A question that needs answering

[MurderousToaster]

It uses integrated thermal boosters combined with the infinite power of christ.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

The Death Star moved, it certainly wasn't built around Alderaan. It obviously has some kind of engine as it has exhaust ports, and as they're only 2 metres wide i would say that whatever they process would have to be massively efficiant, so lets say it's something like Antihydrogen atoms.

Actually I think it is powered by gravitational repulsors. But don't quote me on that.

 

[Laughing Man]

So one day Darth Vader and the Emperor are sitting in a bar having a piss up. They start throwing daft ideas about.

Emperor: I hate those furry bastard wookies I mean what are they all about. I recon my empire should pass a law stating that they get a shave and learn how to speak.

Darth Vader: Damn they are hairy bastards though. Imagine what would happen if you threw one of them in to a room full of balloons.

Emperor: (Laughs, before throttling bartender, using the force, for getting his sex on the beach wrong.) What... what if you took all those hairy idiots and stuck them together. Then say got a huge, I mean really fucking huge tread mill lined with balloons.

Darth Vader (Falls off stool)

Emperor: Right... right so the tread mill you start it running and then push them against it, dude that would be freaking awesome.

Darth Vader: Hahaha, imagine THE POWER, the static alone, you could use it to run... oh I dunno.... a ship the size of a small moon!!!

Darth Vader and the Emperor look at each other.

So there ya go a butt load of wookies, balloons and static electricity.

 

[PatientGrasshopper]

at the risk of sounding like a complete nerd, the fact that the death star has a lot of mass doesnt mean anything in space since its a vacuum, and theres no gravity.
thats one of the physics flaws in the star wars movies- since space is a vacuum there is no reason that a small ship would be quicker than a big ship. in fact, the big ships should be much much faster because they have bigger engines.

Exactly, also as far as thrust goes it would only require thrust to get it started because once it started it wouldn't stop unless more thrust was employed in the opposite direction.

 

[theklng]

plus, superluminal drives would only give so much. traveling across a galaxy would still take eons if going just by somewhere above lightspeed.

 

[Dr.Doctor]

Actually it moves on the power generated by a viking ship style rowing system at the bottom of the Death Star.

All powered by one stormtrooper.


He's in very good shape.

 

[Anarchemitis]

There is such thing as Non-thruster propulsion in Star Wars. Basically giant repulstorlifts that push and pull off of the gravitational fields of local stars.
And no, these feilds would not extend very short,
Our sun Sol has a gravitational field affecting about a 4 lightyear radius.