: One might argue that the big moon/planet in the sky is apparently larger than
: any of L'howon's moons as viewed from the surface, so it must be L'howon
: as seen from Y'loa. (Of course, that requires another Jjaro miracle in the
: form of several planet-sized objects whirling around each other at arms'
: length without their orbits destabilizing after millions of years...) And
: since Boomer was grounded for the duration of several levels, the Pfhor
: would have time to start systematically dismantling it from the outside
: in. Though we're not told of any time when the Marine had the luxury of
: actually running away from the wreck to get a nice view of it at a
: distance. :-)
: I still think this was probably intended to show Durandal's death. We've
: seen elsewhere that Craig wasn't given a whole lot of detailed, finalized
: story info to construct his pictures from; hence discrepancies in, for
: instance, S'pht blood color and the form(s) of the ancient S'pht. Here, I
: suspect, someone just told him, "Durandal's ship is going to crash
: and he's going to be "dead" for a while." So Craig did a
: shot of the Marine watching over his grave.
Aye agreed. It would also explain why the ship looks a total wreck rather just lying damaged on the planet surface.
Cheers
Hamish
