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[AJStarhiker]

Like Zone said: Willful Suspension of disbelief.

[kv]

You saw how big the explosion was in the sky on Endor's forest moon in the movie. Even the explosion was smaller than the moon in our night sky.

Here's what I'm thinking. The Destroyer fleet sits there, and the Rebels are forced to move closer to engage. The Death Star follows suite, moving further and further away from the forest moon (and our crispy ewoks).

When the shield goes down, the Death Star doesn't sit there- it tries to make a run for it! So the Death Star is even further away when Lando manages to destroy the core.

Far enough away that it shows up as this tiny explosion in the sky for our happy (and not crispy) Ewoks.

Just my .02Y

  -kv

[Gabriel]

Or you could say that all of the creatures on the planet, what with it being FULL of happy little critters, all used the Force to help save the planet and deflect the energy into the planet, you know, the planet that was never EVER mentioned which endor actually orbits.

Gabriel

[kv]

Endor is the planet. The Ewoks live on the 'forest moon of Endor.'

  -kv

[AJStarhiker]

Well, you also have to remember the Death Star wasn't complete.  The weapon was finished (Duh) but there were entire sections that hadn't been built yet, and I'm guessing there were plenty of sections that were little more than welded struts (Or whatever the equivilant is.)  It's still plenty massive, but not quite as bad as it would be if it had been completed.

[Gabriel]

Ok, so the size of half a moon. That's is still FAR too big to have no effect on the environment.

And as for the planet being named Endor, I always thought calling it the "forrest moon of Endor" was a descriptive of the name, like say, "the desert planet of Tattooine". So if Endor was the planet, what was the moon called?? And how big was Endor to have an inhabitable moon orbiting it???

Gabriel

[Jester]

ya know, after reading this thread, my geek level rose about 50% by proxy. I gotta go puke now...

[Gabriel]

Says the man who has discussed hyperdrive technology at the top of his lungs while walking through the mall.

Gabriel (yep, I was there)

[mercy]

as for the debris falling only a portion of it woul,d have hit the moon

[kv]

Well, yeah, with a circular object, an explosion would extend in all directions.
Stupid Lucas and his stupid 'Ring of Distruction.' >:/

Anyway, I didn't really think about it until I played Knights of the Old Republic, where you actually land on moons of planets, most of which are habitable.

I was thinking that it was a little out of the way planet (Endor), and the 'forest moon' was used to differenciate from say, the desert moon, or the uninhabital moon. I mean, how many moons does Endor even have?

  -kv

[AJStarhiker]

Dunno, but Yavin has at least four, two of which are inhabitable.

Yavin IV (Which is where the Rebels hid out in A New Hope) and another (Don't remember which one, but I seem to remember the Solo kids went there at some point during their Jedi training).

[kv]

Yeah... you would think- they have this whole galaxy- how many times are they going to end up on Yavin and Tattooine?

  -kv

[AJStarhiker]

It's only because they're two of the better known locales among casual fans

[kv]

I like the "Knights of the Old Republic" take on it. It doesn't matter, so make up new planets, as well as revisiting old ones. I was more than a little dissapointed that they had Anakin come from Tattooine- it would have made more sense for his 'aunt' and 'uncle' to actually just have been friends of the republic, who had a falling out with Obi-Wan. Or something.

Gayness. Darth Vader never apparently thought to himself, "Where are my kids? I'm a super-powered force user, but it never occurs to me to give my half-brother a call."

  -kv

[Gabriel]

Thta's because GL is a TOTAL DOUCHE BAG and untalented hack. He probably thought it added symetry or something.

Gabriel