Originally posted by: Sam98034
Originally posted by: DB_Hunter
I dont think thats the case... u dont start building a massive space station like the death star without having blueprints or how to make the thing charted out... even if u dont make the same mistakes as u did before there is no way that you would be stupid enough to make 18 years worth of mistakes first time around.
The Death Star is HUGE. If they mess up somewhere and something falls apart or breaks down, it could set them back a few years maybe. Also, they could have built it 3/4 of the way, and figured out that there was a flaw and it couldn't work, so they had to start over...etc. Lots of things like that could happen, there could have been many changes to the design while they were building it. That's the most likely reason the second one didn't take so long, not many setbacks, and they already had already seen a working one, so they knew exactly how to make one. If you have a better reason that the first one took so long...I'm all ears.
That is NOT how engineering projects work... if you get 3/4 of a design or something and discover such a major flaw then really... well that doesnt even happen. Either the thing gets built fully and it fails cos aof a mistake no one knew about when its actually being used or you dont make mistakes like ur suggesting. Size is an important factor, but the size of the Death Star wouldn't mean that the difficulty associated in building it is proportional to its size.