Why These Superweapons Absolutely EMBARRASS the Death Star
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I'm a little surprised that Centerpoint Station wasn't mentioned. The sheer potential for destruction it poses is enough for, at least, an honorable mention. Capable of pulling planets into orbit and creating the Corellian System? If that doesn't cause some worry then I'm not sure what else could.
Thank you, some one else remembered that station. It could also pull the core out of a star making it go supernova on the same level as the sun crusher.
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I guess it’s just not as sexy as the sun crusher though.
I also thought Centerpoint was used by the Celestials to create the Maw where Aberloth was held...?
@@TopsY8KretS in conjunction with another station who’s name escapes me, but yes.
Well at least someone else remembered center point station
If here on Earth we still dread the aftermath of the Cold War, with the threat of Nuclear weapons, I can’t imagine the levels of dread the Star Wars Galaxy has to go through, of the threat of Planet Destroying Super Weapons. 😨
And many of them have no idea the devastation that can be wrought be an immensely powerful force wielder
@@knightingale9833I still argue that those who can touch the Force on the level of Anakin Skywalker or Galen Marek/Starkiller are the deadliest suoerweapons of all
@@tadhggoreyoneill13666'd say that's a fair assessment since that "super weapon" could be walking among the public with little notice and even less would suspect how powerful they truly are.
Arguably, someone with the mind of Thrawn could be considered just as much of a super weapon. Fortunately for the galaxy, no one in power truly realized the full potential he had.
Technically nuclear weapons are planet destroyers. After the Cold War it went from two countries with the capability to about a dozen countries now. So, on paper, nuclear war is about ten times more likely than during the Cold War, especially with Ukraine, the Pakistan/India conflicts and the Israeli/Arab aggressions, especially after the Israeli drone assassinations.
@@naebhor6931that is a stretch. Nuclear war wouldn't destroy the planet, just 99% of life on it. The planet would continue to exist and would eventually be able to support life again after it heals. So not a planet destroyer in any sense of the word, just a destroyer of life the two are not the same
I still remember how ridiculously story breaking the Sun Crusher was.
They had to black hole it in the maw
Wasn't the Sun Crusher plunged into a star for some amount of time and then later had to be sent into a black hole in order to destroy it? I can't remember if they gave an actual number to the amount of time it had spent in the star though.
@@hydrasfang it was and I believe it was for quite a while
Personally, I've been a big fan of the Sun Crusher since the late 90s, even if it is ludicrously silly. I'm also partial to the Galaxy Gun, even if it had its issues. A fairly impressive battle station able to launch torpedoes that could basically do what the Death Star did, but without having to go there. Its torpedoes were small, and stealthy, and could fly into a system at max speed, hitting the target world before anyone even knew it was there. If you could find it, the majority of the Imperial Fleet, plus planetary defenses from behind it, made it very well protected. You might even be able to launch a couple missiles, allowing each to travel to its own destination, so you might be able to engage more than one target, and again from safety.
When I was a little kid, someone gave me a set of Star Wars ship toys for my birthday. The sun crusher was in the pack and that started my lifelong amazement with Star Wars. I was like six or so and there was this little pack of ships that said they’re from Star Wars but I had never seen them in the original trilogy, so I was so confused.
I like the idea of the Shawken Device. A weapon you can't confirm even works because the universe gets destroyed and reset every time it's fired.
My most beloved Superweapon is the Desolator- Superweapon...A Combination of:
- The "Planet Prison" -> Ionized the Planets Atmosspere so no one can Escape
- The "Death Mark Laser" ignited the planet's ionized atmopshere and turn the very air of the target into a firestorm
- The "Shok Drum" ...the Laser also penetrate the planet's crust and then destabilize the target world's core with a sustained series of intense seismic vibrations. This is letting large chunks of the world breaking off and smaller debris creating an asteroid field surrounding what was left of the planet
This Superweapon is fitting on a Star-Destroyer sized Ship.
personally i preferred the Star Forge which shockingly did not make the list despite its power which was greater then that of the death star with its superior shield which destroyed the ships that approached it like with the ebon hawk, its ability to produce any ship through the force near instantly, its ability to produce war droids as well. and its less known feature of being able to destroy a star through its power(i believe this was only covered in legends)
The Star Forge is IMO one of the few superweapons that actually make sense from strategic point of view. It is an actual logistical juggernaut capable of producing and supplying virtually endless swarms of battlefleets. It may be not as flashy as a glorified big gun, but it is much more useful
If someone were inclined to do so, I'm pretty sure that they could have the star forge build a death star, but much quicker. Just build it modular like they already did for large sections, but build it all in modules and build ten of them and just keep draining useless systems stars to do so. 5 teams of 2 DS's and unlimited SSD's, and proper fighter's.
No mention of centerpoint station. Centerpoint station could rip the core out of a star, and even pull entire planets into hyperspace.
These Planet destroying Super-weapons make the Death Star look like a science project.
The World Devastators or Galaxy Gun were terrifying concepts. The former destroyed and fueled the Empirial war machine while the latter could destroy anything yet stay in a well defended location.
The Star Forge is still my favorite. Destroying planets and star systems is easy compared to totally controlling it with endless armies & fleets. It is arguably even more defensible than the Death Star as the forge can be hidden while its products hide their tracks. The way that Darth Revan operated and hid the Forge made his Sith truly unstoppable until the events of KoTOR 1. And there's that disruption field that outright shuts down attackers rather than fight them. It's a device that simply operates on a different level of war.
The Star razer is nice too, but again, control is better than destroy.
i like that for alot of superweapons that can reset universes merely get turned off.. not destroyed.. being left for someone else to stumble upon and probably fire up..
The Death Star is more than just a weapon platform though. It was a massive space station that could carry over a million people and was equipped with a hyperdrive.
I'd say for something the size of a moon a million is not nearly enough
@@Cookiekopter “small moon” but yes I agree it should be able to hold more. Idk if it wasn’t fully staffed because they were still doing trial runs or any details like that
At 3:30: This is a screenshot of the Nicoll-Dyson Beam in the Stellaris mod,Gigastructural Engineering & More. It takes all of the solar energy output of a Class A or Class B star,and turns it into a beam of cosmic death... Pointed straight through a wormhole generator,with the other side being over a target planet or star. It can wipe out planetary infrastructure,melt a planet into a primordial volcanic Hellscape,completely shatter a planet,or force the target star to go nova,reducing it to a neutron star with all of that excess energy input,shattering every planet in the system and severing all of its hyperlanes in the doing.
I'd admittingly would imagine the Mass Shadow Generator would tear the death star to Pieces in an instant
I personaliy think you underestimated the Star Forge because if you downloaded the plans for the other superweapons into it the Star Forge could create them itself,
And here is a superweapon you might of forgot of Palpatine's Eclipse Dreadthouth, it could leave planets ruined and there is no way of stopping it's laser, it was a super more mobile version of the Death Star
And then there is Center Point Station, a machine made by the Mortis gods to trap Abeloth the mother, by surrounding the planet she was on in a sphere of BLACK HOLES! ya I don't think I need to explain that one anymore
If I remember the Nihil destroyed a ship and had it scatter and drop out of various places on a hyperspace lane causing a lot of damage. I though it was a really cool chapter and cool situations. I can only imagine say a Crazy Thrawn putting cloaking devices on fragments and setting them loose on a hyperspace route could do.
Another great video. Keep them coming.
Mass shadow generator was pretty insane. Damn thing wounded the force itself
and lead to a chance of Kraia killing the force itself or so she believes
I’d love for the Star Forge to be made canon one day. And it might explain how the Final Order managed to create a huge fleet of Star Destroyers on Exegol in secret.
that would be the only explanation that I could believe in
I’m surprised that center point station wasn’t mentioned
You forgot The Hand of Thrawn. It might not be able to destroy planets but it could turn the tide of battle to any side that controlled the place.
Idea: if a starship can slice a fleet in half when it goes into hyperspace… then what if you strap a few hyperspace engines on massive asteroids, and launch them at a planet?
Awesome video!!
the Orbital Nightcloak definitely outranks everything except the sun crusher and the Shawken Device
You forgot the world devastors, the vong dovin basal weapon that pulled moons down on the planets, the galaxy gun, the force harvester, the corellia system planetary repulsors and centerpoint station.
3:27 That's not the Cosmic Turbine. That's a Nicoll-Dyson Beam from the Gigastructures mod for Stellaris.
What about the good ol' Relativistic Kill Missile? Just a chunk of matter going at a high fraction of the speed of light, turning its mass energy directly into kinetic energy upon impact. Rods from the Gods are another good one, along similar lines.
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The Galaxy Gun and the World Devastators were far more effective superweapons...
Even more effective than both Death Stars and the Sun Crusher...
"This scientist believed the universe needed to be rebooted and given another chance at life".
Does he work for Disney?
Remember the GENESIS DEVICE? A Star Trek shuttle craft could wipe out a planet.
Other than the Death Star, the Star Forge is another super weapon that's a favorite of mine.
Agreed, the ability to generate fleets of droids, ships and weapons endlessly is such a perfect superweapon.
yoooo, I love how he used a stellaris mod for this, a nicoll-dyson beam is very star wars like
Theorical weapons are just that unproven theory. Only two weapons really put the Death Star to shame. 1. The Star Crusher
2. Star Killer Base
Honestly, I disagree. The king of them all is the Blackwing Virus
I'm partial to the World Devastator. A self-replicating fleet of ships tearing worlds asunder.
I'll never forget the destruction from a single low yield shot from the death star on jeddha
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Good picks. Knew about most already. Was hoping an honorary spot for World Devastators (said to be far more lethal than Death Star) for their ability to just rip resources off the planet surface, and everything on it, with their powerful tractor-beams and use them to churn out war material en masse for the Dark Empire. And the buggers even fix and upgrade themselves. The only way they where destroyed was via built-in kill-switch/h´shut-down code.
And then there was the Galaxy Gun, shooting hyperspace travelling ammo that can destroy a city, landmass or entire planet anywhere, from where ever it is parked in.
3:28 I mean it probably didn't look like the Nicoll-Dyson beam from the Stellaris Gigastructural Engineering mod i'd imagine.
probably would have looked cool tho, if there are no pictures of it then alas
Imagine if the Sun Razer had the ability to produce every single super weapon on this list many times over. The universe would truly destroy itself.
I think the Death Star would be more useful to Palpatine than the Sun Crusher. The Death Star is easier to single out rebellious planets without risking the accidental destruction of other planets. It also looked far more intimidating, due to its sheer size.
If you destroy a planet in a stable star system it alters the gravitational resonant harmony of the remaining planets not to mention the bombardments from the fragments hitting other objects. Planets orbits around the star would change, distances change, axial spins would change etc. In reality Khan would never have survived on Ceti Alpha 5 because by destroying a planet and altering the equilibrium formed between the various gravity wells would mean the almost absolutely certain end of life on any other life baring planets in a star system, some may even fall into their sun entirely or be thrown out of orbit permanently.
I have always believed the theory that the Imperial Navy, Death Star, and Sun Crush were built in preparation for the eventual arrival of the Yuuzhan Vong. Palpatine knew they were coming and worked to be prepared for the inevitable.
But the Rebellion mucked everything up and when the Empire fell it left the galaxy vulnerable.
Honourable mention the mass shadow generator
one superweapon i'd like to see is a disruptor, scaled up to the size of a Star Destroyer. wonder how terrifying that would be.
the Shawken Device should be used on Disney's knockoff Star Wars clone.
Wouldn’t that just be the Malevolence tho?
@@Joseph__Leonard it depends on the type of disruptor used. the Malevolence used its ion cannon to disable ships, which some disruptors can also do. but the distuptor type i have in mind would be the one used by the Zann Consortium's Mercenary Assault Squads in Empire at War: Forces of Corruption. it disintegrates flesh, wood, durasteel, and troublesome Hutts, like Jabba. it turned infantry into burned skeletons on contact, and did a lot of damage to AT-ATs. only thing that offered protection from it was shields. a disruptor like that, scaled up to the size of even a Victory Star Destroyer, is bad news for any unshielded ship or target on the ground.
I’ve heard that there are far simpler ways to decimate a planet. Fire a big enough lump of iron at a planet, and you just triggered a mass extinction event.
This is very interesting.
Center Point Station should have been mentioned as well
I have extreme doubts the Shawkin device could work as described. It's basically relying on a collision cascade to hit everything in the universe. It'd be pretty lucky to hit literally anything, even the planets and star in it's own system. Unless it somehow programmed the energy imparted into every collision to target existing matter from across the entire universe. Even if it did, unless it could also destroy black holes it would be a terrible reality reset because not much would be left to reform itself into a new universe.
Until you explained how it was suppose to work, I was expecting it to trigger vacuum decay.
At least Starkiller Base looked cool. But, how dare it stand where Galen Marek stood with that name
All these super weapons, and not one mention of the Mass Shadow Generator
Someone missed center point station the most powerful weapon ever xd
Definitely he should of included centerpoint. Was the focus of alot of starwara books as well.
@@benyelton1565 only you know like ALOT OF THEM xd
The sun crusher was ridiculous only as the size of star fighter nah that’s crazy
The shawken device is hands down the Most Broken and powerful superweapon in the history of fiction
40k: you say something?
@@mugenokami2201 Warhammer superweapons are pretty average. Superweapons from Star Wars and Star trek are leagues above that. I know every superweapon of 40k and they are good, but still Nottingham outstanding for a superweapon. Thats an undeniable fact
@@abeloth1116 one “weapon” is a real time orotary or how ever you spell it. Just if you squish a star in that the star really does go supernova.
The Disney movies are not cannon. "Starkiller base" doesn't count as a Star Wars weapon.
"A super weapon that can build other super weapons..." This is the definition of power creep. What even makes them super weapons at that point?
This is an excellent example of extended lore going too far; you literally can’t go anywhere without tripping over yet another galactic super weapon. If every weapon is apocalyptic, then they start to feel generic.
The Death Star has become a farce.
well the legends "Honor Among Thieves" had the Galactic Hyperspace inhibitor.
00:31 -- "...whenever the Death Star blasted Alderaan to pieces."
I was fairly sure the Death Star only blasted Alderaan to pieces once. Just how many times did it happen?
ik know a device that is capable of cutting a timeline but its not based in star wars, the device was meant as the last resort to clear a helpless timeline, it was made by a traveller that could also jump between idividual timelines
The most destructive super weapon in the Star Wars universe is a lazy writers pen, pencil, or word processor. Isn’t that right JJ?
Except for the last one, the death star is more impressive than you might think. How much energy is required to overcome earth's gravitational binding energy? I remembered listening to Isaac Arthur (check out his UA-cam you might just love it) talk about a Nichola dyson beam, basically the death star but with an actual star as the power source, using known physics. If forget the exact amount of energy he said was required, it was either a week's worth or a month's worth of the entire sun's output, and you'd scorch the surface of an earth sized planet, and it would have to be trained on it for a time. Rendering it uninhabitable. And the death star makes a planet explode in one shot. That thing should be able to cause a star to go supernova, based on the star crusher way of making the same thing happen, only with a beam.
Destroy the universe? That's where I keep my stuff!
The super weapons that are terrifying are small and mobile. My pick is the Xindi weapon. Watching the carving of a swath through Florida is more visceral than watching a planet explode.
For a universe ending device I imagine something that triggers a vacuum metastability event 🤔
Honable mention Mass shadow generator
You forgot the Haldo method! 😂
The major flaw with Starkiller base's suspension of disbelief lies in its construction. Not the structure itself, but the tools. You have the means and the capability to carve out entire sections of a planet in a few years on a scale never before seen in the galaxy to build your super weapon. The technology to just drill to the center of a planet is far beyond the scope of current human civilization, but they managed to turn the inside of a planet into a weapon in the same time it took to build the Death Star.
Think about that, you can literally destroy a planet to build a weapon.
So, why not just weaponize the tools if they're that efficient?
I’m surprised the Mass Shadow Generator didn’t make the cut.
Make an update on Starweirds!
You this list will be nuts when it talks about destructive abilities and the mass shadow generator doesn’t even make the cut
I know this isn’t starwars related but, the halo array from the halo series. Nothing like wiping out all life (except the new species from halo infinite) from the galaxy at the flick of a switch and being able to do it multiple times if necessary.
I love Iokath, sad we never got more about it.
Sun Crusher was basically magic.
Nah. We hereby retcon all this out of existence.
The most terrifying weapon is an idiot with a gun. Any gun. Any idiot. That being said, I think the starcrusher weapon could probably defeat all the others on this list, with some planning and forethought. And if it did not have an FTL drive, it would need a mothership, too.
"While some say that using an entire planet to create a superweapon is a bit much..."
My Stellaris empire laughs at your cheap design as it turns various barren moons and planets into actual warships.
Starkiller base ... is VERY similar if not exactly to...
Something from one of the EU books, but I don't remember which.
And yeah Suncrusher was *nuts*.
So we can say that the sun razer is very eco-friendly.
It baffles me that something named starkiller is weaker than suncrusher
Is it just me?
the sith desolator on Malachor V in star wars rebels seemed like one that i would fear, its one thing to destroy a planet its an entirely different thing to use a weapon that destroyes all life on a planet to the point that all that remains was ash, no life would be able to grow there again, Malachor V was left as a wound in the force, worse an infected wound festering with the taint of the darkside and something much deeper and darker than the dark side the sith would ever know, not because people lost their lives but because so many force sensitives lost their lives and in their last moments their anguish was burned into the very force on the planet
I'm not the only one who heard him say "Breeding" in the very beginning am I?
The sun crusher seems a bit Nomai. If you know what I mean.
If a weapon can blow up a planet why do you need something more powerful? I mean the Death Star is already overkill.
And No mention of CenterPoint Station? The thing made the Maw a Black Hole Cluster... Well it's a good thing the thing Flattened itself, aaah maybe not as it kind of released a Darkside Entity :p
What if: just a thought if all deathstars where started at the same time. And maybe not finished at the same time too
Wow i read all these books with these various super weapons and is triggering the memories...especially the sun crusher was blaster/torpedo proof too!
I would also say that destroying a single planet would have massive repercussions on the rest of the solar system in which it resides, knocking everything severely out of balance and throwing the whole solar system into chaos
Sun Crusher number one plus i dont remember correctly but from the same novel star wars champion of the force, smaller death star prototype also?
I am noticing that the Empire in one form or another tries to regain lost technology. SO its possible that the Empire secretly getting closer, and closer to old tech. Starkiller base has technologies that would allow the older stuff to come back.
perhaps u can do an episode on the on all the Grand Admirals of the Empire
I'm not sure which is more terrifying, the potential of each weapon or the highly intelligent, often apparently rational people behind them creating and firing them.
Few things are more terrifying than a person who sees death (whether of just one person or billions) as a good thing.
I still don't get how hurling chunks of the Shawken homeworld through hyperspace causes a chain reaction, even if all Shawken planet fragments hit other planets.
This is terrifying. Extremely. Imagine use of this. Terrifying. I think Sun Crusher is the most terrifying. I believe in power of Shocker Device. Terrible. May the Force be with you too
Amazing
Cosmic turbine effects gravity on a mass scale. Clever pun considering gravity is bases a mass
The creators of superweapons make them to wield The Force and ultimate power, and yet The Force sees those creations get destroyed. The Force cannot be tamed.
Bigger does not equal better.