How Foundations Invictus Compares To Star Wars Death Star

How Foundation’s Invictus Compares To Star Wars’ Death Star

Foundation episode 7 introduced the Invictus, the ultimate Imperial superweapon – but how does it compare to Star Wars’ famously powerful Death Star?

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How Foundations Invictus Compares To Star Wars Death Star

This article contains spoilers for Foundation episode 7.

Apple TV+’s Foundation has just introduced an Imperial superweapon – but how does it compare to Star Wars’ Death Star? When Hari Seldon’s followers headed out to the galaxy’s outer rim, settling on the planet Terminus, they believed they’d become mere observers to galactic affairs. Instead, it’s becoming clear Hari’s mastery of the arcane science of psychohistory allowed him to predict that the first Seldon Crisis, an event that would dictate the direction of galactic civilization, would happen out on the rim. He placed his Foundation there so his followers would be in the thick of it.

The Anacreons have come to Terminus. Their homeworld was ravaged by the Empire after they were blamed for the destruction of the Spacebridge, and they’re now seeking what they believe to be justice – by bringing the Empire down. It seems the Anacreons’ whole reason for coming to Foundation is their desire for the scientific knowledge they possess because they have stumbled upon a 700-year-old Imperial warship called the Invictus that they seek to repair. Described as a planet-killer, the Invictus is a weapon more powerful than anything possessed by the current Empire. Anacreon leader Phara, played by Kubbra Sait, intends to use the Invictus to destroy the Imperial capital of Trantor. While this superweapon will no doubt inspire comparisons with Star Wars, it’s important to note the Imperial battle cruiser was indeed present in Isaac Asimov’s original book.

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Although seemingly smaller than the Death Star, there’s a sense in which the Invictus is even more dangerous. According to dialogue in Asimov’s short stories, “It’s got atomic blasts capable of blowing up a planet, and a shield that could take a Q-beam without working up radiation.” In other words, not only is the Invictus a planet-killer, but it also possesses shields that can protect it against attack. The Invictus is armed with a network of smaller guns to prevent starfighters from getting up close, and these computer-operated turrets appear more sophisticated than those possessed by Star Wars’ Empire, aiming with a far greater degree of accuracy. There’s no thermal exhaust port introduced as a result of sabotage.

The Invictus’ greatest advantage over the Death Star is the fact it possesses a jump drive. Isaac Asimov was the one who first came up with hyperspace, and his version of this higher dimension allows for instantaneous travel. As he explained, “Through hyper-space, that unimaginable region that was neither space nor time, matter nor energy, something nor nothing, one could traverse the length of the Galaxy in the intervals between two neighboring instants of time.” The Invictus’ jump drive is malfunctioning, explaining why it has been lost for 700 years; it keeps jumping to random points in space, and the Anacreons were lucky to stumble upon it. This makes the Invictus far more dangerous than the Death Star because Foundation’s superweapon can instantly jump between worlds. Imagine the Invictus appearing, destroying a world, then vanishing to a distant corner of the galaxy. Foundation’s space travel is faster than Star Wars’, and this has suddenly become very important indeed.

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The interesting question, of course, is just why the Empire stopped constructing superweapons like the Invictus. It’s possible they were too resource-intensive, and thus they weren’t viable; it’s also possible the Empire believed itself so stable it no longer needed such vessels. But an alternative possibility is that the Invictus’ jump drive malfunction proved to be a common problem for ships of a certain size, forcing Foundation’s Empire to abandon them. That would make the Invictus’ greatest strength a weakness – and it would make Star Wars’ Death Star a wiser superweapon.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/foundation-tv-series-invictus-star-wars-death-star/

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