What's the point of building a death star when you can just do a hyper-relativistic space 9/11?
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war in the star wars universe would be entirely different if relativistic kinetic weapons were used. It was just jarring to have them show up this late in the game
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ok, so let's focus some more on why the Death Star is the Death Star. Beyond just being an ostentatious display of industrial capacity it's also _not really_ an anti-planet weapon. It can do that but it's obviously inefficient compared to the alternatives.
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the super laser is really an anti-ship weapon, as seen in RotJ with DS2. the fact that they could overtune it if desired to be used as a terror weapon is kinda secondary to its design. Tarkin doctrine was considered controversial and probably a mistake, right?
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there seems to have been a very long-standing norm of limited warfare throughout the galaxy. a shift in that norm IS jarring, and perhaps that's exactly the point.
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