Having watched the original Star Wars Trilogy again, I started thinking how stupid the Empire really was.

For starters, they built the Death Star (A New Hope) that had a weakness in the exhaust shaft into which Luke heroically launched the photons (or whatever). Blammo! No Death Star. Start over.

THEN! They build ANOTHER base station (Return of the Jedi) which basically had the SAME apple core weakness into which this time they FLY A GOD DAMNED SHIP RIGHT INTO!!!! Not just any ship like a small fighter, but the Millennium Falcon which is a huge frieghter (by comparison). Blammo! No more Death Star II.

I can't wait to see what Episode VII brings us? They might build the next one out of straw.