The Ewoks Are Dead. All of them.

[C3PO]

You guys kill me. :rofl:

You're an Ewok?

PS: Sometimes this forum feels like a room full of Dr. Sheldon Coopers. The scary part is that it makes me feel right at home. :thumbup:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

It could have been worse.

 

[Andy44]

You're an Ewok?

PS: Sometimes this forum feels like a room full of Dr. Sheldon Coopers. The scary part is that it makes me feel right at home. :thumbup:

I work in a techie job, so I spend all day with guys talking about this stuff, then come home and log on to OF to get a second dose.

And I'm okay with that.

As for the OP, me and the guys at work have been over that ground before.

And I realized something else: the Death Star was not in orbit around Endor, it was held up by artificial means, which means that as soon as it's propulsion or anti-gravity device or whatever was holding it up stopped working, all that mass comes crashing down onto the surface of Endor, explosion or not!

How did I deduce this? Think back to the briefing scene with Mon Mothma (the "many Bothans died" scene). The hologram showed the Death Star at a fairly low altitude hovering directly above the ground shield generator station, which didn't even look like it was located exactly on the equator, meaning it was not in any sort of orbit whatsoever.

So yes, the only scenario in which life on Endor is not wiped out is one in which the Empire wins the battle and flies the Death Star away intact.

:facts:

 

[Zatnikitelman]

Endor may have one saving grace. I can't find a pic to illustrate this, but by the time the DSII exploded, the rebel fleet was between it and the moon. It is entirely possible that they projected an energy field between them to protect the moon from the worst of the explosion. It seems now that shields in the SW universe are a bit more common than we originally thought.

 

[N_Molson]

The storm trooper armor looks like plastic.

Yeah. It doesn't seem to help at all against lasers, even fired from hand-held weapons. They just drop like flies !

I hope it works well against conventional firearms and other kinetic weapons. Though that famous battle on Endor shows casualties from stick-and-stone arrows made and fired by the Ewoks. Pathetic. Or maybe it is really cheap plastic, and they just want a psychological effect. Palpatine could definitively think that way.

And I realized something else: the Death Star was not in orbit around Endor, it was held up by artificial means, which means that as soon as it's propulsion or anti-gravity device or whatever was holding it up stopped working, all that mass comes crashing down onto the surface of Endor, explosion or not!

Quite likely. Antigrav technology seems extremely common in Star Wars. If you have it on motorbikes or sport cars (say "speeders"), you can have it on an artificial moon powered by a behemoth fusion-like reactor. :lol:

 

[steph]

If the worst happened, SOME of them might have survived the initial impacts by hiding in caves, especially on the other side of the planet. But then again, the climate would've been toast.

 

[K_Jameson]

The "Endor Holocaust" is discussed by many years.
Here, for example:

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

 

[Loru]

IIRC DS2 was in orbit around Endor. After it's destruction there was debris field left in this place declared by New Republic a memorial and was off-limits.

Of course now this info is not canon but part of "legends"