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Tumblr post by arctic-hands:
When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?”. Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly “Borg Cube”, but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.
So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said “Death Star”.
So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.
Reply from evilsoup:
An image depicting the story of the "Judgment of Solomon", where Solomon is labelled "stargate fandom", and the two women are labelled "star trek fandom" and "star wars fandom". The Star Wars lady is standing grumpily with her hands on her hips, while the Star Trek woman gestures with open arms. Between the two of them, on the floor, is a baby in a wicker basket. Solomon sits over them in judgment.
The first death star has a very low fire rate. Like hours if not a day between shots. The Death Star 2 had a fire rate of minutes. I would assume they are fielding the DS2.
Also we see the DS2 handling small quick moving capital ships in RotJ
I find it hard to believe they could improve that much from one version to the next.
The first one was sabotaged at the design phase. We know of at least 1 flaw introduced, why not more?
I'm just going off of the specs you can find on wookiepedia, and the battle at the end of RotJ where we see the thing fire multiple shots
Also it isn't strictly canon, but in The Force Unleashed 1, they are test firing the DS1 every 30 seconds to a minute, well before the battle of Yavin
Legends somewhere said they shot the DS2 at fractional power. That's all they needed to pwn a Mon Cal cruiser.