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Posted: 2004-02-29 02:51pm
by Tribun
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.
Posted: 2004-02-29 03:00pm
by CaptainChewbacca
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.
Posted: 2004-02-29 03:11pm
by consequences
Creating a grav generator with a carefully calculated output to maintain Alderaan as a paradise is certainly not outside the OR's capabilities.
Posted: 2004-02-29 03:19pm
by CaptainChewbacca
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.
Posted: 2004-02-29 03:23pm
by Tribun
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.
Posted: 2004-02-29 03:50pm
by CaptainChewbacca
So... does the SE explosion corroborate the existence of an artificial-gravity station orbiting alderaan? Have we made a breakthrough in SW Lore?
Posted: 2004-02-29 04:31pm
by Tribun
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.
Posted: 2004-02-29 06:11pm
by Solauren
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
Posted: 2004-02-29 07:31pm
by CaptainChewbacca
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.
Posted: 2004-02-29 08:28pm
by Illuminatus Primus
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.
Posted: 2004-03-01 04:59am
by Drooling Iguana
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!