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Context:
Everything shakes and rumbles. Kashyyyk is caught in the throes of tectonic spasms - above their heads, the packed-dirt ceiling gives way one stream of soil at a time. Clumps of moss fall and the massive twisting roots around them writhe just so, like serpents stirred from a restive sleep.
Additional information:
Grand Moff Lozen Tolruck loses it and orders Kashyyyk to be subjected to a Base Delta Zero (an orbital bombardment campaign whose goal is to life-wipe a planet and reduce the surface to a "burning cinder"). Three Imperial-class star destroyers - Dominion, Neutralizer, Vitiator - begin hammering Kashyyyk. Their bombardment causes the entire planet to quake and go into "tectonic spasms" as described above.
The packed ceiling in question is of a Wookiee shelter. Don't let the fact that these are built out of a tree's root system fool you. These shelters are quite tough.
The tree in question is a Wroshyr tree. A mature one can have a trunk with a circumference of dozens of kilometres and can stretch into the upper reaches of Kashyyyk's atmosphere:
The Wookiees built many of their cities in and around the massive, skytower-like wroshyr trees - trees whose trunks are of an unimaginable circumference, big enough that to walk around the base of one could take you half a day. The trees turn and twist around one another, as if frozen in a mad dance - this, a competition for the boughs of each wroshyr to crest the upper atmosphere ahead of the one next to it.
To make the roots of a large mountain-sized tree writhe must require a decently powerful earthquake.
And seeing as how the planet was stated to be in "tectonic spasms", the quakes must have been of a decently high Magnitude.
The planet Kashyyyk has a diameter of 12,765 km. That's roughly the same as Earth. So quaking this planet should require roughly the same levels of energy.
Everything shakes and rumbles. Kashyyyk is caught in the throes of tectonic spasms - above their heads, the packed-dirt ceiling gives way one stream of soil at a time. Clumps of moss fall and the massive twisting roots around them writhe just so, like serpents stirred from a restive sleep.
Additional information:
Grand Moff Lozen Tolruck loses it and orders Kashyyyk to be subjected to a Base Delta Zero (an orbital bombardment campaign whose goal is to life-wipe a planet and reduce the surface to a "burning cinder"). Three Imperial-class star destroyers - Dominion, Neutralizer, Vitiator - begin hammering Kashyyyk. Their bombardment causes the entire planet to quake and go into "tectonic spasms" as described above.
The packed ceiling in question is of a Wookiee shelter. Don't let the fact that these are built out of a tree's root system fool you. These shelters are quite tough.
The tree in question is a Wroshyr tree. A mature one can have a trunk with a circumference of dozens of kilometres and can stretch into the upper reaches of Kashyyyk's atmosphere:
The Wookiees built many of their cities in and around the massive, skytower-like wroshyr trees - trees whose trunks are of an unimaginable circumference, big enough that to walk around the base of one could take you half a day. The trees turn and twist around one another, as if frozen in a mad dance - this, a competition for the boughs of each wroshyr to crest the upper atmosphere ahead of the one next to it.
To make the roots of a large mountain-sized tree writhe must require a decently powerful earthquake.
And seeing as how the planet was stated to be in "tectonic spasms", the quakes must have been of a decently high Magnitude.
The planet Kashyyyk has a diameter of 12,765 km. That's roughly the same as Earth. So quaking this planet should require roughly the same levels of energy.
