Uploaded December 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Death Stars defences withstood a planet shattering barrage of Alderaanian debris and remained unscathed.

Each of the hundred kilometer wide debris traveling at relativistic velocities would have impacted with a comparable magnitude of kinetic energy to the great impact between Earth and Theia during the creation of the moon. This planetary impact involved a Mars sized planet traveling at several kilometers per second.

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