Timeline for Did the second Death Star have Interdiction capability?
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| Oct 24, 2023 at 1:33 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 23, 2023 at 18:43 | comment | added | Milo P | @DavidW Historical note: in fact, that very plot point was the original impetus for Interdictors. According to Zahn's endnotes in the Heir to the Empire anniversary edition (p480): "The Interdictor Cruiser had been invented by West End Games, keying (I assume) off Admiral Piett's line in Return of the Jedi that the Imperial forces at Endor weren't to attack, but merely to keep the Rebel ships from escaping." | |
| Oct 23, 2023 at 17:53 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 23, 2023 at 17:52 | history | edited | Null♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 23, 2023 at 17:51 | comment | added | Null♦ | This related question (my own) has an answer which says that the Empire had Interdictor cruisers, though there's no mention if the Death Star itself had gravity well generators. | |
| Oct 23, 2023 at 17:45 | comment | added | DavidW | If DS2 could interdict the attacking Rebel fleet at the Battle of Endor, they wouldn't have needed the Imperial fleet there to prevent the Rebels from escaping... (Recall that the Rebels used the Imperial fleet as cover to avoid DS2's superlaser.) | |
| Oct 23, 2023 at 17:33 | history | asked | CBredlow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |