$852Q= Death Star's cost without weapons

[Zeratul]

you'd save a lot in raw materials, even if that journey is somewhat long.

[Zeratul]

Nope. it lacks the nice crater that mimas has.

[Jim]

NUKE THE MOON.

That would be a good name for a Ska punk band.

[Zeratul]

There is another problem with using Luna instead of Mimas.

Luna has a radius of roughly 1737km, whereas Mimas has a radius of just shy of 200km

the First Death star had a 160km diameter, whereas the second had a diameter of 900km.
In other words, to convert Luna to a Death star would require far more resources than Mimas, seeing as its diameter would be almost 3500km, or almost 4 times that of the second death star.

[Zeratul]

its not double, its quadruple... besides, when you double size, cost typically increases at least four-fold, possibly more.

It is also far more likely to not get away with converting Luna. Its too visible.

[Quina Quen]

I love how seriously this is being taken.

[Drought]

you people should also keep in mind that any party, opposing the concept, are likely to have a robot searching for someones only hope.

you might want to consider renaming it to "Doomed star"

[Zeratul]

hence why we would place it out of sight and out of mind, rather than flaunting its construction right where anyone can see it.

[Drought]

thats what that other guy did, till those bosos flew in and mistook it for a moon first ...

the robot is out there ... waiting to find someones only hope !!

Doomed star I tell ya

[Zeratul]

They made the mistake of Hubris. They thought themselves too safe. Thus, instead of merely building it out of the moon in question, we'll have it built below the surface of said moon. Once it is done, the shell will be cracked and fall off, leaving a shiny new weapon of mass destruction.

[Drought]

all the prepperation in the world, will not save it, in fact ....
adding all the nutty abundand features will include the one which will wheel in its own demise.

The Doomed star's trackor beam <_<

Leaving it out is optional, but we all know how we get when we can include a funky piece of equiptment for a mere few billions on a total project cost of gazillions

[Zeratul]

True. Far wiser to implement a rather thick layer of armor plating. (say, 3km thick) and seventeen separate layers of shielding with hextuple redundancy. Minimum. Might be a bit harder to move around, but only weapons of similar firepower would be able to penetrate that.
To keep such from being a problem, it would not be a bad idea to have an over-developed intelligence network. This network would then, while the weapon is being assembled, rat out sufficient numbers of opposing evil overlords so not only do no such weapons exist elsewhere, but the heroes are too busy taking care of those to notice this little construction project.

[Drought]

a decoy hm, has merrit, but still, the lingering thoughts of a that robot putting the doom in doomed star, haunts me

Also, 3km thick you say?, my god man, I hope your not the construction engineer :\
You'd use it to sufficate everyone in the construction site just to test if its possible .... twice

[Zeratul]

Automated labor, darlin'... automated labor.

[Drought]

i wanna bet you would still at least to have tried to sufficate them as well .... twice