Completely unwatchable. Don’t these show runners know the logistics of creating a moon-sized laser powered planet destroying space station that can travel faster than the speed of light through space???

The fact that it’s almost completed 5 years before it’s ready to use makes NO SENSE AT ALL

The interior is probably unfinished lol.

I dont believe the movies/shows have really touched on this much (which is a shame), but my understanding is that the biggest difficulty in constructing the Death Star is to get the superlaser working right.

The Catalyst Rogue One prequel novel goes into this a lot, and you hear some brief mentions of it in Rogue One (Krennic tells Galen that the work has stalled in his absence, Galen's contribution to the Death Star is his work with kyber crystals which power the superlaser).

Could be building it outside in, with the fact it's a moon sized structure that's still an insane amount of work to do.

Yes. Because something keeps holding up the development. At this point it looks like the design is finalized since they are constructing it.

But components like power source and stuff aren’t necessarily ready. Galen Erso stalls it a bit wherever he can. There is also an episode of Rebels with a giant crystal that gets destroyed that obviously was meant to go to the Death Star project. I imagine finding suitable crystals took time as well.

For all we know, there might be issues during the construction in the next 5 years.

tbf they just lost a shit load of slave workers

the clip could be five years in the future

I think you see the dish installed fully in Rogue One? Unless I am misremembering a scene.

But the situation at the prison and others might delay construction.

but what about the contractors man!

No reason that couldn't have been a flash forward a few years.