It is said that the Wookiee Chewbacca lives on the forest moon of Endor instead of his home planet of Kashyyk. It has long puzzled scholars why this would be the case (long answer short: he doesn't. It's because he doesn't. Fictional Johnnie Cochran is full of crap. I am so glad I did research before putting this post online.)
It has also been thought that the detonation of a fully operational superweapon directly above an unshielded moon would have rained down literal veritable hell upon the inhabitants-- and yet there is no trace or mention of this in Return of the Jedi (long answer short here: when hyperdrive regulators, such as those in Death Stars, collapse, they open up wormholes. Seriously.)
My "beautiful theory... murdered by a brutal gang of facts" aside, sure, let's have fun with misconceptions. Let's say that Chewbacca DOES mysteriously live on Endor, which DID mysteriously survive having a 160-kilometer-wide superweapon explode in sector 47-ish, close enough for the explosion to be visibly seen in broad daylight. I don't think the two are entirely unrelated.
This long-postulated "Endor Holocaust" may in fact explain the Wookiee's odd choice of abode. What if there were a device of some kind, probably just "plot" device, so that Kashyyk was actually the one to get all the Deathy Starry chunks falling upon it? Like, wormholes caused by imploding hyperdrive regulators, or something. Or lots and lots of handwavium. Maybe just Plot. The fire and brimstone rains down above Kashyyk instead, and...
Weh, that all sounded good when it first came to me. What do you think?
(With apologies to François de La Rochefoucauld.)
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