Apr 21
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - Death Star II Reactor Core Assault Concept Art by Ralph McQuarrie
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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - Death Star II Reactor Core Assault Concept Art by Ralph McQuarrie
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Earth's Most Energetic Lasers National Ignition Facility [USA]
The Reactor
Sorry but I've been really busy so I'm posting several new builds in my "panel" series. This is heavy with two brass machined beads around a green filament. I filled the beads with resin before drilling out the hole. It's been securely attached to the wood panel with screws going all the way through.
The electrical wires are covered with a brass spring so it holds a uniform shape. I've embellished it with a small riveted copper "control panel" with three photo etched dials/gauge. Two brass hollow rivets sit either side. Like all my "panels" it is surrounded with brass riveted struts.
I used staggered brass spheres on the top of the panel - it reminds me of a church organ for some reason. On the base is a brass strut with crescent shape I added for some balance in the design. There are long brass "handles" on each side.
This ticks a lot of the usual mad scientist laboratory tropes - from the green glow through to the mysterious gauges. When it was finished it inspired me to build the first display stand. It rests on the angled rods and square dimpled beads with assorted metal textures and sleeves.
On the back is the battery module that holds a CR2032. It does require tools (pliers) to change the battery. There is a small on/off switch. I will include a standard brass chain with the piece.
Reactor Core [29×47] by Czepeku Sci-Fi / Hyperdrive Fleet
An aerial photo of the accident at Chernobyl, taken the day after the accident. The burning reactor core can be seen inside the ruined reactor hall.
For an aerial video of the reactor at this time, click here.
The true scale of the destruction is evident in this photo. Note the extensive debris field on the ground beside the reactor. The explosion did not destroy the entire core, and so the remaining fuel within the reactor core started to melt down a few hours after the explosion. The graphite remaining within the reactor was lit on fire, and it burned for several days. This combined with the melting fuel is where most of the initial contamination came from. You can see the burning fuel pile, which was literally red hot, inside the ruined building (the spots of white). Managing the flaming and melting reactor core was the first major crisis at Chernobyl after the explosion. It took almost three weeks to get the core under control and limit emissions of radioisotopes.
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It’s not the fall that kills you.
Luke, Maul, and Palpatine each lost something physical in their falls down the reactor shafts. Luke loses his right hand and lightsaber. Maul loses his legs. Palpatine loses his body. In addition to these physical losses, injuries, and apparent deaths, they lost more intangible things as well. Luke loses his innocence and the idealized version of a heroic father carried by a fatherless boy. Maul loses his apprenticeship and eventually his sanity. Palpatine loses his power and his Empire.
Luke losing his right hand while losing his duel to Vader symbolizes the loss of desire and power Luke had to avenge his father’s and his mentor’s deaths upon learning that Vader is his father. He is denied the honor and righteousness he thought killing Vader would bring him. The loss of his, formerly his father’s, lightsaber parallels the loss of the idealized image he held of his father, the Jedi who died a hero. I have a whole essay in me on the symbolism in the conclusion of Luke’s duel with Vader in Empire Strikes Back, but that’s a whole ‘nother post.
With the loss of his legs, and seemingly his life, Maul loses his Sith master and his apprenticeship. He loses everything that led him to that duel on Naboo in the first place, and he also loses the ability to move on from this point in his life. Despite the mechanical legs he eventually acquires, Maul is stuck in place. He loses his sanity and fixates on revenge against the Jedi who ruined his life.
Like Maul, Palpatine seemingly died in his fall down the reactor shaft. But while Palpatine loses his body, his spirit and consciousness remain and he manages to survive at the expense of using clone vessels. He loses the entirety of his physical being, and his apparent death costs him his Empire and power. He had decades of accumulated power bought with fear and human lives. In ‘death,’ he loses the ability to live independently of other people but continues to subject them to his will. His body and empire is gone, but what power he retains in the continued existence of his consciousness is still at the expense of other people’s lives.
Getting these two posts one after another like, “yeah the whole starship knows what happened in the reactor core”