How do star wars handle natural diaster?

ray245 · Post by **ray245** » 2006-02-20 05:18am

I often wonder how does star wars duel with problems like typhoons or global warming, I know it will be easy for them but i want to how to do they did it.

Any answer?

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2006-02-20 06:20am

I think Coruscant is a good example on how to handle global warming, and it's artificial! :P

All that heat from dwellings, powerplants, ship-traffic, and people still manage to survive on it. Has to be some effective apparatus keeping the air in check.

WyrdNyrd · Post by **WyrdNyrd** » 2006-02-20 07:09am

I guess they'd simply avoid it! Advanced seismological and meteorological science would be able to predict, or even avert, major natural disasters.

But even if the shit does hit the fan, having a huge industrial base with trillions of repulsor-lift rescue-craft at most a couple of hours of hyperspace away, helps evacuate survivors really quickly.

Plus the construction capability demonstrated by the construction droids on Coruscant. If your city falls apart, just rebuild it in a week!

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2006-02-20 10:23am

Given the tech level of StarWars. I would imagine there isn't a problem with Natural Disastors, virtually any massive disruption should be either anticapated and dealt with, or simply negated.

The real question is what happens to smaller, less in important worlds. Say you had an 'earth'. Perhaps close to 10 billion people, but not important enough for the massive tech of a world like Courscont.

If a massive disastor occured, I would assume the Empier or Republic (depending on when) would at least respond to help.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2006-02-20 10:39am

The Galactic Republic has had the ability outright rebuild the bioshere of a planet for about 4,000 years by the time of the clone wars (Telos was bombarded to a unliveble wasteland during the Jedi civil war (by the Sith under Darth Revan (though Malak gave the command)), but it's liveble when Qui-gon Jinn visits it later).

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-02-20 10:41am

One of the Lando Calrissian stories mentions there being massive weather control machinery upon one world; they also used said machinery to ensure that anybody trading with them didn't double-cross them as they could use the machinery to blow them out of the sky when leaving, so I'm not sure just how they worked. Details are sparse, I fear...

AK_Jedi · Post by **AK_Jedi** » 2006-02-20 01:15pm

A Han Solo story also featured a weather control device atop a huge tower. This device functioned by aiming at a forming storm and somehow dissipating it.

Even if they were unable to prevent natural disasters, there level of detection and transport infrastructure would likely be able to evacuate a threatened area.

Cos Dashit · Post by **Cos Dashit** » 2006-02-20 02:23pm

I doubt that events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes would give any civilized are such as Coruscant any grief. The buildings are probably strong enough so that these particular natural disasters wouldn't effect them at all.

Air traffic may shut down for a while if there is enough wind though.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » 2006-02-20 04:09pm

The only natural disaster that would test the Empire's resources to would be an star in an inhabited system going nova (ref: tales of the bountyhunters); and they should have a very long lead time for the evacuation, assuming it was some place that they gave a damn about.

SVPD · Post by **SVPD** » 2006-02-20 04:30pm

Natural disasters do seem to be an issue on worlds like Tattooine:

"Sandstorms are VERY dangerous"

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2006-02-20 04:36pm

SVPD wrote:Natural disasters do seem to be an issue on worlds like Tattooine:

"Sandstorms are VERY dangerous"

to unprotected humans (and a Gungan)

RThurmont · Post by **RThurmont** » 2006-02-20 04:53pm

Tatooine, in all probability, lacks the weather control systems or other luxuries of the more civilized worlds in the Core. Heck, I'd be suprised if Mos Eisley had a functioning sewer system...

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2006-02-20 07:08pm

RThurmont wrote:Tatooine, in all probability, lacks the weather control systems or other luxuries of the more civilized worlds in the Core. Heck, I'd be suprised if Mos Eisley had a functioning sewer system...

It actually does have a sewer system, though it's a little dated. Ref comes from the Wraith Squadron books, I think it was the firts one. One of the squad who's name i forget mentions catching a disease from an old leaky system when they are planning to give the crew of a Zsinji frigate a dose of shits so they don't have to meet face to face.

Post by **Surlethe** » 2006-02-20 07:50pm

Spartan wrote:The only natural disaster that would test the Empire's resources to would be an star in an inhabited system going nova (ref: tales of the bountyhunters); and they should have a very long lead time for the evacuation, assuming it was some place that they gave a damn about.

The Tales of the Bounty Hunters quote demonstrates the Empire wouldn't even notice a star going nova:

From pg. 301 of Tales of the Bounty Hunters hardcover: "In a sector of the galaxy Boba Fett had never heard of, a star went nova; it murdered a world and an entire sentient species. It aroused less comment than had the destruction of Alderaan, only a decade prior; the galaxy at large barely noticed the tragedy, and Fett never heard about it. In a galaxy with over four hundred billion stars, over twenty million intelligent species, such things are bound to happen."

(from the main site)

Cos Dashit · Post by **Cos Dashit** » 2006-02-20 08:11pm

SVPD wrote:Natural disasters do seem to be an issue on worlds like Tattooine:

"Sandstorms are VERY dangerous"

They obviously aren't dangerous to the buildings. The only thing they might do harm to is humans/aliens that were unprotected and vunerable to the wind and sands.

Does anyone know the wind force of the average sandstorm on Tatooine?

NRS Guardian · Post by **NRS Guardian** » 2006-02-20 08:13pm

On less developed worlds floods and such can still be a problem for some of the inhabitants, however smaller disasters on less developed worlds can still be handled by the planetary or system governments. During the starbuster plot the NR even with most of its ships down for maintenance could still evacuate the lesser populated worlds targeted by Centerpoint Station.

Lazarus · Post by **Lazarus** » 2006-02-21 05:28am

In NJO: Agents of Chaos II, the agri-world which Han visits controls its weather to improve food production, and the planetary government has the capability to call up huge rainstorms in a matter of minutes. I'm guessing that this equipment might be a bit too expensive for less important worlds, but surely having such an ability on planets like Corellia or Chandrila would be useful enough to outweigh what I imagine would be the cost.
This would presumably stop disasters like Hurricanes being any sort of threat. Given their technological ability, I presume that most anti-disaster measures would be preventative rather than damage control focused.

Tychu · Post by **Tychu** » 2006-02-21 12:17pm

ray245 wrote:I often wonder how does star wars duel with problems like typhoons or global warming, I know it will be easy for them but i want to how to do they did it.

Any answer?

they don't they fail misserably. They couldnt keep a planets star from going nova and couldnt figure out how to transplant the planets life to another planet because they were connecting to their suns radiation or something (deleted Padmè's bedroom scene Episode II) They are as bad as us

SVPD · Post by **SVPD** » 2006-02-21 01:13pm

Cos Dashit wrote:
SVPD wrote:Natural disasters do seem to be an issue on worlds like Tattooine:

"Sandstorms are VERY dangerous"
They obviously aren't dangerous to the buildings. The only thing they might do harm to is humans/aliens that were unprotected and vunerable to the wind and sands.

Does anyone know the wind force of the average sandstorm on Tatooine?

The point was that natural phenomena on poor worlds like Tatooine can be far more dangerous since they lack the resources of Naboo, Coruscant, or Corellia.

It would stand to reason that various parts of Tatooine suffer earthquakes from time to time, for example.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2006-02-21 02:22pm

Surlethe wrote:
From pg. 301 of Tales of the Bounty Hunters hardcover: "In a sector of the galaxy Boba Fett had never heard of, a star went nova; it murdered a world and an entire sentient species. It aroused less comment than had the destruction of Alderaan, only a decade prior; the galaxy at large barely noticed the tragedy, and Fett never heard about it. In a galaxy with over four hundred billion stars, over twenty million intelligent species, such things are bound to happen."

Chances are, if the entire species was there, they were primatives. Otherwise, I don't see why the Empire should take all that much note - a supernova would normally, superweapons aside - have millions of years warning. It's likely that the citizens of the empire, given how cheap starships are ("We could almost buy our own ship for that") would consider anyone on a developed planet killed by a supernova to be a complete moron who'd stayed when they should have left generations ago.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » 2006-02-22 12:56am

Surlethe wrote:

The Tales of the Bounty Hunters quote demonstrates the Empire wouldn't even notice a star going nova:

Don't be ridiculous. Ofcourse they noticed, they just didn't give a shit.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-02-23 05:59pm

A bit late for it, but SWTC has this:

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/highlights ... stureeater

A tower called a 'moisture eater'. It's like a Tatooine vaporator but much more amped-up.

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