I’d like to see George Lucas and co explain this one.
The destruction of the second Death Star at the end of Return of the Jedi precipitates a nuclear-winter-like disaster on the forest moon of Endor, when debris from the destroyed Imperial station strike the moon’s surface.
The circumstances at the end of Return of the Jedi lead inevitably to an environmental disaster on the Endor moon. The explosion of a small artificial moon in low orbit sends a meteoric rain onto the ewok sanctuary, on a scale unmatched since Endor formed. Through either direct atmospheric injection of small particles, or showers of ejecta from large impacts, the atmosphere will be filled with smoke and fallout causing a gargantuan nuclear-winter effect.
Er, a plot hole perhaps?
