Rogue One: A Star Wars Story/IMDB Corrections

## Trivia

1. When Chirrut, Jyn, Cassian, and Baze are being led around with hoods over their heads, Chirrut is the only one who doesn't stumble. **He’s used to walking around without being able to see where he is going – the others aren’t.**
2. The giant laser dish is the last part added to the original Death Star to make it complete. The second Death Star in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) has its laser dish already attached (and fully operational) even when the station's superstructure was still incomplete. **Installing the superlaser disk first, and building the structure around it, may have been done in an attempt to ease construction and/or reduce the station’s vulnerability.**
3. Jyn finds out the Empire is doing research on hyperspace tracking. The next released SW movie, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017), sees the First Order using a device that allows them to do just that 34 years later. **This was probably created to overcome flaws with the homing beacon based system then in use, such as the requirement for the ship being tracked to a) have a homing beacon hidden on board and b) cross the path of a HoloNet Communication signal.**
4. The name of Rogue Squadron, the group of pilots led by Luke Skywalker at the Battle of Hoth, is retroactively revealed to be inspired by Jyn's team, which chose the name "Rogue One" as its call sign. **The reuse of the name Rogue could have been done out of a desire to posthumously honour the team who sacrificed themselves, to ultimately ensure the success of the Alliance’s attack of the Death Star.**

## Audio/visual unsynchronised

1. When the Imperial officers in the main tower see the explosions on the landing pads, the sound reaches them simultaneously. The distant landing pads are about a kilometre or so from the main tower, so there should have been a brief delay of a few seconds before the sound reaches them. **The outpost could be fitted with external audio surveillance equipment, which likely detected and transmitted the sound of the explosions directly to the main tower.**

## Continuity

1. During the epic struggle to steal and transmit the Death Star plans, the Death Star is functional. However, in episode IV, the Death Star is not operational until long after the plans are with R2-D2.**These terms are not interchangeable. Functional means that basic systems, such as life support, are working. Operational means the station is completely ready to carry out it’s mission.**
2. Darth Vader's Star Destroyer has 2 gun turrets on the bow. These turrets were not present on his ship in Episode 4 (which takes precedence in canon).**They may have been ejected as too badly damaged to repair, between the two appearances.**
3. A corridor and platform lead to Princess Leia's ship from the back; this is most evident when Vader stands on the platform as the ship flies away. However, the ship doesn't have a hatch in the back; there's only the engines and thrust nozzles. **There could be a narrow one between the upper middle engines.**
4. Galen lies dying on the platform in the pouring rain. A moment later, as Cassian grabs Jyn's arm and forces her to run with him, the camera closes in on Galen's body. There's no rain falling. **This could be due to weather modification.**
5. After Jyn and Cassian transmit the schematics and drop down from the antenna, Jyn opens a door by pressing the top 2 buttons on the panel. When the camera angle changes, her fingers are on the bottom 2 buttons. **She could have shifted her hand after pressing the buttons.**

## Miscellaneous

1. On Eadu, when Krennic's shuttle takes off, Jyn is blown backwards, but Galen is not. **Galen is flat on the ground (the blast passes above him) while Jyn is not, so the blast affects her.**

## Incorrectly regarded as goofs

1. During the space battle over Scarif, in one shot of Gold Leader's Y-Wing cockpit, the edge of the Death Star's equatorial trench can be seen through the back window of the cockpit behind him. This is reused footage from the rebel attack on the Death Star from Star Wars. **Actually, while it is re-used footage, the background has been digitally altered to be the shield gate.**
2. When the actual Death Star schematic is shown on a screen, it has an error - the superlaser dish is shown on the equatorial trench; it is actually above this trench, not on it. **This may be a deliberate error done as a throwback to Star Wars, which has the same apparent goof. (An in universe explanation could be the initial idea was to have the superlaser on the equator.)**
3. A giant Jedi statue, lying in the sand, is at first lying on its left side (like in Trailer #2), but zooming out, it is lying on its right side. **As it may look like this on casual observation, there are actually at least two toppled Jedi statues in the vicinity. The one the group passes at the beginning of the scene can be seen in the scene's very last shot to the far left of the frame.**
4. As the rebels are setting charges on Scarif, they twist them to, presumably, arm them. The second or third charge never gets twisted. **Activating one may be all that is needed to detonate all of them, as they may well be linked.**
5. At Jedha, in the wide shots, the Death Star is upside down as shown by the superlaser dish being on the bottom half of the station when it should be on the top half. **The Death Star was rotated into this position for the attack. There's nothing inherently wrong with doing this in space since there is no true up or down in zero gravity.**
6. When Darth Vader attacks the Alderaan troopers in the corridor, he uses the Force to disarm four of the last five troopers before the door. Vader telekinetically "grabs" the troopers' laser rifles and "yanks" them out of their hands so that the four rifles fly backwards over Vader's shoulders into the corridor behind him. Vader then kills two of them, which should leave three, and yet after a cut there are still four, and at least two of them armed. **However, there are actually six troops before the door, not five, so the numbers are correct.**
7. The Death Star plans are passed, by hand, through a closing airlock door, on the same data disk/card Princess Leia apparently uses to transfer the plans to R2-D2 in Star Wars; however, in A New Hope, Darth Vader describes the Death Star plans having been beamed to the ship by spies, not delivered by hand. **The Death Star Plans are beamed to the flagship, which are then downloaded to the disk and given to the princess aboard the Tantive IV.**