One could easily argue, from there, that the guns were dialed down.The scene is a bit misleading however as the story this scene comes from had Vader wanting rebel prisoners and the gunner had simpathies for the rebellion and purpouslly killed everyone to keep Vader from having any prisoners. But still the two pics are rather telling.
Still, good scans there. :) I've never seen the one about the asteroids being destroyed.
Mojo
While some of the ICS stuff is definitively bogus, you still need to weigh the oppositiion's arguments as well.
I appreciate everyone responding, it was very interesting reading. Unfortunately I'm not anywhere near good enough yet to have valid arguments against your responses, and at this point I wouldn't even try, because watchdog has just changed my mind. Those two comparison shots have convinced me the ICS is bogus. Well done, man. It made me laugh out loud at the same time.
An EU source apparently says that Dankayo was used to introduce the magma troopers, and that it was a planet. Info from Wookieepedia.Mike DiCenso wrote:Unfortunately, we again do not to see the actual material from the back of the card. Is that Dankayo? If it is, it does not even seem to have an atmosphere at all, regardless of any bombardment. But here is what the actual "Scavenger Hunt" material had to say about the Dankayo BDZ incident:
"... to rendezvous at Dankayo and reduce the tiny base to molten slag. Even before the last of its atmosphere drifted away, before the dense clouds of atomized topsoil could begin to settle, Imperial transports Elusive and Timely, as well as a complement of TIE fighters, moved in to perform "mop-up" operations and a thorough search of Dankayo's now evenly-cratered surface."
-- Scavenger Hunt, p.3
As you can see, there is quite a bit of room for interpretation. Not suprisingly, Saxton goes for the most wanked out one he can manage. There is nothing here that tells us about Dankayo as a planet, and there is room enough to suggest that the atmosphere that is drifting away is from the base (the only thing "slagged" during the operation) itself. The fact that TIEs and troops were needed for mop-up ops suggests that the crust of the planet survived more intact than some would have us believe.
-Mike
Yet, it fails at citing the source. It is even more strange that for the number of BDZ and mop ups the imperials have executed, there's only two planets associated to those troopers: Dankayo (again, what source makes it a planet?) and Mustafar, a world we know does not strictly require magmaproof gear to be visited.
But it utterly fails at sticking with logic here. If the surface of that world was so badly damaged, what's the point of sending mop up forces and TIEs to patrol the surface, while the target was the rebel base, and when only the tiny rebel base was described as slagged.
I won't write you a tirade about how any rebel stuck in the bowels of the base would die soon or later anyway. Crushed structures, cracked earth and magma filling corridors and covering the world's surface... what's the point?
What's the point sending troops down in that mess, after all is nothing more than lava, instead of just patrolling the rest of the planet and blasting craters here and there, on suspicious reliefs?
I mean, that's like saying "oh, well, I know the Death Star's plans are somewhere on Alderaan, so first I'll blast it to bits, and then send ships and troopers in zero-suit to find them and look for any survivors."
Besides, there's the simple fact that all rebel ships had escaped. So that old tired "zero-escape" argument of a super fast procedure to prevent escapees does not apply here. TIEs were sent even after the damn bombardment.
Besides, there's obviously a measure of parsimony to apply here. The quote says that the rebel base was slagged. Yet, we know that there was at least one surviving tech (agent ZNT-8 I think), stuck in the lowest level of the base.
Besides, the imperials did recover datapacks.
So obviously, not all the base was slagged.
But I see it's okay to assume that for no valid reason, the whole world's surface was turned to lava.
I dealt with a Darth Timon guy who unwillingly represented the fanatical warsie side of the debate, in the following thread (brings you at page 12). Here, I also pointed out the absurdity of claiming that this ball of cheese is supposed to be a planet, with an atmosphere.