Posted by: Pali
« on: June 05, 2016, 03:37:42 PM »Second Starkiller Base is an ice planet with atmosphere and forests: how can that survive a jump through hyperspace? Sekot was a sentient planet which suffered huge damage to it's surface environment whenever it moves, damage which which took decades to repair, while the Death Star was an entirely artificial construct where the surface was really just the outer hull.
With regards the consumption of the star to fuel the hyperlaser thing each shot may only have consumed part of the star, or perhaps originally Starkiller Base was in a binary system.
To the first: inertial compensators or the equivalent would take care of the problem. Always wondered why Sekot didn't have them, given all its other nifty biotech. If an X-Wing or Star Destroyer can hop into hyperspace without the crew or equipment undergoing any stresses, doing the same with a planet just means you need more or bigger compensators.
To the second: possible regarding the multiple shots per star, but we only see it fire once (with implications that this is the first time it's been used), and then it needs to eat a new star before it can fire again. While we're not shown the remnant of the star after it's eaten, enough of it is consumed to leave the planet dark, implying that most or all of the star is consumed (though perhaps this star was already partially consumed for the first shot?). As for being built in a binary system, habitable planets in a binary system are likely to be pretty rare, as a lot of binary systems would have planets in unstable orbits, but as I said above, rare in galactic terms means you'll still find plenty if you look. Still, given what we see in the movie, it's possible that Starkiller just sits in some system that had a lot of stars (why stop at binary?
) and shoots from there. Once while flying around in Elite Dangerous, I dropped into a system of a dozen stars, most orbiting a super-super-giant like they were planets. 
My intent here isn't to argue "this is how it must work", only to point out that saying it's a bullshit concept doesn't really fly when compared to other Star Wars tech.