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My general science is shaky, but wouldn't a great deal of the mass of the Death Star have been consumed in that Great Big Explosion?
Well, an explosion tends to blow things out, not consume them. Being an explosion. And matter can neither be created nor destroyed, so it's gonna go SOMEWHERE.
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Well, perhaps it was a special explosion that managed to convert most of the matter into energy. And the Ewoks were simply irradiated.
And they mutated into much taller, hairier creatures, and resettled their race at a point in the distant past. Thus making Endor the Wookiee homeworld it was originally intended to be.
Or, well, maybe not.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: But the end of the film with Luke, Vadar and Palaptine was as good as anything in The Empire Stikes Back. Yes.
As long as you can fast-forward through all the scenes of idiotic teddy-bears handily taking out the Empire's elite forces, anyway.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Even a 160 km station (assuming only 1/5 entered the atmosphere) would cause immense damage: greater than any asteroid impact for certain.
That's why Rebel Fleet moved to shield Endor against any debris.
And if teddy-bears can handily take out the Empire's "elite forces", then there's no reason to assume that Rebel fleet failed to protect Endor
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I never understood why they were called B-wings. They look more like Ts.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Even a 160 km station (assuming only 1/5 entered the atmosphere) would cause immense damage: greater than any asteroid impact for certain.
That's why Rebel Fleet moved to shield Endor against any debris.
And if teddy-bears can handily take out the Empire's "elite forces", then there's no reason to assume that Rebel fleet failed to protect Endor
Shield Endor with what exactly?
It would've entered the atmosphere within an hor (at most) of the core being destroyed. If the Rebels had something that powerful, they'd have used it to shield thei capital ships from the super-laser.
Not that any "laser" should have done shit anyway, but I digress...
I suppose you could make a story of a daring race to the giant DirectTV dish/shield emitter to somehow (with Wesley Crusher's help) reverse the shield to deflect debris away from Endor.
Assuming they get past the AT-AT's guarding the dish (the ones that do NOTHING in the movie).
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Ah, but Wedge's X-Wing and the Falcon were armed with patented Deep Impact anti-comet bombs that can blast celestial objects into harmless visual effects.
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Suuuure! I forgot that SW vs. ST site that decalres a STar Destroyer's got enough powerin a single blast to destroy the multiverse based on cheaply composited VFX.
Silly me.
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Again, matter can't be created or destroyed. You shoot an incoming chunk of metal, you'll melt it, break it into two chunks, something, but it'll still be headed for the moon and it'll still be lots of dust in the atmosphere when it gets there. If you do that to an asteroid or something that's far enough away you MIGHT actually deflect it, but this debris would have hit Endor within minutes. And tractor beams would only work if you had freaking lots of them, because we're still talking about millions of tiny chunks. If they had that many tractor beams, they could play eight-ball with the death star.
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Anakin Skywalker wasn't quite dead yet, so he and Luke combined their Force powers to deflect all the debris away from Endor. And then Anakin died.
See, it even explains why we never saw him disappear like Obi-Wan and Yoda.
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"That's why Rebel Fleet moved to shield Endor against any debris."
The fleet moved because getting caught in the explosion would have been a Bad Thing for the ships in it.
"what happens with the matter that was vaporized?"
In the real world, it'd have been converted into energy. Lots and lots of energy. Enough to reduce Endor to a lifeless rock.
In the real world.
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