Binary system

>>63862161
What?

>>63862161
Better question. Beam was being fired at a different star system entirely and fires at FTL speed.

How could anyone see the beam from the surface of a planet in another system?

Also
>The Sun

>>63862161
it moves just like the death star

I genuinely hated this.

The whole might of the Empire was needed to make the Death Star, yet somehow a weaker First Order can make this?

Could they seriously not think of a better plot point than a "bigger badderer death star"?

?

>>63862242
That was the joke.

>>63862204
Yeah and it should have taken years for the beam to reach too

If you blow up an enemy planet, but then your own planet turns into a frozen graveyard, how is that "winning"?

>>63862197
what do you mean what

Starkiller base works by drawing power from it's sun and completely extinguishing it. It obviously fired once already so how is the sun even still burning when it's preparing to fire for the second time.

>>63862281
What joke?

>>63862242
They spent 30 years making this, while the 2nd Deathstar took like 2.

>>63862322
The first death star took >30 years to be operational and we have no knowledge of when the second began construction

>>63862282

Jar Jar Abrams has no concept of distance. None. The Trek movies had the same exact problem.

And because of this, the Star Killer is even less intimidating. A weapon that can kill on a Galactic Scale and you can't even see it? Now that's far scarier than a bigger Death Star.

>>63862282
Only if it was traveling AT light speed. They actual said its a hyperspace weapon. It uses the same method of travel as the ships. Which means it shouldnt be visible at all.
>>63862319
>Han: So its the Death Star all over again
>Akbar: No, this was the Death Star *brings up Starkiller base* And this is Starkiller
>Han: So its bigger, its still the same thing

>>63862396
invisible beams of death aren't as exciting for the viewer.

>>63862306
By going to a new star?

>>63862207

With what energy?

>>63862501
Maybe, but like >>63862371 said, it would make it a fuckton more intimidating.

>Giant beam of death fires from the planet.
>You of see it for a brief moment for it attains terminal velocity for hyperspace.
>Blips out of existence.
>Lightyears away, 4 planets suddenly just cease to exist.

>>63862306
It moves just like the Death Star.