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Message: <blockquote data-quote="QuaziquestGM" data-source="post: 6790695" data-attributes="member: 22559">But "menace" can be like an "inverse ninja" thing.  There is a tipping point where "More" isn't "better".  The 1-3 Velocaraptors chasing the "hero kids" in Jurassic Park seem more menacing than  the unseen pack of them grabbing mercenaries in the grassland in JP2, and the 1 T rex from Jurassic Park seems "objects in mirror" big and a real Lawyer and Mathematician eating threat , but the "just ate Jaws as a SeaWorld trick" moasaur  in Jurassic World is so big that it is merely a "eat the personal assistant as a South Park vs Chef"  joke  until it becomes a Checkoffs Dinosaur.  It is so big that it doesn't threaten the human heroes, it threatens the T rex size dinosaurs.   9/11 seemed real and threatening when you spend the day watching it live on the news, yet a months long ISIS led war killing many more people over many months seems somehow less threatening at times....Jr. Varsity even...  Godzilla movies have the same issue:  Too Small (USA) and it's not scary enough, but too big and he seems cartoonish cause you can't even make out the cars he is stepping on. It is hard to get the Goldilocks size for a threat, because it can get too big to process. But I don't have an issue with how the Resistance handled it. Anyone  who would be running in circles and panicking over the destruction of the Republic capital wouldn't be at the Resistance base anyway.  These are hardened warriors, the third generation to be doing this, with leadership who have been doing this sort of thing for more than 35 years...They are going to put aside their fear, anger, grief and do something about this Right Damn NOW before any other planet gets blown up, but they aren't going to go off half cocked either.  They are going to gather intel on the location of the Enemy weapon---Here it is! They drew a line in the heavens between Hosia and where they fired from. --  Gather intel on that position---with the scout ship they (probably) immediately launched to get long range scans while the x-wings were on their way to engage the first order forces at "cantina".  They will gather what signal and human intel they can --"No, New jacket. BTW, I've got a First Order defector with me...."   And probably 2-3 hours later they will gather to compare notes, and realizing they don't have long before this thing is reloaded, that THEY are the next target,  spend 4 minutes planning (cause are they really going to come up with a better plan in an hour? ""Throw everything we got at it before it kills us" is about as good as it gets in this timeframe. ) and then send the only fighters they have on-hand to go take care of this problem. Better in the air than on the targeted base anyway. This Death Star is already in range and cleared to fire. Launch fighters and hope Han gets that shield down in time... If it seemed to casual, it is because they are professionals who are used to long odds. Any rebel/resistor who momentarily gets awed "Look at the size of that thing!" will be deftly brought back into focus by experienced leadership. "Cut the chatter, Red Two.".   "So its big.  How do we blow it up? " says the Legendary General Han Solo who their leader Princess/Senator/General Organa followed into the ground assault on Endor... thank the gods he showed up today with a First Order defector who worked on the weapon.... If the old guys (Leia, Han Ackbar) are handling this calmly, that will keep the newer hands focused and on task...And Han was treating it as a suicide mission anyway, he just never mentioned it to anyone but Chewie (and he probably didn't even need to tell him). Plan A) get the shields down and die when the X wing strike blows up the planet.  Plan B) Explosives to blow it up our selves somehow if the x wing strike doesn't work. Plan C) Ram it with the Falcon, if it survived the landing.  "We aren't leaving with out her" was because he wasn't planning to leave at all. Sure, he would have tried to get away if it were an option, but he really had no way of knowing it would be a "Force 10 from Naverone" 'slow-motion' explosion after blasting the (Dam) oscillator.   Even if he had turned Ben and gotten back to the Falcon, if the x-wings weren't getting the job done, he would have flipped around and rammed it at near light speed.</blockquote>

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