On back button, natively kill the app (no pass-thru the kilobolt's framework).
Factor the loading of the "scroll text" (although it was commented out) out of the LoneMercury, as it does not belong there, maybe in the Assets.
Adds the planet to a no-dpi resource qualifier as for http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
Whitespacing.
Adds text to distinguish both errors. Adds a stacktrace to understand if the IOException is File Not Found or what.
Assets loads the planet. The png is moved from /res into /assets as per this page: http://developer.android.com/tools/projects/index.html