Death Star Spaceship

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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

Even the Cosmic Power lens is insufficient. A 10^33 J surge would be required (given the fact that a significant amount of energy will be wasted), and the waste heat alone would vaporize the station. You would need something on the order of 6×10^19 grams of matter and antimatter (30 trillion metric tons of each). It would actually make more sense to drop the antimatter on the planet and not even worry about a laser, as it would be less dangerous to the station.

I would assume the DS turbolaser actually somehow converted a large portion of Alderaan's core into antimatter via [magic physics].