QuoteWhat does SM say about it?
I already know what SM says (he said it a couple pages ago), I'm asking you.
QuoteI don't recall the SW EU ever addressing the inevitable physical consequences of the DS2's explosion over Endor.
Yep, the Rebel fleet anticipated the debris raining down on Endor so they intercepted it in orbit before it could do any damage.
There's a particularly funny comic about an Imperial veteran several decades after Endor, sitting in a bar and telling his story of how the vicious, savage Ewoks methodically dismantled his stormtrooper squad, and he ends his story with "the only thing that lets me sleep at night is the knowledge that the Ewoks all burned in hell when the Death Star's debris rained down on their forest", and another bar patron chimes in and says, "Uhh the Rebel fleet intercepted all of the debris, the Ewoks are fine, dude." And the Imperial veteran has this thousand-yard stare on his face. It's pretty great.
The DS2 debris interception gets mentioned in a couple other EU sources, too.
Quote from: 420Buddy on May 17, 2016, 05:54:25 PM
I like the decimal moving idea, its just easy and believable.
Much easier than trying to defy science with bullcraponium. The idea of the planet actually being that small is dumb, just move the decimal like the Tech Manual did.
Thank you.
Quote from: Perfect-Organism on May 17, 2016, 05:59:28 PM
What's great about the Aliens series is that it tries to stick to science. I mean it is still science fiction so there are some deviations, but for the most part, me don't have things like magic, time travel, the force, or the schwartz. So wherever it is possible to stick to reality, I think it is preferable. I would suggest that in future printings, a more realistic number for the planet's diameter is used, unless there is a hidden reason for the number being the way it is.
Don't get me wrong, there's potential for interesting stuff if the planet actually IS an Engineer construct and that's why it's impossibly dense, it's just that no source has even hinted at that. Like, an impossibly dense dwarf planet would be the astronomy find of the millennium, science probes would have picked up on it immediately and you've have science teams swarming all over the place just for its physical properties alone. Like, screw finding alien life, the planet itself would be more scientifically important. We're talking Solaris-level scientific importance and response, not just sending 150 colonists there to toil around in the dirt.
I really wish the WY Report had used some critical thinking and independent thought rather than slavish, dogmatic adherence to "the source material", because not only did it goof up LV-426's size, but it similarly goofed up LV-223 while it was at it (1400km diameter, lol). And LV-223 can't even be blamed on "the source material", since the WY Report was fabricating the number from whole cloth.
At least with the WY Report it can easily be chalked up to a typo "in universe".