Hah... I should explain (Rogue 1 Spoilers) (Gaming)

by cheapLEY , Monday, March 19, 2018, 18:44 (2237 days ago) @ Harmanimus

Except that the exhaust port is incidental to the fact that Galen Erso designed the reactor to have a catastrophic chain reaction from relatively minor damage. It's like everyone assuming the trench run was equatorial on the Death Star.

That's a fair point, I guess.

I still find it fundamentally less interesting that a good guy designed a flaw into the system rather than the more realistic idea that it was a massive project with tons of contractors and something got overlooked. They had to make a good guy responsible for it, rather than letting it remain the fact that the Empire had enough hubris to build a goddamn Death Star in the first place. The details aren't important, it's the fact that I fear that they're now going to dig into every single reference or unexplained throw away line in the original trilogy.