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DarkBuster22904 posted...

Galen Erso.

He's the one who decided to rig the entire station to explode and kill everyone aboard. He could have rigged that reactor shot to just destroy the superweapon or something, had he wanted.

Thats reasonable to repair though. The whole thing blowing up means you gotta start from scratch while suffering enormous brain drain from losing a ton of your best guys. Its also a huge morale boost to rebels, morale loss for the empire.

Thats hundreds of billions if not trillions of credits, and damn near a whole planets worth of raw material, and a good ~decade of time which also takes a good deal of military might not fighting rebels to defend the site.

If the Death Star didnt blow the alliance wouldve taken many more years to succeed if it didnt simply get crushed.