If the fallout from the destruction of the Death Stsr was intended to smash into the planet side and cause an ELE, the rebel alliance did a piss poor job on their calculations as there was a literal party on the planet after the explosion which could be witnessed from the surface of Endor in the day time. A party with the Ewoks.
Yup. A celebration. To fix it into the Ewok's minds that what was coming next couldn't possibly been the fault of the "greatest ally", right? And then all of the rebel terrorists left, didn't they? How convenient. https://infogalactic.com/info/Nuclear_winter
First, don’t buy the propaganda. Second, the ELE wasn’t about crashing anything into the surface of the moon; it was a slow death by radioactive materials raining down over the years as the remains of the ships and battle station slowly entered orbital decay. The “Death Star” wasn’t even real or operational in capacity we were led to believe.
The second Death Star had a large, stationary superlaser, but not one capable of destroying planets, merely large enough to take out capital ships. You had a lot of “veteran” witnesses that would need to be convinced this was “real” in order to move on to the next phase of government under the so called “New Republic.”
Did you honestly believe that they could generate a second, operational Death Star in three years when it took over twenty to complete the first one?
Incidentally, the first Death Star was, in fact, genuine. The selection of Alderaan as the first official target was one agreed upon by the Alderaanian leadership, all members of Palpatine’s secret death cult, who willingly sacrificed themselves and the majority of their people for a massive blood ritual.
What they didn’t realize was that as part of this (((Jedi/Sith))) occult myth of “balance,” (((Palpatine))) was going to also allow for the destruction of the Death Star to even the scales and produce yet more death. He had gleaned the desired technology (mass concentration of energy) from the research, and had no interest in Tarkin as a rival.
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