But then I ask: define the word planet.Lord Edam wrote:I believe the standard response to that is "Dankayo is a planet not an airless moon". ie, because it's called "a planet", and has "a small rebel adminsitrative base" on it, it must by definition be a habitable planet.Mr. Oragahn wrote:Sorry playing the necromancer, and double sorry if it was already said, but isn't it possible that Dankayo actually was a small planetoid, and that the atmosphere talked about was the atmosphere of the base?
the fact that boiling off the entire atmosphere & top soil of a habitable planet would be severe overkill for capturing a small administrative base is conveniently ignored in favour of Big Numbers.
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Ah blah blah, when the book was written, planet was defined as blah blah, etc.
EDIT: the fact that Dankayo's surface was evenly cratered is the element which proves that the bombardment was not focused on the base only but over a large area, if not the whole surface.
Yet, the line from Scavenger Hunt is worded in such a way that you can think the atmosphere in question is the base's one.
Indeed, I don't get the point of the mop up if the whole surface has been torched, crackled, slagged and whatever, and if the people who might have survived down the deeper levels of the base would actually be blocked by ruins and solidified lava. They'd soon die. No air recycler. Limited food supplies and probably no medical antenna.AnonymousRedShirtEnsign wrote:So is the fact a mop up detail was dispatched to finish the Rebels which would be completely unnecessary if ISDs had GT level weapons.
But whatever, I guess any excuse is good to make thigns more epic than necessary... or possible.