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Hey, another Planet Killers article!

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Found here.

Excellent piece, analyzes many common methods carefully with a humorous tone. He's a good sport, too, not rejecting some of the fictional ideas arrogantly. He provides this nice little nugget:
Darth Vader in this movie describes the Death Star's capabilities as insignificant compared to the power of the Dark Side of the Force. Combined with Yoda's statements about size being irrelevant in the sequel movie The Empire Strikes Back, this would seem to imply that a powerful Sith or Jedi could destroy a planet ON HIS OWN. We never see a hint of this somewhat terrifying possibility becoming a reality anywhere in the movies though.
Now that’s an amusing interpretation.
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And accurate as well.

in the comics, I believe it was Naga Shadow that used the Dark Side to cause Supernovas, and Emperor Palpatine could create Force Storms and probably could shatter worlds given time.
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Solauren wrote:And accurate as well.

in the comics, I believe it was Naga Shadow that used the Dark Side to cause Supernovas, and Emperor Palpatine could create Force Storms and probably could shatter worlds given time.
Sadow (that's the proper spelling, afaik) had to use Sith devices to magnify their Force powers however. So it's not like they could -quite- do it on their own.
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And it links to Mike's PK page!
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I've read this page before, I remember Exar Kun caused supernovas though.
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My only quibble is that it fails to mention this sweetheart:

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From 40K.
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Kuja wrote:My only quibble is that it fails to mention this sweetheart:

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From 40K.
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OmegaGuy wrote:I've read this page before, I remember Exar Kun caused supernovas though.
Exar Kun had Naga Sadow's weapon. What's really scary is that one of his apprentices was able to use the weapon to nova a star. The next part of the story is so dumb it hurts the reader's brain, but that's a seperate issue.
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Marka Ragnos was more powerful than either of them, right?
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Imperial Overlord wrote:
OmegaGuy wrote:I've read this page before, I remember Exar Kun caused supernovas though.
Exar Kun had Naga Sadow's weapon. What's really scary is that one of his apprentices was able to use the weapon to nova a star. The next part of the story is so dumb it hurts the reader's brain, but that's a seperate issue.
Nova or supernova? There is a difference, nova basically a huge solar flare. Supernova is the whole star explodes.
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Adrian Laguna wrote:
Imperial Overlord wrote:
OmegaGuy wrote:I've read this page before, I remember Exar Kun caused supernovas though.
Exar Kun had Naga Sadow's weapon. What's really scary is that one of his apprentices was able to use the weapon to nova a star. The next part of the story is so dumb it hurts the reader's brain, but that's a seperate issue.
Nova or supernova? There is a difference, nova basically a huge solar flare. Supernova is the whole star explodes.
Sorry, I was sloppy. It was a supernova.
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Imperial Overlord wrote:
Adrian Laguna wrote:
Imperial Overlord wrote: Exar Kun had Naga Sadow's weapon. What's really scary is that one of his apprentices was able to use the weapon to nova a star. The next part of the story is so dumb it hurts the reader's brain, but that's a seperate issue.
Nova or supernova? There is a difference, nova basically a huge solar flare. Supernova is the whole star explodes.
Sorry, I was sloppy. It was a supernova.
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Well, not quite. He just eats their inhabitants. The planets themselves are completely intact.
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