Funnily enough, Hammer Station (Which was the asteroid throwing weapon) was developed by the Republic.
For all the badmouthing towards the Sith, the Republic loves making doomsday weapons.
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probably so they can just move asteroids around peacefully, not throw them at planets
the republic would NEVER
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We just did this with Sylvanas seeking to delete the unfair reality to make a new one where she gets to be alive and nobody Serves except Nathanos serving breakfast in bed. Once logic enters the room everything crumbles.
Psychological warfare, though?
An actual hypothetical for terraforming and providing water to dry regions but you just know weâd use it to dislodge Deimos from the orbit of Mars to throw it at some rogue state.
itâs september and ff7 rebirth is still my current goty
outlaws is not going to dislodge it and i donât think thereâs anything else this year that can. unlike remake where both persona 5 and ghost of tsushima were bullying it
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thatâs just threatening to throw a rock
The rock is already in your head.
Today wouldâve been Leoâs actual 23rd birthday.
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So.
According to wookiepedia, in the old republic era alone, these were the following superweapons that we know off and which side used or developed them(I have only counted sith empire and republic weapons, not ones made by others or later eras):
Galactic Republic:
Planet Prison(Could lockdown entire planets and turn it into a giant ion cannon by frying the atmosphere)
Shock Drum(Could crack and destabilize planet cores to break planets apart)
Death Mark Laser(Orbital laser with pinpoint accuracy for specific targets)
Baradium fission device(Planetary bomb)
Baradium missile(Planet-destroying missiles)
Baradium Bomb(Planetary bomb like the fission device)
Barrager(Fleet destroying defense system)
Electro-proton bomb(Mass-droid destroying weapon)
Mass Shadow Generator(Device that inverts gravity and basically turns planets into black holes by crushing anything inside its gravity)
Unknown Republic Super Weapon(Planet Killer)
Hammer Station(Capable of throwing asteroids at targets)
Cal-class Battleship(Planet killer battleship)
Shadow Arsenal(Continent destroying missilies with built in cloaking devices for stealth attacks)
Null Cannon(Disables all technology on impact in a wide radius)
Power Guard Enhancement System (Capable of transforming people into elite cyborgs that could be controlled and used as super-soldiers).
Sith Empire:
Corsair(Battleship that could tear out cores from stars and make them explode)
Sun Razer(A superweapon designed to make more superweapons)
Ascendant Spear(A battlecruiser that could connect to force-users and be guided mentally and also channel force powers of its driver)
Dark Reaper(Drained the life and Force of anything nearby to channel into death lasers)
Desolator(Ship-mounted planet-destroying laser)
Gauntlet(Cannon that could destroy targets in hyperspace)
Silencer(Fleet-killing laser)
Undying(Capital ship superweapon)
Darkstaff (Planet killer weapon)
The republic went a bit overboard with theirs I feel.
Edit: Forgot to include Power Guard Enhancement System for Republic.
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with all of this planet destroying tech it makes you wonder how the death star even became a thing. it seems a lot more unwieldy and difficult to use
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Especially with how that technology is supposed to be thousands of years in the future compared to the ones Iâve listed.
i feel like the death star was meant more as a symbol of oppression than it was as a planet killer. a very real threat. that and the fact it ran on kyber crystals as one final flip-off to the jedi
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i like the bit of star wars where the robots do the little beep boop beep and the ships go vrooooooooo and the lightsabers go vrmmmmmmm swiiiiiissssh
and the music goes DUN DUUUUUUN DUUUUUUUUN DUN DUN DUUNN DUUUUUUUUUUUUN
really good stuff
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I still think firing planets at other planets is exactly the kind of over the top, ludicrous thing thatâs the natural conclusion to a long planet killing arms race. Maybe 40k will do it.
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keep the people on the planet when you throw it because that way it does more damage
The giant space station is a more visable reminder of destruction than say, the Expanseâs attack on earth via rockets strapped to Asteroids.
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Even looking at the list I made between the Sith Empire and Galactic Republic, the Empire clearly favors oppression. Most of their weapons are something you can mount to ships and used and named to be scary.
Meanwhile the Republic is all about doing as many war crimes as possible for maximum collateral damage.
I mean, 40k has Tachyon Arrows which are wrist-mounted dart launchers capable of piercing any substance at almost infinite range
I never found the Death Star particularly intimidating until I saw Rogue One.
precisely. people forget olâ palps was a politician as much as he was a sith-lord. he knew how to work the fear system like anyone in downing street wouldâŚ
OR era
jedi are aiding in war crimes
clone wars era
anakin is aiding in war crimes
same as it ever was
blowing up a planet is one thing, having the precision control to nuke a tectonic plate instead of the whole world is another level of fear entirely
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Itâs to stop the Sith Empire from nearly destroying the galaxy again. You see Vixi, without several planet-destroying weapons the Republic would be weaker compared to the Sith, and that would make the sith more likely to attack the Republic but now they wonât because of The Implication.
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