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First off, irradiating the ore you want to mine is a bad idea. Second, there is nothing to suggest the Galactic Empire used beskar on a large scale, aside from some pet projects like maybe Gidoen's Darktroopers IIRC. It looks to be too rare to make any real difference in large-scale conflicts...

Well, I am only interested in the VS. perspective.

Ok, noted, your counter-arguments still don't hold water, though!

I am following the common process we used for these sorts of debate. We have visual evidence of the inferiority of Star Wars weapons that proves ICS/Wongcalcs are bunk. Blame the writers and CGI team if their actions gave Star Wars weapons a massive downgrade as compared to what ICS said Wars had.

Yeah, so you use flint-tipped arrows that have been sitting in a pile of excrement for a day instead of machine guns and artillery, sure.

I doubt it, the Deathstar and anything related to it were a lot above Gideon's pay grade, and Grand Moff Tarkin probably would have told him to sod off, this is my baby, go build yours. In any case, dirty or not, the yield is more important than the irradiation, IMHO. If you have capship level...

The primary reasons the world switched to MIRV-ed warheads a combination of cost and ABM suitability, also the ability to hit multiple targets is nice. Simply put, one big nuke is more vulnerable to interception than 10 smaller ones, which can hit a larger area and be guided autonomously. None...

Because as stated the difference between a modern nuke and a flint spear is half the time between the founding of the republic and the Battle of Yavin, of course there were space fairing civilizations prior to that, so we must add several thousands of years before the civilization that became...

Because going by ICS/Wongcalcs those little explosions are nothing. Because the whole symbolic angle is silly, how many times has a modern militaty gone symbolic by using flint-tipped spears and slings? Ok, 1 ISD, or 2 ISDs, or something would have to drag all those fighters to Mandalore, and...

A very flimsy justification, I don't buy it. not even in the context of the Tarkin doctrine. Tarkin wanted overwhelming force, not symbolic stone throwing.

Sure, and the Mandos did not have defenses that would have been built to stop modern military power because? City and planetary shields and other assorted defense installations that can stop a turbo laser should be more than ample enough to block a very low yield nuke.

Using inferior weapons does not make one more feared, it makes one look stupid.

The what now? Also getting your planet glassed by a single ISD is kinda scarier than a few dozen low-megaton/high-kiloton nukes going off, IMHO. You still aren't answering the main question, which is, "why would the empire use the equivalent of throwing rocks and slings to suppress/genocide a...

BDZ would be cheaper and more effective, if it was possible to glass a planet with just one SD firing. Also you are not answering the more important question, why would a modern military for example stockpile flint spears.

The W80 Warhead The W80 is the warhead used on the three cruise missiles currently in the U.S. arsenal - the Mod 0 with the BGM-109 Tomahawk SLCM (sea launched cruise missile), the Mod 1 with the AGM-86B ALCM (air launched cruise missile) and the AGM-129 ACM (advanced cruise missile, an air...

I was hoping that we will have a few seasons of Boba Soprano running Tatooine. IIRC 280 mm shell delivered via gun, that test happened in the 1950s. W9 (nuclear warhead) - Wikipedia We are discussing the bomb yield and the strategy, not the delivery method, the ICBM is the ebst delivery...

Oh, if you were organizing an invasion would you limit yourself to the equivalent of neolithic spears and stones, and maybe the occasional sling, or will you use the full might of your military? The disparity between modern-day nukes and what the GE should have is at least two times bigger than...

35–350 kilotonnes of TNT + reentry vehicle(Over 20 Hiroshimas IIRC). Not all that big. An ICS SD should have been able to do the job much faster, and just shooting turbolasers should be cheaper than sending tie bombers in close, you have duel costs, wear and tear, pilot hours, the danger of...

Nukes are a joke compared to most of the stuff the OT and EU empire was willing to pull: Death Stars. Golan Siege Stations. Extensive bio-weapons research. BDZ. Eclipse-class SSDs. World Devastators All of Palpatine's other genocidal toys and lackeys. Also, those nukes just sent the...

I love Star Wars, I can't stand the Star Wars Whankers, many of which were just opening their mouths and letting a certain Rodent piss right down their throat when the sequels came out. Also, such precedents as the one I quoted are a dime a dozen in the new Wars material.