Say you have a star about to go unexpectedly supernova, you could use something like Centerpoint Station as an evacuation strategy by transporting the planet to a new star! There would be all manner of very high-level logistics to pull that off, the planetary placement to ensure correct seasonal shift being but one, but it would be an option. You can debate the 2003 invasion of Iraq for quite some time, but what is not in debate so much is the stupidity of the term of “dual-use” to prohibit supply of items via sanctions. Why is it dumb? The term refers to items that could be used to make weapons, but just about anything can be so. In this respect Centerpoint Station is perhaps the ultimate Star Wars example of dual-use technology. It certainly was not designed, nor intended, to be a weapon but it got used as one anyway.Īnd what does that in turn say about the peoples and leaders of the Star Wars galaxy? Consider what could be done with Centerpoint Station – it could blow up stars, yes, but it could also move planets through hyperspace, alter orbits of planets, even stars. To some it would be the ultimate device with which to play God, to others it would allow all manner of options for salvation never thought possible! Lando Calrissian theorized that a Centerpoint Station connected to the five planetary repulsors of the Corellian system would have galactic range! Now, on the one hand, that’s quite terrifying but on the other…
In contrast Centerpoint Station was created by its ancient builders to do just that – build! With Centerpoint Station we are no longer in the area of technology being created to kill but rather technology being perverted from its original aims!
A couple of weeks ago, my In Defense of Superweapons article omitted Centerpoint Station, save perhaps as a vague mention as falling into the ancient star-killing tech category. Some commentators wondered about that, which in turn led to this!Ĭenterpoint Station is, to me, quite different from all the other superweapons – for they were designed as weapons. All of them have a quite clear and defined intent – to kill and destroy on a mammoth scale! Centerpoint Station is not this. Oh sure, the Empire advanced the line that the Death Star was for asteroid clearance but the duplicity and lack of belief in the statement is obvious. The Death Star projects exist for one purpose: To terrify a galaxy back in line. (Although it could be said the designers or the Empire didn’t really consider the full implications of their success.)
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