Can Darth Nihilus drain a planet without orbital bombardment?

Apparently, it's becoming a commonly held belief that Nihilus can't drain a planet on the fly like once thought, but instead needs to attack it with an orbital onslaught first, via a quote in the Complete Star Wars encyclopedia. But others, view the quote in a completely different manner, and suggest it's not mutually exclusive.

So which camp are you in?

Quote from SW encyclopedia?

In the meantime, Darth Nihilus led his Sith forces from his flagship, the Ravager, drawing more and more power from worlds that he blasted into ruin.
--TCSWE

Credit to Ant.

It seems cut and dry to me.

Originally posted by Zenwolf
It seems cut and dry to me.

Edit: Retracted.

There is not a single source that states or depicts as such, and instead anyone not in urgent need of glasses can tell from Unseen, Unheard that orbital bombardment is not involved.

Actually re-tract last comment. Makes sense, I got it figured out.

Logically, it doesn't make a bit of sense. Blasting the planet with orbital bombardment would kill a significant amount of the populace, given the destructive power a turbolaser sports alone.

Because he didn't. They pretty much used the word ruin twice just in different wording in the quote.

He never used the Ravager. Other sources say ancient Sith like Nihilus can destroy worlds with a thought, which backs up him life wiping planets like Katarr in unseen unheard.

A poor misinterpretation of one statement is not going to change what we see in Unseen, Unheard.

So...the idea is that Nihilus can casually and/or effortlessly drain an entire planet? With no prep or anything?

Yep. 🙂

He does need prep of some sort, as the Battle of Telos IV shows.

Originally posted by Beniboybling
There is not a single source that states or depicts as such, and instead anyone not in urgent need of glasses can tell from Unseen, Unheard that orbital bombardment is not involved.

Originally posted by SunRazer
He does need prep of some sort, as the Battle of Telos IV shows.

Prep doesn't necessarily mean arial bombardment, lmao.

Originally posted by Beniboybling
There is not a single source that states or depicts as such, and instead anyone not in urgent need of glasses can tell from Unseen, Unheard that orbital bombardment is not involved.

Unseen, Unheard has him first bombing Katarr, though. Well either that, or he TKs the surface of the planet, but that'd be ridiculous because that'd make Nihilus > every other SW character bar the Ones.

wow, u r dumb.

Originally posted by Beniboybling
wow, u r dumb.

Great AP imitation. Now can we go back to common sense, tbh?

Also Hangouts, immediately, tbh. 🙂