Off hand , can anyone remember if the actual shield projector was destroyed , or just the control room.
Trying to come up with an argument that says the great ewok holocaust never happened.
Declan
There was a big explosion on a matte painting. A giant miniature radar dish exploded in a gasoline fireball. And then Admiral Ackbar said “Barsh garfabble bargle wab!” in Shrimp Talk, which meant, “The shield is down!”
Is that what you mean?
Both? I remember a satellite dish thingy blowing up, but I also remember Leah and Han hiding in the “blast doorway”.
Also, I would love to watch this argument you’re talking about.
eta: NERD FIGHT!
The shield generator, which was the giant radar dish array, was destroyed. The bunker was just the back door entrance to the same thing.
And so, the Ewoks perished.
And the people rejoiced! (Yeaaa!)
That huge dish blew up real good.
The “shields” around the Death Star prevented the Rebel ships, large and small, from getting near the station. Hence the big U-Turn Lando called for as the battle commenced. Unlike the first Star Wars where Ben turned off the tractor beam to allow the Millennium Falcon to escape, the shield generator was blown up rather than disabled. No getting around the Ewok Holocaust.
Dude, you need to read the X-Wing series. Then you’ll never rejoice again-don’t let the cute fool you. Those Ewoks are vicious little shits.
Guin (likes the Ewoks)
For those looking for a reference point: Endor Holocaust.
I know I’ve read a Star Wars comic where a former storm trooper is telling his horrific tale of fighting on Endor’s moon against the Ewoks, and at the end says something about how satisfied he was to find out that they all died in the Endor Holocaust, but then the guy he is speaking to in the bar tells him that it’s just an urban legend, and the Alliance was able to prevent it.
I think it was just in a Star Wars comic anthology I was flipping through at Borders, I can’t recall exactly which series it came from.
Luke Skywalker: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by Jedi Master Yoda with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Death Star.
French Stormtrooper: Well, I’ll ask him, but I don’t think he will be very keen. Uh, he’s already got one, you see.
Luke Skywalker: What?
C-3P0: He said they’ve already got one!
R2-D2: Tweet-tweetzip-parangwong
Luke Skywalker: Are you sure he’s got one?
French Stormtrooper: Oh yes, it’s very nice!
French Stormtrooper: (to other stormtroopers) I told him we already have one!
Other Stormtroopers: Hee-hee-hee!
Luke Skywalker: Can we come up and have a look?
French Stormtrooper: Of course not. You’re Rebellion types.
Luke Skywalker: What are you then?
French Stormtrooper: I’m French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly Jedi?
C-3P0: What are you doing on Endor?
French Stormtrooper: Mind your own business.
And now on to Scene 24. A smashing scene with some lovely acting…
Stranger
Looks like your nerd trivia recall function is a little rusty. That should be:
“And there was much rejoicing (yaaay!)”
Check the time stamp of my post. I’m forgiven any post that is pre-coffee.
In SW:ANH Luke Skywalker blew up the original Death Star, as it was standing by to blow up the jungle moon Yavin 4, with its rebel base.
After the events of ROTJ, Luke set up his Jedi Academy at the base, the jungle still alive and thriving.
Yavin 4 seemed to avoid holocaust.
AH…but couldn’t the jovian gas giant Yavin…with it’s massive gravitational (and perhaps electromagnetic) fields suck up all the DS debris and radiation?
Yes, of course.
Endor is referred to as a “forest moon”. Where is ITS planet?
Could that not suck up all the nastiness that would poison Endor?
The Mon Calamari ( :rolleyes: ) are one of the few species in the original trilogy that actually speaks “English”–with Ackbar himself sounding a bit like Bea Arthur with laryngitis.
It’s a trap!
Endor doesn’t have a planet. According to the novelization, its planet was destroyed long ago, so now Endor orbits its two stars by itself.
I think the key is that the Death Star would not have fired upon Yavin 4 at close range; it would have been quite distant on approach, and it was only waiting for its orbit to bring Yavin 4 above the planet’s horizon to fire.
The Death Star in construction above Endor was in a powered orbit, which it would have to be in order to be so close while remaining stationary relative to the surface. When it was destroyed, the vast amounts of debris would have nowhere to go but down.
I was hoping it was just the control room , but since both have gone boom that means that the republicans would have had to cobble up both the projector, which should not have been that hard and the control room, which could still exist. I know that the lucasverse says it gone man ,gone. But an organization like the empire would have dealt in redundancy but its a stretch.
Bottom like , as stealth potato has already mentioned , alot of steel is gonna rain down on endor.
For what I want to work
The Death star blows up , debris scatters in different directions , but the republican and whats left of the imperial navy are used to dealing with dirty systems, at some point this would be tracked and tagged, they should know some of its heading to endor.
The shield generator is probably powered by a core tap of geothermal energy, if the projector was destroyed , its not out of the realm of possiblilty that a new one or a jury rigged one could be produced.
The shield generator only has to work for several weeks at most, and probably only has to cover an arc of sky rather than the whole planet.
Thats it in a nutshell.
glubglub
Declan
I believe they were hiding in that doorway during the battle w the stormtroopers; after planting the explosives, wasn’t General Solo encouraging everyone to run away from the bunker to get away from the blast?
And I had never heard the term ‘Ewok Holocaust’ but I am so forming a band just so our fourth album can be a rock opera with that name. We’re going on tour with Queensryche.