What the, uh... Phrik?!

So I was browsing through the Wookieepedia, and upon the Renegade Squadron page, I came across this little paragraph...

Mission 2: Space Alderaan

Before the destruction of Alderaan, Senator Bail Organa possessed an artifact with data on a holocron that was needed to locate a new base. The holocron was encased in phrik, a material so powerful that it survived the destruction of the planet. Renegade Squadron must recover it and defeat Boba Fett in his Slave I.

So... if Bail Organa had seen the approach of the Death Star, he could've hopped into a coffin made out of Phrik and possibly survive the destruction of his planet? After the destruction of Alderaan became a known throughout the galaxy, would paranoid people start constructing Phrik basements filled with canned food in case of the apocalypse? And I'm not even going to mention that Kyle Katarn was beating Dark Troopers whom were encased with armor that survived the DS blast...

(because there's nothing surprising about that, anyways)


Am I reading this completely wrong? Just curious...

 

Well, I suppose you could argue that it was tough enough that it was capable of being launched out with the rest of the rubble when it went boom . . . I don't know that it would survive being anywhere near the actual superlaser strike, but, yeah, this seems kind of silly. Which seems to be a recurring theme with Star Wars video games lately.

 

To play Sith's advocate (and I do firmly believe that Renegade Squadron is of the Dark Side), the WEG adventure about Alderaan has a hidden facility survive the planet's destruction.
But since when did "phrik" become adamantium?

 

I believe that WEG adventure ended up being a hoax or something.

 

However, a WotC adventure hook from Coruscant and the Core Worlds contains something similar, with a centuries-old installation that was buried 200km below Alderaan's surface. It held samples of genetic material from all of Alderaan's plant and animal species.

 

The hoax was that Bail Organa might have survived - part of the Imperial Palace did, but it's just a big Imperial trap. However, in the adventure you escape on the Another Chance, marking its first appearance.

 

I don't like this. It could be the beginning of a trend. Now instead of innumerable Death Star plans, we'll have the innumerable things that survived the destruction of Alderaan.

 

Well, at least this one is vaguely plausible.

 

Doesn't Camper gave Zayne a unique pair of phrik vambraces?

 

Phrikite alloy. There may be a distinction there.

 

The old joke Douglas Adams used to hate comes to mind, about how airplans have "indestructable" black boxes...so why, the joke goes, don't they build the airplanes out of the same thing? Just because a material happens to work for a small object in a certain situation, doesn't mean it would work to protect everything.

Of course, that doesn't mean that the ol' Renegade Squadron commander couldn't have been putting one over on Tionne...

TC

 

Phrikite is just the name of the unrefined version of phrik - it requires mixing with "tydirium" to form phrik. Camper, being the super-genius he was, invented the "phrik" alloy before anyone else.

 

Ah.

 

Not only practical, but an interesting addition to continuity! Hooray shuttle names!

 

Wasn't Palpatine's lightsaber hilt made from Phrik?

 

Wow Camper sure is amazing.

 

Gasp! All Renegade Squadron continuity errors solved! Col Serra is just a lying bastard.

 

How convenient. They must have stored it there in case, you know, the planet exploded or something.

 

I think it's supposed to be the Aldera Royal Palace.

 

I'm Phrik James *****!

 

Weren't the Dancing assassin droids in Droid Works made of Phrik, or is that game not canon?

 

It's canon--it even got a mention in the recent New Essential Guide to Droids. Dunno about the phrik, though.

TC

 

This is almost like how in the pre-Crisis Superman comics, all kinds of objects survived Krypton's destruction.

Just wanted to point that out.

 

There's phrik in the game, as a part of a puzzle or two. It was mined right there on Tatooine, IIRC. But I forget if it was explicitly stated to be what the assassin droids were made of or not.