Quote Originally Posted by pendell View Post
It also renders the construction of the Death Star utterly pointless; in the OT the entire starfleet couldn't blow away a planet ... but all you really need is a hyperdrive engine and a mass of any size. Any small or medium sized terrorist group can wipe out a core world.

Respectfully,

Brian P.
Forget the hyperdrive though. Even with sublight drives you could install those on asteroids and the like and make pretty good RKV probably at FAR more efficient cost than making the Death Star. Maybe you'd need two or something so you could take out the planetary shield first but the amount of energy you can get into something going at relativistic speeds is pretty ridiculous anyways.