Superlaser

A superlaser is an exteremely powerful weapon system that has seen use by numerous factions throughout galactic history. The largest superlasers ever designed, such as those in the DS-1 and DS-2 orbital battlestations, were superweapons capable of obliterating an entire planet with one shot at full power. There were also smaller-scale superlasers designed for use by and against capital ships; these could destroy even the largest vessels at a single shot—and while they would not destroy a planet, they could nonetheless quickly devastate one's surface. Much more prosaically, compact superlasers were also used in industry; the Geonosians, for example, employed compact superlasers to melt iron ore in their droid factories.