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** For that matter, the Expanded Universe seems to have a good amount of overkill--the Sun Crusher fires a pulse torpedo into a star to cause it to go supernova, killing the star system at large; the Centerpoint Station does this by firing a pulse blast ''through hyperspace'' to hit its target! Emperor Palpatine seems to have been particularly fond of these.
*** Palpatine didn't create Centerpoint, that was [[The Precursors]]. Palpatine ''did'', however, create the [[Dark Empire|Galaxy Gun]] which does pretty much the same thing. And the Galaxy Gun was destroyed by being [[Ramming Always Works|rammed]] by a Star Destroyer, so it's a double example of this trope.
** On a more personal scale, the [[New Jedi Order]] novel ''Star By Star'' features both the New Republic and Yuuzhan Vong revealing their newly-developed infantry. The Republic fields YVH [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|"Yuuzhan Vong Hunter"]] [[Killer Robot|battle droids]] capable of dueling ''starfighters'' and winning, and capable of incredible feats of precision, correctly identifying and gunning down infiltrators in a crowd of humans without harming the civilians; YVH droids commonly go ten-to-one against standard Vong warriors and win. On the other side, the Vong begin deploying ''voxyn'', [[Hero
* In the ''[[Halo]]'' expanded universe human ships ended up carrying salvos of "archer" anti-ship missiles that could decimate a human fleet (one archer could severely damage a destroyer) just to take down the shields of a covenant frigate. Justified that Covenant frigates can withstand tactical nuclear weapons.
** Nukes don't have quite the same bang in space as they do on a planet. With no medium for the shockwave, the destructive range is only limited to a few miles, provided the target has sufficient shielding against radiation and EMP. There's a reason [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better|MAC rounds]] work much better than nukes.
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