Plot Holes Are Filled In

There have always been two large bones of contention for me in the reality of the Star Wars Universe. The first being, if you’re going to breed, or clone, or genetically manipulate an entire species to be your foot soldiers in a never ending, intergalactic war, maybe you shouldn’t make them all mindless idiots incapable of flushing a toilet without written instructions. Well now we know that The Empire did have elite death squads that were total badasses...that they blew the fuck up in an attempt to keep The Death Star plans secret. Honestly, these guys are the worst at contingency planning.

Total badasses - until the planet they’re on blows up

The flaw in the Death Star is intentional and planted there by a man who despised the Empire. This answers almost every pop-culture article about the weakness of the greatest sci-fi weapons ever conceived. How could a group that could build a mechanical moon capable of shooting a planet out of the sky miss such a simple flaw? What kind of engineer could design a system with such an obvious weakness? Apparently, their lead architect was there under protest and put a mechanical poop chute into the plans with hopes that the rebels would fire something up it, all because they took him from his daughter. That’s...love? I guess?