"The Endor Holocaust " Topic

"This document does not advocate or condone the extinction or betrayal of ewoks, it merely reports upon a physical situation and the acts involved.

The circumstances at the end of Return of the Jedi lead inevitably to an environmental disaster on the Endor moon. The explosion of a small artificial moon in low orbit sends a meteoric rain onto the ewok sanctuary, on a scale unmatched since Endor formed. Through either direct atmospheric injection of small particles, or showers of ejecta from large impacts, the atmosphere will be filled with smoke and fallout causing a gargantuan nuclear-winter effect.

The rebel fleet may have been able to apply shields and tractor beams to deflect the largest pieces to impact on parts of the Endorian globe other than where the surface strike team was taking shelter. However a general climatological catastrophe was unavoidable. Averting the disaster would have required physical action on a scale greater than the construction of a Death Star, within minutes of the battle station's explosion…"
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Not to mention the fact that the Imperial fleet, although having lost its flag ship, was more or less intact and still outnumbered the Rebels so they wouldn't have had the chance to react and save those furry little partisans. Oh wait, thats right, the fleet instantaneously fled as soon as the DSII exploded.

I always hated that, even as a kid.

I think there's a whole trope about this phenomenon over at TVTropes.com.

They do know it's all made up….right?

Sometimes there is a good reason PhD's take over four years to finish. Sometimes there is not a good one.

Star Wars was never SCIENCE fiction. It was always fantasy.
So, when the Death Star II blew up, it just went away.

Agreed. The Ewoks are far too cute and mystical to be harmed in anyway.

This is not the planetoid disaster your looking for, move along please.

Agreed. The Ewoks are far too cute and mystical to be harmed in anyway.

…even if they are cannibals…

Genocide is too good for the little furry ****s.

The survivors should be neutered and used for "Space Carnivals".

the explosion was more of an 'implosion'…..(along the lines of the electromagnetic fusion implosion that 'blew' the moon away from earth in Space:1999).

The 'explosions'…actually opened up 'rifts' in time and space that the moon 'fell into' (as a high velocity?) and the bulk of the Death Star (1 and 2), disappeared into…thus spareing us us any other 'handwavium generator' use!

Oh yes kill off the Ewoks.

Then we can go after Jar Jar.

Don't care, I hate ewoks just as much as jar jar binks. When playing Star Wars Battlefront always play as a stormtrooper and love blasting the critters.

The problem, of course, is that the film doesn't depict an ecological disaster of any sort, ergo, there wasn't one. So something in the nature of the DS 2, or the explosion, or the Rebels' capabilities, or Endor itself prevented the holocaust from occurring. My challenge to the author would be to discover what said reasons might be. That's the real challenge, after all.

Lardie the Great & Mithmee why do you have to bring up JAR JAR BINKS as he is my FAVORITE SW character I'm getting tired of all this JAR JAR bashing so why do you hate Mr Binks?

I like JAR JAR BINKS just as much as I HATE the lame ass Gold Butler C3PO with a passion if any SW character needs to be destroyed it's that gold butler.

A great scene would be Jar-Jar being feasted on by the little furry ****s just before several million tons of radioactive debris slam into Endor.Though that might be better than he deserves.

Patrick I have an even greater scene it's where that Gold Butler is being blasted apart by Stormtroopers and there's NO hope that he'll ever be rebuilt.

Also JAR JAR BINKS being much more smarter that those fuzzballs would never be caught in that type of situation plus why would he even go to Endor in the first place?

Thank goodness there was no native sentient life on Endor's moon.