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On the Implausibility of the Death Star’s Trash Compactor
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Wasn't the designer of the death star force to work on it against his will and purposefully put in design flaws as a secret protest? It would make sense that he'd put in all kinds of nonsense to make it as dangerous and impractical to operate as he could get away with.
It was probably built by the lowest bidder too.
In the books it was literally built by slave labor... so yes.
There's that, but get real.
The Death Star was bigger than the Island of Manhattan. You really think that one guy was designing every single corridor and compartment? Like I said, the 'designer' was working on the Big Gun, the hangar decks, the control rooms, and the engines. Things like life support, crew quarters, mess halls would be left to the sub-contractors.
I'd like to imagine a 'Hitchhikers' crossover where someone sneaks in an entire youth hostel into the plans...
Or a coffee shop that exclusively features Vogon poetry
If you want to go down that road, you could write a version where the Death Ray was powered by Vogon poetry.
Like, it's actually just a big speaker and the rest of the station is the amplifier (and some soundproofing, so you don't kill your own people).
True, I'm sure there was a team, but as a lead designer he could try and poison other parts of the design too, like "you can't put guard rails anywhere, it will interfere with photon flux-a-ma-bob flow and the whole things would explode" and nobody was smart enough to challenge him.
If you really, really want to go full meta, try this.
The Lead Designer [let's call him Jon] was a big fan of a fantasy franchine that featured all kinds of daring escapes from the bad guys castles.
Jon decides to incorporate stuff from 'Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers*' into the design of the Death Star. And if anyone does point out that Corridor B-187 looks a lot like the Viper's Palace of Horror, Jon can just say that the show was surprisingly advanced for it's time.
*Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers is an actual book by Harry Harrison, author of 'Bill,the Galactic Hero'