So? Who really cares? Sure, the mass would be greater, BUT you'd be able to SEE the dust, and it wouldn't all hit at once.Illuminatus Primus wrote:This is idiotic; the amount of dust you're talking about would exceed the mass of the threatening asteroids anyway.Praxis wrote:Yes, I know this would take a whole LOT of dust or gas. However, with the industrial capability of Star Wars- the ability to move the entire OCEAN of a planet- it shouldn't be too hard. A few thousand freighters later and there will be a thick dust cloud around Coruscant. Look for spots in the cloud that have gaps in the dust...there ya go.
Once you get all the asteroids, let the gravity of the planet pull the dust into the atmosphere...and shields.
Should be quite a light show.
It would point out the asteroids. Then you nuke the asteroids, and either:
a) wait for all the dust to impact the shields and burn out over a couple days
b) use ships to clear the dust away, if you can find a way to do it well
Either way, Coruscant will be asteroid and dust-free within a few days.
If you recall, the danger with the asteroids is that if a ship was going through the planetary shields just when the asteroid did as well, it would impact the planet and kill thousands or millions.
Their solution was to keep the shields up, not let anyone through, and try to get a CGT array.
Since the dust won't remain in orbit but will be pulled down by the gravity, my dusting solution would point out the asteroids so they would be destroyed, then hit the shields and be zapped within a few hours or days.