Ok, so I have a problem with Planet-Cracker weapons in Scifi in general and in Star Wars in particular. It is this: a habitable planet is literally one of the most valuable things in the universe. 1/6
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That's not to say that some types of empire wouldn't develop or use these weapons (e.g. a crusader empire, or one dedicated to the destruction of all outgroup life), but even then these would only be used on outgroup worlds, and only ones without exploitable resources. 4/6
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The original Star Wars gets a _little_ bit of a pass because if you happened to build something like that, you should have one of them, and you might use it exactly once, as a demonstration as force. 5/6
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But even that's a stretch - a test against a lightly populated world would do just fine as a threat.6/6
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Ok - so, someone in a really big hurry to conquer all known space might use something like this more than once - but that sort of thing is also usually motivated by an existential threat, and Palpatine? He's been chilling out for decades. Clearly wasn't in a hurry till just now.
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