User:Yaahg D'sow/Endor Holocaust

Endor Holocaust
To those who have never heard about it: There is a discussion going on among fans, who claim, that the debris from the Death Star rained down on the moon, destroying the ecology, killing all the Ewoks and giving the triumph of the Alliance a bad aftertaste. There are claims, that the Rebels prevented all the debris from falling on the moon, simply by shooting it down, given the enormous amount of metal scraps, that must have rained down, this is highly unlikely. There is talk about a other imperial shield generators, but they would have just protected the victory celebrations, leaving the rest of the world to die, which doesn't seem like a realistic version. Why would the Empire protect any area of Endor other than the immediate surroundings of their base? There are two movies set after the Battle of Endor: Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: Battle for Endor showing the ecology to be perfectly intact. There are also various comic books and a TV series with a healthy looking Endor being the stage.

It has to be noted, that the depiction of the huge Battlestation in Endor's sky is in no proportion to it's depicted position and size in space. If you look at the scenes in space, Death Star II seems to loom almost at a Lagrange point between Endor and the Sanctuary moon, which would make sense for such a battle station. It wouldn't waste sithloads of energy for fighting the moon's gravity and if there were plans to blow up the moon in the unlikely case, that the rebels are actually successful, why would you want to be so close to the explosion? I suppose the gas giant Endor has a powerful gravity field, which explains, why the Lagrange point would be closer to the moon. I'm not sure about this - the hologram the rebels use in the briefing room, shows the station to be extremely close to the moon, but that could have been just for visual demonstration of the shield and not actual scale. The proportions in space vary greatly from scene to scene. We see the Death Star as a huge celestial body in the sky over Endor's moon, with its superlaser clearly visible, as well as other details, which really wouldn't show, if the death star was really less than 1000km across, even at the closest imaginable point, so it has to be considered a mistake. We see the moon bulge from the Emperor's throne room, which gives some substance to my theory. The debris of the Death Star would just have dissolved between Endor and its moon, maybe forming a ring around the planet Endor. I disregard any information about the planet Endor "vanishing" or "being destroyed", if such a disaster really happened with the moon already populated, we shouldn't be discussing such a minor event like a death star meteor shower.