: I think it always depends on how much you're willing to hand wave. Star Wars
: has always had a flimsier sense of FTL travel than even something like
: Star Trek, and far away from hard sci-fi, so the fact that they could
: create a FTL death ray didn't bother me.

: What *did* was the fact that Starkiller base literally killed its star after
: what, two shots? But there's no actual indication draining off the mass of
: a star has any deleterious effects on the planet its orbiting, nor what
: the Empire's game plan is after they've destroyed that sun. Where do they
: get more fuel? You telling me they can stick that thing in hyperspace?

They just sucked out the flames right? http://www.live-counter.com/sun/ They couldn't have used up all its mass, could they?

Couldn't they just relight the star with a proton torpedo? Or a match?

Or maybe they just build another one, it can't take all that long.