Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27642965-20160211003725/@comment-24510587-20160922215611

The asteroid vaping obviously refers to the asteroid field scenes in ESB. Which gets you megatons at best, see below.

Not seen the town glassing thing, do you have a link to that? You literally quoted it yourself. Citation needed. Step 1. Open Wookieepedia. Step 2. Read the article for the Executor-class Star Dreadnought. Step 3. Be enlightened. Let's look at le Thermal Oscillator scene from TFA.

We see the X-Wings unloading Proton Torpedoes, an anti-capship weapon that allows fighters to maintain relevance against capital ships. I'm unfortunately not knowledgeable enough to do an actual calculation but just eyeballing I'm dubious that those explosions are even in the range of some tens of tons of TNT. See, here's the thing. Proton Bombs only are used once the shield generators fail or are about to fail. Otherwise they are quite weak. Melting an entire city sounds impressive at first but we have no time frame and no indication of the volume of material involved, it could've been single shots from gigaton weapons or days of pounding from sub-kiloton weapons.

Actually, consider the following: the Imps were denying resources to the enemy. They'd already lost the ground war. They had absolutely no reason to hold back in the bombardment of Miraglo. It stands to reason that they'd be firing at maximum power. Yet where are the holes hundreds of kilometres deep punched into the crust? Why did they carve "swathes of destruction" and leave a sea of magma instead of just causing the whole city to outright vanish from a near miss tens of kilometres away? Not seeing no teratons here. It took three Turbolasers to make a blast you can see from high orbit. I think that should say enough. I've seen that calc. Looking it up again I see 31 petajoules at the high end. Since 1 ton of TNT = 4.184 gigajoules we can see that this comes out to a little under 7.5 megatons of TNT. In 40K terms that's on the order of what you want to fight a shielded Titan using sensible calcs, not what you want to actually fight a 40K warship. Even though Macrocannons only have kiloton-grade power and are still considered hard-hitting? Citation needed. Can you actually show Vader performing feats of force power on the same scale and magnitude as Vitiate? Any random piece of Star Wars media can tell you that Anakin Skywalker is the most powerful Force user ever. He was literally borne of Midichlorians. Unless that was all a blatant lie, Vader is more powerful than Vitiate.