliterate a planet with a Death Star weapon, send ten Destroyers with reguler laser batteries and show us what an orbital bombardment looks like. We got a taste of one at D'Qar, but give me a bombardment like the destruction of Taris in KOTOR. 800 Star Destroyers is menacing enough so quit going back to the Death Star well everytime.

25 minutes ago, 5050Saint said:

If the Exegol cannons had been more like toned down Death Star lasers like the single reactor shot on Jedda in Rogue One, I would have been happier.

Or if it took a volley from a few ships ships to blow up the planet.

Like, that would have been a really cool sequence. Five-ish Exegol Destroyers around the planet, a bridge shot of the commander being told the fleet was in position then giving the order to commence firing, one by one the lasers lighting up, and then boom.

It'd still feel familiar, but also a bit new and a bit less absurd, with a nice dash of suspense if it hasn't been established that these are planet-killers yet.

5 hours ago, theBitterFig said:

Not explode a planet.

Definitely refuse to go on record as a defender of the travesty that was Ep IX but...

As I recall, blowing up a planet is not what these things do. It isn't a "single-beam explosion" like the original death star, but seems more like

2 hours ago, 5050Saint said:

the single reactor shot on Jedda in Rogue One

Except when prolonged it bores through the planet's crust, superheating the core and destabilizing the surface through gravitational ripples, destroying all life on it. The planets ended up looking more like if Concord Dawn went full 360 than Alderaan IIRC.

It almost seems like these weapons make more use of the planet's own hot core than the superlaser for their ultimate destruction.

Still stupid though.

Also can we talk about how Poe is just like: "Well yeah duh it's a thousand Death Stars, like what else were we expecting from ol' undead Palpy?"

Yeah, but what if it was six Star Destroyers sending six of those sustained beams into the planet? That would have looked *SIX* times cooler.

Concept Art from Solo: A Star Wars Story Shared by LucasFilms Phil Szostak shows a showdown between Han, Qi’ra, Beckett and Dryden Vos atop the Falcon .

55 minutes ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

Concept Art from Solo: A Star Wars Story Shared by LucasFilms Phil Szostak shows a showdown between Han, Qi’ra, Beckett and Dryden Vos atop the Falcon .

Doesn't work for me. Lando just bailing was hilarious.

My head canon on the ridicufleet was a touch of old school Naga Sadow Battle Med. Just that nobody got close enough to the other 775 ships to fly straight through them and discover the illusion.

Why, is open to question. Perhaps Palps was just larking about, since he had little else to do but dangle there on that robot arm and wait.

... That's one big Nantex.