In Star Wars, the term Superweapon refers to weapons like the Death Star or Starkiller
Base that held immense power.
Well there are 25 major superweapons in the Star Wars universe, and in today’s video
we’re covering them all.
We’ll start with the canon only weapons first, and then I’ll get into Legends.
This list is specifically for Death Star-like weapons.
Some ships like the Malevolence in the Clone Wars, or even megalasers like the Silencer
are technically classified as superweapons in Legends, but I will just be covering the
major, planet-devastating, galaxy-threatening weapons.
The earliest known canon superweapon is the Sith temple on Malachor.
It was powered by a massive kyber crystal.
Thousands of years before the Battle of Yavin, the Jedi caught wind of its existence and
attacked.
The temple’s weapon was fired, and petrified all surrounding life in what became known
as the Scourge of Malachor.
Next up is of course the Galactic Empire’s Death Star.
A battle station the size of a moon, its primary weapon was a superlaser also powered by a
giant kyber crystal.
It had the ability to destroy an entire planet in a single blast.
It was destroyed by the Rebel Alliance during the Battle of Yavin.
Its successor was the Death Star II.
It was larger than the original Death Star, but for all intents and purposes it was the
same basic idea.
It was also destroyed by the Rebel Alliance at the Battle of Endor.
The final canon superweapon is Starkiller Base.
Originally an ice planet in the Unknown Regions, the First Order transformed it into a mobile
weapon with enough power to destroy entire systems.
It used the energy from nearby stars to charge its primary weapon, and harnessed a dark energy
called quintessence to fire a lightspeed beam across the galaxy, which could split apart
and destroy an entire system.
It was destroyed by the Resistance.
Moving onto Legends, the earliest known superweapon was called Centerpoint Station.
100,000 years before the Battle of Yavin, it was built by the Killiks under the instruction
of the Force Wielders.
It had the ability to project a tractor beam through hyperspace strong enough to grip planets
or even stars.
It could then move its target, or destroy it by using the tractor beam technology to
collapse its core.
It wasn’t destroyed until forty years after the Battle of Yavin.
The Star Forge was built by the Rakatan Infinite Empire 30,000 years before the Battle of Yavin.
Similar to Starkiller Base, it used the power of a nearby star to power the manufacturing
of endless ships, droids, or other war machines.
It was destroyed about 26,000 years later by Revan, Bastila Shan, and a Republic fleet
at the end of the Jedi Civil War.
The Cosmic Turbine was a planet-sized structure that was possibly created by the Celestials.
Not much is known about it other than a group of Dark Jedi took control of it, but only
succeeded in destroying themselves and the Vultar system about 4,000 years before the
Battle of Yavin.
The Planechanga were Hutt superweapons that were developed sometime prior to 15,000 BBY.
They were able to weaponize space rocks by accelerating them to speeds that could crack
open a planet’s core.
They were likely destroyed during the Hutt Cataclysms.
The Infinity Gate was a network of structures that could provide near instant travel across
the galaxy.
The gates could also be used to fire Infinity Waves that were able to suck entire worlds
into infinity, presumably killing all life there.
The Dark Reaper was created 5,000 BBY and could kill anything within its range by draining
Force energies.
It would then convert that energy into highly destructive turbolaser beams.
Hammer Station was a prototype battle station built by the Old Republic.
It used a gravity cannon that could launch asteroids at any given target at near light
speeds.
The Mass Shadow Generator was used by Revan to end the Mandalorian Wars at Malachor V.
It used the gravity of a planet to crush all life in and around the planet, but also devastated
the target planet in the process.
The Desolator was a Sith, ship-mounted planet killing weapon that was successfully tested
on the planet Uphrades, but was destroyed before it could be used again.
The Shawken Device was designed to be the most destructive superweapon in history.
It was intended to destroy the planet Shawken, and hurl its fragments at lightspeed throughout
the galaxy, which would in turn destroy more planets, and send their fragments out, causing
a chain reaction that could destroy all life in the universe.
It was never fired, and it’s unclear whether or not it would actually have worked.
The Trigon One was a weaponized satellite built by the Galactic Empire that theoretically
had the power to destroy an entire planet, but it was destroyed before it could be used.
The Infant of Shaa was a relic that could gather Force energy and then release it all
in one burst strong enough to rip a planet apart.
Jedi Master Yarael Poof was able to successfully disarm it.
The Death Star Prototype was the predecessor to both Death Stars in Legends.
It was built simply as the frame and was only powerful enough to destroy a planet’s core,
which still rendered it completely uninhabitable.
The Orbital Nightcloak was a network of satellites that could cover an entire planet in darkness.
Without access to its sun, the planet and its lifeforms would eventually freeze to death.
The Tarkin was similar in idea to the Death Star, that came equipped with a large superlaser
that could destroy a planet.
However it was the size of a warship rather than a battlestation.
Along those same lines, the Conquerer was an Imperial star destroyer armed with the
same superlaser.
The Sun Crusher was one of the most powerful super weapons ever created.
It was small in size, but nearly indestructible.
It had the power to destroy entire star systems by firing into a system’s star, causing
it to supernova.
It was destroyed by sending it into the Maw cluster of black holes.
The Galaxy Gun was yet another planet destroyer built by the Galactic Empire.
It fired hyperdrive capable projectiles with particle disintegrator warheads.
The Empire’s World Devastators used tractor beam technology to physically rip a planet
apart.
They could then collect the planet’s natural resources and use them for military parts.
The Darksaber was built by Durga the Hutt twelve years after the Battle of Yavin.
Its design was based on original plans for the Death Star and construction was overseen
by Bevel Lemelisk, the Death Star’s chief architect.
It was simply created to be a superlaser in a steel case.
Yo’gand’s Core was a biotechnological battle tactic that used a creature called
a dovin basal to manipulate the gravity of a planet.
The creature would pull a planet’s moon into the planet itself, wiping out most of
the life there.
And that’s all the major superweapons of Star Wars!
Again there are many other weapons that are technically labeled super, but they don’t
have nearly the amount of destructive power as the ones mentioned in this video.
I’m thinking sometime down the line I’ll do a list of the minor superweapons and their
abilities.
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or every AT-series walker.
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