So as it's noted, nuclear weapons are considered obsolete and even random fleets can tank multiples without getting any damage.
My question though is, does anyone know how powerful nukes are in the SWU?
Are they as powerful as what RL Earth has? Or moreso?
I can't find an answer through my sources, so curious if anyone has a source which I haven't read that explains it, or if there's no source stating such.
Nuke in a real-world sense, with radiation and fall-out and shit. I'm sure nuclear fission gets used in all kinds of SW tech.
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According to Wookie the nukes most commonly used by the Mandos in the KOTOR comics had a blast radius of 30km and a fall-out radius of 100km.
That's the only hard figure I could come up with. Ares is right that the power of nuclear weapons varies considerably. Combine that with Star Wars generally being very inexact when it comes to hard science and you have a recipe for SW nukes probably being just strong enough for what the narrative requires.
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Yeah saw that, was just hoping there'd be something more expanding on it. Guess not, ahh well. It's not too big a deal, was just curious if there was any other info I was missing.
Jun 10th, 2015 05:03 AM
