Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

[MarkB]

No, she was not cut out of planning. She was only cut out of tactical in that they were bringing in someone who would be willing to kill Imperials to get the job done. She was given 48 hours to come up with something.

Yeah, no. She was given 48 hours to finalise the withdrawal of valued Imperial citizens into the Imperial base so that they could subsequently be evacuated, and was still technically in charge to the precise extent that she was obliged to actually give the order once everything was in place, just so that the whole thing would have her name on it. Beyond that she had zero input into how any of it went down.

 

[Celebrim]

Pretty sure the mining was predicted to cause total biosphere collapse. So 100% fatalities.

The Ghor are a wealthy people. They'll have thousands if not millions of light starships - yachts, shuttles, light freighters, etc. Unless the Empire is prepared for a total naval blockade over an extended period involving a fleet larger than massed for Endor, people will get off world. Heck, we see Cassian fly a U-Wing without a transponder into the heart of Coruscant (another detail I hated) and later actually jump to hyperspace from not just within the mass shadow of Jedha but within the mass shadow of a chaotic explosion, both of which suggest blockades are basically impossible in universe. For that matter, this is a universe where people have been space faring for around 80,000 years. They know how to survive without a biosphere. They do it all the time.

Although, to be honest, given the size of the death star relative to the size of a planet, I'm not sure that long term instability is something I understand as physically possible. Let's say 1 million cubic kilometers have to be removed, and you need to dig out several times that amount to get at it. Seems like a lot until you realize an earth like planet like Ghorman has 260 billion cubic kilometers of material. Biosphere collapse, sure. Maybe something like the multiple Deccan Traps events releasing massive amounts of toxic chemicals and ash into the atmosphere. But, the Death Star just doesn't have enough mass or size to significantly alter the mass of a planet.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Although, to be honest, given the size of the death star relative to the size of a planet, I'm not sure that long term instability is something I understand as physically possible. Let's say 1 million cubic kilometers have to be removed, and you need to dig out several times that amount to get at it. Seems like a lot until you realize an earth like planet like Ghorman has 260 billion cubic kilometers of material. Biosphere collapse, sure. Maybe something like the multiple Deccan Traps events releasing massive amounts of toxic chemicals and ash into the atmosphere. But, the Death Star just doesn't have enough mass or size to significantly alter the mass of a planet.

That’s talked about at the meeting. The area is geologically unstable. If you want to know what that could do, read up on the possible effects of the Yellowstone supervolcano erupting. Biospheres are incredibly fragile. You don’t have to make significant changes to the mass of a planet to destroy one.

 

[pukunui]

But, the Death Star just doesn't have enough mass or size to significantly alter the mass of a planet.

I’m sure the kalkite mined from Ghorman wasn’t all going to the first Death Star.

 

[Kaodi]

One of my takeaways from having just watched Rogue One again is that Cassian was so traumatized by the Imperial slave labour camp that he felt compelled to lie about having been imprisoned before when they were in Saw's cells.

 

[billd91]

Some fun watching:

 

[billd91]

The Ghor are a wealthy people.

They are - but that doesn't save them and their way of life - and that's the main point here, not that some minority of them may escape the environmental apocalypse about hit them through the kalkite mining. The Empire wants the resource for its own heavy-handed devices, so it doesn't matter how important Ghorman twill is to Imperial fashion and haute couture or how conventional and uncontroversial the people are.
But I would expect blockading Ghorman to be an issue of a much smaller magnitude than patrolling Coruscant. Nine provinces of 800,000-ish people, probably relatively geographically isolated in the valleys where the spider silk production is based. That's a lot easier than trying to control all access to Coruscant.

 

[Zardnaar]

That’s talked about at the meeting. The area is geologically unstable. If you want to know what that could do, read up on the possible effects of the Yellowstone supervolcano erupting. Biospheres are incredibly fragile. You don’t have to make significant changes to the mass of a planet to destroy one.

536AD comes up.

Dino killer asteroid is another.

 

[pukunui]

The Ghor are a wealthy people. They'll have thousands if not millions of light starships - yachts, shuttles, light freighters, etc.

Yes, they're wealthy, but their society is mainly agrarian and artisanal. They're not jet setters like the folks on Coruscant. I get the impression that they mostly expect the galaxy to come to them. This sequence is meant to evoke things like The French Connection. Yeah, maybe budget constraints made the scale too small, but overall, I think they did a good job with what they had.

While Dreena may have been the only Ghor to make it to Yavin 4, I doubt she was the only Ghor to make it offworld. The rest would undoubtedly have to go into hiding just like the Jedi, lest they be hunted down and silenced (either killed or imprisoned) by the ISB. The Empire publicly arrested their senator, so there's no way they would've let ordinary Ghor survivors move about freely, spreading the news of the atrocities.

 

[sevenbastard]

Like most of the Empire's ill-considered crackdowns

I mean the rebellion got pretty lucky. If one star destroyer gunner would have shot that escape pod then we would be looking at a whole diffrent galaxy.