Alternate 'Return of the Jedi' ending - Misjudged Effects

Another possible ending to Return of the Jedi in which the Rebel Alliance has performed poor due-diligence on the likely environmental effects of destroying the Death Star.
Sagemindsays...

Since I saw this the first time in theaters when I was a kid, This was my first thought - I mean, the death Star II was pretty big - It couldn't all burn up in the outer atmosphere. Some of it had to land on nearby systems right!?

kceaton1says...

>> ^Sagemind:

Since I saw this the first time in theaters when I was a kid, This was my first thought - I mean, the death Star II was pretty big - It couldn't all burn up in the outer atmosphere. Some of it had to land on nearby systems right!?


Actually the biggest problem is that they destroyed the power regulator for the station. The station uses a Type II artificial singularity device to power the core and the laser array (the "Death Ray").

The biggest problem is the power overload blew up the station which means the containment system for the power system failed. The artificial singularity slowly, due to gravity, fell to the core of the planet and devoured it. Later on it devoured the star for the system and then eventually the system.

But, don't worry Admiral Anthony "Ackbar" Hayward said it's all taken care of and he said at a press conference a month later that quote, "We'reeeeddbbb ssoohhoorrrrhhheeeee.".

Asmosays...

In the SWG MMO you actually find large chunks of the DStar's superstructure in the Endor zone where it crashed to the planet.

If we're going to accept the movie as canon, there's really not much left in that explosion. Conveniently reasserting disbelief to extrapolate environmental damage is a bit of a stretch... =)

But what the hell, you can only imagine how many toxic chemicals etc were released in to the environment from the sabotage of the shield generator station... *grin*

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