Summary
- There were initial fan concerns about the fate of the Ewoks on the forest moon of Endor after the second Death Star was destroyed, as they believed the impact would have decimated the moon. However, these concerns have been debunked by Star Wars through various additions to the canon.
- Canon sources, such as a new short story in Star Wars Insider and the Shattered Empire miniseries, confirm that Endor and its Ewoks survived after the Death Star's destruction. The explosion was not powerful enough to cause significant damage to the moon.
- The Rise of Skywalker revealed that larger chunks of the Death Star, including the superlaser dish and the Emperor's throne room, impacted the nearby ocean moon Kef Bir. This saved Endor from destruction. It is a canonical fact that the explosion caused abnormal physics that couldn't be explained, and the larger pieces were launched into hyperspace and caught by Kef Bir's gravity.
One of the darkest Return of the Jedi theories has been debunked by the Star Wars franchise. As seen in the 1983 film, the Empire's second Death Star was destroyed by the Rebel Alliance, marking the beginning of the end for the Imperial regime in the galaxy far, far away. However, the film's aftermath generated some justifiable fan concerns regarding the forest moon of Endor.
In Return of the Jedi, the Empire installed a powerful shield generator to protect the second Death Star, located on the forest moon of Endor below. This forced the Rebellion to fight the Battle of Endor on multiple fronts, both on the surface of the forest moon to disable the shield and in orbit to blow up the exposed battle station from the inside. While the Rebellion was victorious and the second Death Star exploded, a dark theory was formed regarding the ultimate fate of Endor and its Ewok tribes who helped the Rebels win the day, one Star Wars has since debunked in various ways.
