OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter

[Gwaihir]

Correct, according to canon there was no ecological disaster. The site was different in that it agrued against the canon, based on a very wide variety of canon facts - basically, everything in the canon suggests that there should have been a disaster, except for the direct evidence that there wasn't - all the technology, all the visual evidence from the movies, and all of the known stats point to a necessary disaster.

The shield idea is neat, but a bit iffy - it was designed to go up and encircle the battle station, i believe guided at least in part by mechanisms on the station itself, and changing it to a flat planet-covering condition would have been pretty tough, especially since a lot of impacts would have come pretty rapidly after the explosion (bits aimed directly at the planet).

Hrm, wait, was the big hole oriented planetward? that would definitely help, then the might have been caught by the odd greavitational fields of the planet (which is mentioned as having odd gravitational effects that make hyperspace travel through the region messy, one reason it was picked as a secret location to construct the DS2.)

AFAIK, and as far as the pretty extensive research this fellow carried out states, there is no canon explanation of how Endor survived, it just *did.* I hate pointing out flaws in Star Wars, I'm a big fan, but that to me seems to be one. (at least there was no "big red button" on DS2 like there was on DS1, although among other big red buttons, a heavily shielded, turbolaser protected exhaust shaft is very reasonable)

Hrm, DS1, DS2 . . . DS9?? Makes you wonder, eh?

[Aloofi]

Yeah, but in SE4 the tonnage is in kilotons, not plain tons.
So that means that an unmodded Cruiser have 500 000 tonns.
Couldn't it be 500 meters long?

[Aloofi]

Hey, it seems like the part of the DS2 aiming to Endor is the one not yet finished, so in that case the bLast would send the debris away from Endor.

[Aloofi]

After reading all that stuff about the Executor it seems like a huge waste of resources.

[dogscoff]

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html

Here's the Endor link. I don't think you can argue against this kind of research Andres, but if you want to try I'll be listening with interest.

[Aloofi]

Is it there a direct fire weapon in SE4 that can replicate the Death Star's superlaser?
Can a direct fire weapon be given the "destroy small planet"?

[Suicide Junkie]

Sure, but you can't fire it and blow up a planet during combat

A core-mount Wave-Motion-Gun on a battlemoon replicates the effect fairly well, except it just glasses the planet with 13,000 damage instead of turning it into asteroids.