>>Be fair - I don't think they had an one shot planet-busting weapon
>>until the third book and that was a missile. (Until then it was a
>>matter of tractoring a really big rock for a major kinetic strike -
>>which takes months) The super laser would have impressed them.
>>
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>Hmm, not really. They did have planetbuster capability - even Dahak
>could do it with an appropriately-targeted set of hyper missiles.
>
Not with one shot though. It would probably take a number of sequenced volleys of missiles to achieve a similar result. It's a bit pointless though - only a fraction of the firepower could easily depopulate a planet - destroying the whole thing is overkill.

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