Originally posted by The Ellimist
👆An imperial star destroyer's heavy turbolasers output teratons a shot. An Eclipse super star destroyer is like a hundred times more powerful (it has the reactor output of a medium star).
Palpatine destroying one with a storm is MASSIVELY superior to Vitiate wiping out life on a planet - that's shit a frigate could do.
This closes the discussion, even if we buy this bizarre argument that sourcebook statements should be taken as "speculation" unless if we see it in a comic panel or novel.
This is such a pathetic argument. You are not just comparing apples and oranges but also presenting logical fallacies.
Force Storm is a wormhole with blackhole-like properties (wormholes are often dubbed as quantum-entangled blackholes). Should there be no tail at its end, a Force Storm will behave like a blackhole and consume matter in its path for as long as it lasts.
Now, durability of matter/object/machine is meaningless vis-a-vis a blackhole and similar manifestations (should the matter/object/machine be on the receiving-end of such destructive energies) because a blackhole can consume even atoms. And everything comes down to atoms at its tiniest level. Even a micro-blackhole can consume/actually consumes atoms for as long as it lasts.
Your point is that an ISD is like a 'atomic bomb' in motion whose explosion could theoretically wipe out a city. This is all meaningless when an ISD comes into contact with a blackhole or similar manifestation, it will be literally consumed to the last atom. The sheer toughness/power output/destructive power of an ISD will be utterly useless against such manifestations.
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It took combined might of just dozen (or so) Force-users to push an entire fleet of ISDs [17 in total] outside a Star System. They are not that hard to affect. Force-users are largely hindered by mindset.
Now, do you think that those Force-users could move a planet like that? No, they could not. Not even close. Because a planet is enormous in mass, infinitely larger then any Starship.
Similarly, it takes combined might of a dozen (or so) Force-users to conjure a Force Storm as well, with little practice. Conjuring this power is not a mammoth task; Palpatine learned to do it single-handedly after years of practice.
In contrast, it took 8000 Sith to conjure an expression of Force Drain that would consume all life in the planet and reduce it to a barren wasteland. Reason is that it was too much area to cover and affect. Again, the purpose of Force Drain is entirely different from that of Force Storm; Force Drain powers are intended to affect and/or consume living beings (not matter). However, raw power involved in a planetary-scale attack can be humongous.