Most Devastating Super Weapons

I think Kyp or Han had the feeling that even the Sun Crusher's hull couldn't withstand a direct hit from the Death Star's laser.

where was that stated?

It should be noted that the Eclipse-class Star Dreadnoughts were equipped with a synthesis of armor plating and shielding that allowed them to ram enemy vessels as well.

Originally posted by truejedi
where was that stated?

Doesn't Qui Xux, builder of the Suncrusher, say they have nothing to worry about though? I would take her word over Han's bad feelings.

Maybe I am remembering incorrectly though.

I haven't quite figured out why SW has no R-bombs.

r-bombs?

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
r-bombs?

Relativistic bomb.

If you move something past 14% C, weird shit starts happening and you get an incredibly destructive amount of kinetic energy.

Say you toss a kilogram slug at 99.99% C, that's going to come out to roughly 1.5 gigatons. It would be easy to accomplish with SW tech. Imagine a rapid fire cannon shooting one of those slugs. Imagine hundreds of them.

You would want it to flatten on impact of course, otherwise it would just punch right through and keep moving.

But think of how cheap such a weapon would be to supply?

oh yeah, i know. realistically speaking projectile weapons powered by the energy outputs in SW tech would be devastating.

It should be noted I've never taken a physics class in my life. I think I've spent far to much time checking out physics books from the library and reading online articles.

The closest was AP Chemistry (which I failed.)

I always just figured it was their shielding technology that made slugs useless. Their wacky tech probably disintegrates any matter throw at it regardless of our understanding of physics.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
I always just figured it was their shielding technology that made slugs useless. Their wacky tech probably disintegrates any matter throw at it regardless of our understanding of physics.

But turbolasers are really just some weird particle weapon. Why don't they disintegrate them?

Originally posted by Autokrat
But turbolasers are really just some weird particle weapon. Why don't they disintegrate them?

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
You mean their lasers are actually made of matter?

Some weird hybrid of photons and matter. The weapon doesn't make sense as we know physics (impossible things are done to the photons.)

I turned this into a list btw - http://furiousfanboys.com/2010/06/the-7-most-devastating-superweapons-in-star-wars/

Tried to add everyone's input

I'll preface this with saying I don't have intricate knowledge of every weapon listed. But I haven't seen a power listed that Centerpoint can't trump. At full potential, it should be able to ravage entire solar systems in single gravitic strikes. I suppose the Sun Crusher is similar, but would take longer to operate on a galaxy-wide scale.

Originally posted by Autokrat
Relativistic bomb.

If you move something past 14% C, weird shit starts happening and you get an incredibly destructive amount of kinetic energy.

Say you toss a kilogram slug at 99.99% C, that's going to come out to roughly 1.5 gigatons. It would be easy to accomplish with SW tech. Imagine a rapid fire cannon shooting one of those slugs. Imagine hundreds of them.

You would want it to flatten on impact of course, otherwise it would just punch right through and keep moving.

But think of how cheap such a weapon would be to supply?

But yeah it definently makes more sense then lasers or whatever the hell Star wars uses.

Honestly I would say for effectiveness for a war the Star Forge because with just that you can build everything else on the world ending or star ending list as well as entire fleets provided you have the know-how to build them. As with the death stars individual superweapons don't do shit unless supported with enough craft to cover their vulnerabilities though with the Deathstar 1 you would think with the capability to destroy a planet that it would have a shield over the exhaust port strong enough to block photon torpedoes -_-.

Originally posted by Uriel005
Honestly I would say for effectiveness for a war the Star Forge because with just that you can build everything else on the world ending or star ending list as well as entire fleets provided you have the know-how to build them. As with the death stars individual superweapons don't do shit unless supported with enough craft to cover their vulnerabilities though with the Deathstar 1 you would think with the capability to destroy a planet that it would have a shield over the exhaust port strong enough to block photon torpedoes -_-.

Still doesn't mean that the statement is incorrect.