So Star Wars ships need fuel?

It sounds like a silly question but I just suddenly asked myself it while I was thinking about some of the huge ships featured in the Star Wars universe. Just how exactly do you fuel Super Star Destroyers? Or the fucking Death Star? Their gas bills must be huuuuuuuuuuuuuge.

Or do ships in the Star Wars universe not need fuel?

And where's the canteen?!?

Ask yourself the amount of fuel lightsabers require. Then extrapolate to the amount of fuel a starship must require.

Obviously their source of energy is way beyond nuclear fusion.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hypermatter

I kinda thought they were just grinding up Ewoks for fuel.

Someone did a Youtube channel how much energy it would take to make a light sabre and it it was something like an entire city would power one light sabre. I forget his logic as to what exactly a light sabre needed so much energy.

They use the power of the Force, or dead Jedi knights.

Nomad said:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hypermatter

When tech companies give grants to the ministry of science you know your republic is screwed.

hardcore_gamer said:

It sounds like a silly question

It is.

hardcore_gamer said:

Just how exactly do you fuel Super Star Destroyers? Or the fucking Death Star? Their gas bills must be huuuuuuuuuuuuuge.

Even today's real world spaceships (that is to say, rockets) do not use gas.

TheCupboard said:

Obviously their source of energy is way beyond nuclear fusion.

This. There are too many devices in the Star Wars universe that seem to be extremely powerful or long-lasting, even though their source of energy can't be any big. Weapons, robots, everybody using the Force... It's kind of a plothole of Star Wars stories, which they simply filled with the Force and implied that other very-powerful energy sources exist as a standard. That's completely alright, they wanted to focus on other things in the stories than energetic problems.

Why ruin fantastic fictional worlds of fantasy (or games) with all that reality nonsense ?!??!?

When do jedi go to the toilet ?
What does doomguy eat inbetween levels ?
Why can a fat plumber with a red hat jump so high ?

And, how can a Star Trek transporter dissolve you 2000 kilometers away on a planet and magically transport your particles to their ship ?

FireFish said:

When do jedi go to the toilet ?
What does doomguy eat inbetween levels ?
Why can a fat plumber with a red hat jump so high ?

And, how can a Star Trek transporter dissolve you 2000 kilometers away on a planet and magically transport your particles to their ship ?

These are all questions I NEED answered, or else I'll go through the rest of my life with them unanswered! A fate worse than death, I tell ya!

FireFish said:

When do jedi go to the toilet ?
What does doomguy eat inbetween levels ?
Why can a fat plumber with a red hat jump so high ?

And, how can a Star Trek transporter dissolve you 2000 kilometers away on a planet and magically transport your particles to their ship ?

Jedi&Toilets: Toilets come to the jedi or force hold.
Doomguy between levels: His suit reabsorbs liquids and stuff and makes them into drinkable water and edible pellets.
Red hatted fat plumbers: It's the hat! It makes him do things. Or he's full of gas from all the force holding.
Star Trek: They do it with mirrors, huge magnets and acid.

Jimi said:

Jedi&Toilets: Toilets come to the jedi or force hold.

This made me laugh hard. :)

FireFish said:

And, how can a Star Trek transporter dissolve you 2000 kilometers away on a planet and magically transport your particles to their ship ?

This one actually pops up all the time when it comes to teleportation. Particularly that it equals to killing the crew members and rebuilding their perfect clones somewhere else. Kirk is the original Kenny from South Park.

I just thought of another problem with the death star: how do you feed everyone? Doesn't the death star have like a million crew members? It's basically a city. It would need massive support from the outside world just like a real city, except that according to wookipedia the location of the death star is always a secret, so how does this work?

Jimi said:

Jedi&Toilets: Toilets come to the jedi or force hold.

I've long suspected that jedi are full of shit.

hardcore_gamer said:

I just thought of another problem with the death star: how do you feed everyone?

No problem, each race/species on board has a designated prey species. The fun part is getting the crew balance right so you don't break the food chain or consume all your technical specialists.

Well Tibanna gas from Bespin was said to be used in the Star Wars universe at least for building ships and so on.

edit: I apologize for this. I don't know what I'm doing sometimes. So I took down the neck beard comment. It helps no one.

Yes, we are all unattractive overweight nerds with a beard on our neck. [/sarcasm] [/irony]

1 ; In episode 3 Obi-wan and Anakin swim through fuel inside a trade federation cruiser.

OBI-WAN:The slightest charge from our sabers will send this ship into oblivion. That's why they've stopped shooting.

2 ; Maybe they import food... having farms and greenhouses on a giant moon sized ship sounds more like a rebel thing. A quarter fuel tank, a quarter food storage, a quarter generators, and a quarter of whatever you see in the movies... there is no official imagined explanation.

And there's a whole level of Dark Forces II dedicated to you crawling around a space ship refueling station.

Actually, the first Dark Forces also has a fuel station level. Two, in fact.

hardcore_gamer said:

I just thought of another problem with the death star: how do you feed everyone?

Solid and liquid waste recycling.

Plus, since obviously electrical energy (or energy in general) is not a problem in Star Wars, it doesn't matter how energy-intensive the process is. They could even gather space rocks or human waste, and transelementate them into juicy premium cuts of Kobe beef for everyone.

Maes said:

Solid and liquid waste recycling.

Have these "turd burgers" had any success? They don't sound like something I would eat had I any other option.

I guess it's not that dumb of an idea, but I'm sorry, I just can't get used to the idea of eating recycled shit.

Star Wars nerds have already written about how illogical the trash compactor on the Death Star is. Why go for such a method, instead of, say, venting into space, incineration, or proper recycling? I've come to the conclusion that the explanation is simple: they're actually dianoga farms. With its unique metabolism allowing it to digest most inedible things, the dianoga allows to transform any trash into food. First you feed it various refuse, and then you slaughter it and eat some yummy dianoga burger.

It helps that most of the station personnel are grown in vats by long-necked aliens. Part of the genetical engineering involved in the Empire's shock troops and other lowly grunts was aimed at giving them a taste for such literal junk food.

hardcore_gamer said:

I guess it's not that dumb of an idea, but I'm sorry, I just can't get used to the idea of eating recycled shit.

Well, the more traditional (and far more palatable) method is to feed the shit to pigs, and then eat the delicious sausages and prosciutto they turn into ;-)

BTW, what do you think caused the demonic invasion in Doom? Scientists were looking for a way to get lots of fresh meat without relying on supply ships or having to farm them in-situ, and thought that teleporting a pinky or two at a time and then slaughtering them, would be a good idea. Only that they got much more bacon than they could handle, tee-hee.

They eat a highly nutritious blend of soy and lentils called Soylent Green.

They could use about a thousan lithium/duetrium (Hydrogen) fusion nuclear plant or maybe 1000+? fission plants.

Besides, in the future large amounts of food will be compressible in a very small space, as Doomguy's sore bottom knows all too well.