Talk:Destruction of Alderaan

Do we need two pictures about the explosion? - TopAce 17:36, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Small detail in ANH
I see this page has been expanded to include a battle around Alderaan while the DS main gun charged up. Interestingly enough, there's at least a pretext for both the Rebels having ships nearby as well as the DS having an escort. In ANH, you see the planet from two different sides on Tarkin's viewscreen, one would be from the DS POV, while another would be from the view of an escorting warship. There is also a painting by Ryan Church in his "in-universe photographic tour" from SW:Visionaries, showing a myriad of Rebel warships and transports gathering next to an Alderaanian city. VT-16 22:39, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

The 2 explosion pictures seem useful especially considering how much discussion their is in the community reagrding the power of the Death Stars blast and it's effects (The 1e38 joule calculation for example as well as it being a DET effect) not to mention the shield glow.

You can make out the glow spreading across a limited part, not most of the atmosphere pointing towards the DS. This is consistent with shield effects seen elsewhere in all six films, where energy from a blast lights up only the nearby area of a shield. Also, if the ray in the first "contact" images had hit the surface of an unsheltered planet, it would already show debris flying out from the hit surface, not a shield-glow effect.. VT-16 19:32, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Here's something more for the shield-debate, a series of screencaps I took from my DVD: BOOM

Number of dead
How many died in the blast, is it known? Kuralyov 03:00, 5 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia says the population of Alderaan was 2 billion beings. Somewhere I saw 8 billion, though, so I'm not sure what to believe. --Gurbiza 10:27, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't believe to Wikipedia. It's great for learning about the real world: history, literature, arts, and other interesting areas, but somehow I don't trust in it's Star Wars articles. I read many weird things there about Star Wars. - TopAce 19:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Imperial Spin
What was the propaganda about Alderaan's getting blasted? Did they try to say it was Rebel terrorism, or did they actually just flat-out tell everyone "We blew it up because they gave us crap, so suck on it" Commander Mike 03:11, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * They claimed that the Alderaanians had built a giant underground superweapon that misfired. It was in one of the Galaxywide Newsnets from Star Wars Gamer, I think. Kuralyov 03:17, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Feel free to add that intriging piece of evidence. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:23, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I can't remember the exact excuse, and I don't have the article on me. I'll try to find it, and maybe someone else has access to it? Kuralyov 03:25, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons alludes to that bit of Imperial spin. They don't use the terms "superweapon" or "misfire," but it mentions "titanic internal detonations". After this was exposed as a lie by pirated holoclips, the Empire pretty much then said "yeah, we did, but to prevent 'Bail Organa's biowar virus.'" Cyril 16:11, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Sort it out
Just a thought, but wouldn´t it be better if that battle-info tab(the Cmdr./strength/casulties and so on) would be given sepparate section,because in contains non-movie materials. E.g. stuff from EAW becasuse it says the planet was defended, and this contradicts the films:in ANH the Imps just came in and blew the planet up without any resistance. So please give this EU material in articles describing movie events separate section. Hominid 19:27, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

As this EU-rubbish about a battle of Alderaan is completely non-canon and actually contradicts G-canon it should be removed COMPLETELY! There was no battle whatsoever, not in the movie and not in the novelization so take it out.

if we are going to delte the battle, we might as well fix the box too that says who parpitcated. or should we delete this? or was something missed?

Completely remove it. I cannot believe how EU-infested wookiepedia is. Even strict G-canon is ignored.

Groode hdoge 21:48, 20 October 2006 (UTC) Oh yeah? What kind of canon is that? There WAS no battle in the movie, that is what is of interest here, not some made-up EU-crap. It contradicts G-canon in any way. Who by the way made up this crap?
 * The Battle of Alderaan is canon. --  I need a name  ( Complain here ) 21:50, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Made-up EU crap? So, you saying the movies are based on true events. Your pathetic attempts at making a point are quite laughable and annoying, troll.-- Lord Oblivion Sith holocron[[Image:Oldsith.png|30px]] 20:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Every sentient on Alderaan=Rebels?
Why do we have them under "Rebellion Losses"? Just because it was the Empire that killed them? They probably weren't all alligned to the Rebellion. Ijtzoi 15:50, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think he has a point. There were probably people who supported the Empire on the planet, though I doubt the Empire would care enough to count them among their casualties.-- Lord Oblivion Sith holocron[[Image:Oldsith.png|30px]] 18:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)