Talk:The Endor Holocaust/@comment-25944809-20141231014916

The Death Star II was nowhere near the size of our Moon. The Moon has a diameter of almost 3500km, compared to the 2nd Death Star which had a radius of 160km according to Wookieepedia, alightly bigger than the 1st DS with it's diameter of 120km. This is all aside from the fact that the Moon is mostly comprised of solid rock and iron, whereas a DS (especially the DS2) would be mostly hollow and comprised of mainly steel girders and panels. The explosion you see when either of the DSs blew up would have separated them into thier component peices. I think it would be fair to assume that it would have created a very pretty 'meteor' shower over Endor, rather than a holocaust. Possibly a few of the bigger peices would have landed and caused a dent but not on the scale you're talking about.