Well, I think he is and here is my reasoning:
His Storm was noted to have taken over the entire moon of Da Soocha:
“Princess Leia. There’s an energy storm. It’s suddenly taken over the planet! We have twelve ships lost already. All our hands are being lost. We’re being wiped out!
-Mon Mothma, Dark Empire audio drama
And no, this is not contradicted by the comic. We do not see what the Force Storm was doing after it had consumed the fleet, while Luke and Leia were severing Sidious’ connection. We are only given perspective to the events inside the Eclipse, not the battle outside it. In fact, the notion that Force Storms are planetary is shared by none other than Luke Skywalker, and Darth Sidious himself:
"The Reborn Emperor used this at Da Soocha. It has the power to kill worlds."
-Luke Skywalker, The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force
“In time, the channeled anger of the dark side will prove just as destructive as the Death Star.”
-Darth Sidious, Book of Anger
Their words are reliable. Luke witnessed what the Emperor could do with his Force Storms, and he would not make such an assessment if the Storms were not truly threateing to consume the entire moon. Mon Mothma's words above also support this. And I’m pretty sure Sidious himself knows what his technique is capable of.
Originally posted by Deronn_solo
Doubt it.It hasn't exhibited anything near that destructive capacity. Covering the surface of a moon pales in comparison to actually destroying a planet to where it's nothing but a swirl of asteroids and dust.
You do realize that he could just drill to the core of a planet and consume it, or just summon it in core in the first place?
Based upon on what? The power needed to destroy the core planet the size of Earth would take much more than the joules produced by every single nuclear weapon on the planet going off simultaneously.
Sidious has shown nothing close to this with his Force Storms. There is a reason he alluded to the fact that it wasn't quite Death Star level, E.I. planet busting - just yet.
Again, "killing a planet" [or life wiping] swallowing a fleet and covering the surface of a moon is literally nothing comparable to planet busting.
Originally posted by Deronn_solo
Based upon on what? The power needed to destroy the core planet the size of Earth would take much more than the joules produced by every single nuclear weapon on the planet going off simultaneously.
Force Storms consume literally everything. It's not an issue for Sidious to devour a big ball of iron, be it however dense.
Sidious has shown nothing close to this with his Force Storms. There is a reason he alluded to the fact that it wasn't quite Death Star level, E.I. planet busting - just yet.
Yes, during 19 BBY 😂
Force Storms consume literally everything. It's not an issue for Sidious to devour a big ball of iron, be it however dense.
Yeah, nice no limit fallacy there. The core is also bonded together by a universal force called gravity, for instance, the core of the Earth is binder by gravitational pressure sporting around two hundred million trillion trillion joules of energy.
I'm gonna need actual proof a Force Strom can do something every nuclear weapon on the Earth can't, or produce the that type of force. The most it has ever been stated to do is teat the surface off world's and kill planets. If it could bust planets, it would have been stated to do so, instead of the quotes on the matter, very blantly, limiting itself to surface damage only.
If you don't post proof of it actually demonstrating the power sufficient to bust a planet, or a statement close enough to it, I'm not going to bother continuing this discussion.
Yes, during 19 BBY
Yes, and it still didn't demonstrate anything near what the Death Star is capable of, so I don't see.
No one in Star Wars has been shown to have the capability to bust planets, certainly not a la DBZ.
Not Sidious, not Valkorion, not Nihilus.
The Ones should be capable of it in theory. I seem to recall Abeloth creating natural disasters/cataclysms on Coruscant in a rage, though I might be misremembering.
The World Razer is said to be able to devour planets and stars, and iirc, Terror From Beyond has his quote about "destroying the galaxy" if he escapes or some such.
Originally posted by WildBantha88Palpatine never reached a point in his lifetime where he possessed the personal power/ability to destroy an entire world outright. Planetary destruction is within the ability of Force Storms, however, so Palpatine almost certainly could have achieved such destruction with additional time/training.
In the book of the sith Darth Sidious states that someday the Death Star will no longer be needed because he will be capable of creating Force Storms large enough to destroy planets. In Dark Empire we see the largest Force Storm he has ever produced, one large enough to eradicate a large fleet. So, do you think, if directed at a planet, this a force Storm would have destroyed a planet?
A few excerpts from the Jedi and Sith Guides are suggestive of such...