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I just looked at the quote regarding the Judicator enterting the Athega system in Heir To The Empire. Since several Trekkies try to disprove the numbers given by AOTC:ICS by saying that the Judicator absorbed only about 7 gigatonns per second when it was in the system so their shields are a lot lower than the ICS would incline, but they make one critical error, they allways believe that shields are capable of blocking the radiation from Athega even when there is absolutely zero evidence indicating that they could. Even when Thrawn speaks of the Judicator entering the system, he does not say a word of its shields, he only mentions that the ISD would be in direct sunlight for a few minutes and that its H-U-L-L could easilly withstand this, trekkies respond to this by claiming that the shields were almost immidietly overwhelmed by the radiation, BUT this would incline that shields can absorb less energy than the hull and armour of an ISD which is incorrect.
So what does this really give us? Simple, according to this, an ISD can easilly take direct sunlight from a superhot star to its hull for several minutes without being molten to a chunk of durasteel.Does this disprove AOTC;ICS? Nope..
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The Thrawn triology was great, but I don't think that it's figures would contradict the ICS, rather it would be the other way arround. I f I remember correctly ICS are "more official" than EU books.
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Quite true, however some Trekkies keep using this as their last ditch effort so i decided to post my thoughts of it.
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There is an old ASVS thread that deals with this, check out the archives for it.

And I posted what I could remember in the thread at SB.
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The star that Nkllon orbits is an enormously hot, unusual star. ISD's have also travelled between double stars, in the past, and closed to within a few thousand kilometers of one in another instance. Clearly the ISD is capable of withstanding most star's energy, but the Nkllon one was a very unusual one.
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Master of Ossus wrote:The star that Nkllon orbits is an enormously hot, unusual star. ISD's have also travelled between double stars, in the past, and closed to within a few thousand kilometers of one in another instance. Clearly the ISD is capable of withstanding most star's energy, but the Nkllon one was a very unusual one.
I don't think it was unusual...

Simply Nkllon was too close to it's sun to allow travel without shield-ships.
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Boba Fett wrote:
Master of Ossus wrote:The star that Nkllon orbits is an enormously hot, unusual star. ISD's have also travelled between double stars, in the past, and closed to within a few thousand kilometers of one in another instance. Clearly the ISD is capable of withstanding most star's energy, but the Nkllon one was a very unusual one.
I don't think it was unusual...

Simply Nkllon was too close to it's sun to allow travel without shield-ships.
Except if you look at Poe's site or consider the other evidence, they get much closer to much larger stars with no ill effects. So there's something different.
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There is a similar instance in Darksabre where ISD's have no problem with a sun whose planet had similar charactersitcs (distance from the sun) as Nkllon...
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EGTVV states Agetha has a "superhot" sun.
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Allso one other thing that i find very interesting that not a single piece of literature from the Heir To The Empire sourcebook to the Essential Guide To planets and moons, says a word about the effect of the radiation angainst shields.
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