Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27642965-20160211003725/@comment-43789535-20190911001428

Star Wars ship firepower has proven to be in the sub-kiloton range from all the showings and literature up to this point. No books before or after the Disney merger has ever post anything even remotely close to 200 gigaton/shot turbolasers which was only posted by 1 line, of 1 page, of 1 reference manual, AOTC:ICS that's it. So that number is at best an outlier BEFORE the Disney merger and now is de-canonozed to Legends after the Disney merger.

40K ships are more powerful than SW ships, no question, however, they are not not in the range of gigatons. Slug runner Fan posted two instances of high end firepower for a 40K IOM ship, There are only a few posts, the 2 stated above "Nemesis" and "Fear to Tread", there are a bunch more examples of much lower end firepower of 40K IOM ships from BFG books, FFG books, and other novels written by Black Library writers, so the kilotonne grade ordinance is not some low end outlier, there is plenty of written materials supporting that number and you know this.

Ships from Star Trek, Stargate, Culture, and many others are substantially more powerful per vessel.