The DS and Alderaan's "Graveyard"

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2004-02-29 02:51pm

ANH novel clearly states that Alderaan had no moon.
The ANH movie shows that Alderaan had no moon.
both are canon, so Alderaan had no moon, end of debate.

And as a point of interest, even in games where the destruction of Alderaan is shown, it had no moon.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-02-29 03:00pm

Illuminatus Primus wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:I'm inclinded to go with the novel that it had no moon, regardless of how screwed up Alderaan would be without one.
Why do you say that?

If a planet doesn't have a large moon to stabilize it, the axis can wander SEVERELY. Earth's axis fluctuates between 21.5 and 24.5 degrees over a 40,000 year period. Mars, on the other hand, can fluctuate by as much as 50 degrees over only a few thousand years. That kind of thing can just kill a planet's weather.

Alderaan is described as an ecological paradise with rolling plains and warm oceans, and I don't know how that could be without a large moon.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2004-02-29 03:11pm

Creating a grav generator with a carefully calculated output to maintain Alderaan as a paradise is certainly not outside the OR's capabilities.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-02-29 03:19pm

consequences wrote:Creating a grav generator with a carefully calculated output to maintain Alderaan as a paradise is certainly not outside the OR's capabilities.

Maybe THAT is the orbiting 'Satellite' that the good General was on when the DS hit.

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2004-02-29 03:23pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:
consequences wrote:Creating a grav generator with a carefully calculated output to maintain Alderaan as a paradise is certainly not outside the OR's capabilities.
Maybe THAT is the orbiting 'Satellite' that the good General was on when the DS hit.

Oh.

If I my cite Poe's site:

TREK:
Initially, the original explosion is far more violent than the SE one, then after about 3/4 of a second the SE explosion hits some spacestation thing in orbit of Alderaan(top left of the planet) which gives a much more violent explosion.
Amazingly bad analysis. There is no such "spacestation thing" in orbit around Alderaan. If you're going to misinterpret the planet's cotinuing destruction as evidence of some invisible "spacestation thing", then you open yourself up to well deserved mockery.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-02-29 03:50pm

So... does the SE explosion corroborate the existence of an artificial-gravity station orbiting alderaan? Have we made a breakthrough in SW Lore?

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2004-02-29 04:31pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:So... does the SE explosion corroborate the existence of an artificial-gravity station orbiting alderaan? Have we made a breakthrough in SW Lore?

No.
There is nothing, nada, zilch in orbit around Alderaan. Live with it.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2004-02-29 06:11pm

yeah know, parking a moon in orbit is well withing the OR's capabilities.

Maybe it has an 'artifical moon', either man-built or placed into orbit

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-02-29 07:31pm

Tribun wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:So... does the SE explosion corroborate the existence of an artificial-gravity station orbiting alderaan? Have we made a breakthrough in SW Lore?
No.
There is nothing, nada, zilch in orbit around Alderaan. Live with it.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-02-29 08:28pm

Considering that Coruscant's natural cycles and systems must have been entirely artificially maintained, I don't see why Alderaan, being a post-hyperdrive colony could not have had her axis maintained artificially; or they might have simply not bothered, since weather can be entirely manipulated artifically as well.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2004-03-01 04:59am

Illuminatus Primus wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:I'm inclinded to go with the novel that it had no moon, regardless of how screwed up Alderaan would be without one.
Why do you say that?

It makes the tides go and we like it!