Richard Mischook
healynmy biggest criticism about the original Star Wars is that they called it a "Death Star". any evil imperialist organization worth its salt would hire a consulting firm to come up with something like "Liberation Sphere"
Dogtober With Archie@healyn honestly yeah
Jacie? 🐦🐦🐦🐦@healyn The Free-dome
Suitably ballyhooed@healyn hate to seriouspost, but I think it indicates the stage of fascism/eternal-war they're at: they've internalized death worship enough that it's something cool to them
eena meena me@healyn what @antifuchs said
Renato RamondaNice read, but honestly I think it's just that Lucas didn't really realize what he was writing (a guess supported by... Well, all of Star Wars he had a hand in)
Harp 
@healyn the fucking worst part of this post is that i immediately thought of its justification as was brought up in extended universe and how it is emblematic of the doctrine that ultimately causes the empire to crumble, and like
i feel like i need to go question my life choices now.
Pepi the Fox 
@wigglytuffitout @healyn under admiral thrawn things would have played out differently
LivingCode@pepijndevos omg people who know thrawn!
Victor Venema@healyn The consulting firm would also not have advised to nominate Donald Trump.
Michel Salim 
@healyn Half Moon Peace
spdrcstl@healyn when Darths and Droids riffed on it, they called it the Peace Moon as far as I remember... that stuck with me
Carl Muckenhoupt
[Moved] Polychrome@healyn "Harmony Sphere".
"either silence the discord or ya gonna get harmonized, kapish? 
"
idiot ghost@healyn People's Democratic Orb
w4tsn@healyn I propose Love Star, since its purpose is to get rid of all the "other hate" and make the universe love again. Hell yeah
Mae@healyn There's a good bit in the Radio version where Leia's all like "...it's called WHAT?!"
And then she accidentally gives herself away as a spy because only the highest ranking Imperials are actually going around calling it that to each other.
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Taz the pika@healyn IIRC there was lore that justified that name by making it into a memorial monument, but if we're being realistic here, I don't think anybody still loyal to the Empire by that point particularly cared any more either way.
Greyshley 
@healyn Liberationssphähre macht frei.
Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦@healyn Or maybe "special military operation star"
@Grant_M if you wanna work for McKinsey, you're gonna have to step your shit up, Grant
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@healyn "Witness my fully armed MOBILE CULTURAL EXCHANGE CENTRE (mwahahahaha)"
Drew Mochak@healyn I quote Grand Moff Tarken: "Fear will keep these systems in line. Fear of this battlestation." They called it a death star for the same reason they blow up a planet full of noncombatants before the millitary base: to scare the pants off everyone else.
random thoughtsIf you have such a weapon, then you got to make sure you announce it exists - re, Dr. Strangelove.
No one believed them when they did eventually threaten a planet, and that's why we no longer have Alderaan, causing billions of death, although this has been retro-ed slightly in Rogue One.
@hittitezombie @healyn Under MAD theory, what the Empire should have done is leak the death star plans to the rebels (after shoring up that pesky exhaust port issue) so they can make their own death star. Except it's called the DeathX, because it has 4 engines in the back, to make it their own thing.
duckfarts@healyn freedom is stored in the balls
Helge Eichhorn@healyn @ancient_catbus The government program providing the funding is actually called the "Mobility and Planetary-Scale Unrest Suppression Enabled Public Health and Safety Enhancement Station" with the catchy acronym MAPSUSEPHASES.
sabik@healyn
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Death Star as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Death Star from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Death Star
Tim N7KOM@healyn yeah, but The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line.
Jeremy Kahn@healyn the "Spirit of Imperial Peace"
Mungus@healyn I think that would be too confusing for Star Wars fans
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin
Santiago Lema 
@healyn @philippsteinkrueger that’s the cool thing about Brazilian police. They’re sincere . They’re here to terrorize poor people into submission and don’t even bother to cover it in dystopian ambiguities.
I swear the first time I saw such logo on a van I believed it was fucking Carnival.
Count Regal Inkwell@santiago @healyn @philippsteinkrueger "Are we the baddies?" but in brazilian portuguese.
"Nós somos os malvados?"
Choobs@healyn y’know, I’m thinking about it here (it’s a long time since I watched the first trilogy) - did anyone Imperial actually call it a Death Star?
Aaron Abernethy@theronster @healyn pretty sure he says “fully operational battle station” doesn’t he?
@theronster @healyn me neither! I’ve been pondering it all day :)
@choobs @theronster pretty sure at one point Vader says, "we're gonna blow a bunch of shit up with this awesome Death Star". could be wrong
@healyn @theronster I think I remember that bit
The Great Llama 
Chris [list of emoji]The infamous deleted "TIE Fighter hotbox scene" is officially Not Canon, despite having been around forever.
dmvianna@healyn WAR IS PEEEEEEEACE
Claudio Zizza 🦜@healyn Think about all those Saturday morning cartoons where the antagonists do evil things because they love to be evil. That's how conflict works. They are evil, you are good. Good must eliminate evil at all costs.
Maybe the good guys hired that consulting firm.
Brian RogersYou should be grateful when the Security Moon is in your star system! It means the rebels who are disrupting your peaceful existence are on the run!
HamishH 
@healyn the Imperial Love Ball, or in reference to both versions, "Imperial Love Balls"
RichardOntario@healyn In my galactic experience, the literal name, though unspoken for millennia, is…….
Larry 
jollyrogue
MarcusCSC@healyn it would need a military code like L1A1 orbital defense system or Sn abbreviate like Loads
Horst Albermann 🇪🇺🇩🇪@healyn The empire is in power. Liberation is a potentially dangerous term. No, it must of course be Freedom Star 🤭
Gregnee@healyn
“Happy Fun Ball!”
“Happy Fun Ball!”
Aviva Gary@healyn Nah... they're obviously Space!Nazis... as such it would have to have the word Democracy, Freedom or Department of Homeland security in there somewhere... 😆
Gabrielle Cappelletti (G.K)@healyn so very true. Evil inhabits whitewashed corridors with politically correct jargon, which is as misleading as it gets...
Keith DaggettEvil authoritarian imperialist entities don't care what people think of them.
Wresting power is enough, and the threat of death has always been recognized as a highly persuasive and powerful motivator.
Particularly if you have a weapon that can vaporize planets.