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A superlaser is a weapon that merges several powerful super laser beams into one single, exceedingly powerful beam. The largest superlasers can obliterate an entire planet with one shot at full power such as the Death Star, while smaller variants, such as the one found on the Conqueror, the Conqueror II & Eclipse-class dreadnaughts, can destroy other ships and devastate a planet's surface. Compact superlasers are also common.
Characteristics[]
The superlaser is composed of several exotic matter beams accelerated and amplified by gigantic focusing magnetic lenses and coils, producing a single powerful beam. Unlike turbolasers, it pulls energy from a massive hypermatter core, converting the energy present in hyperspace into highly unstable particles that were tremendously destructive in normal space. The energy delivered into a target was so great that it could cause the target's atoms to split into matter-antimatter pairs and annihilate themselves, creating hundreds of miniature singularities while generating a powerful surge capable of rupturing the barrier between normal space and hyperspace.
As any powered weapon, it drains the amount of energy required to use, resulting in different energy outputs. The Death Star's superlaser, for example, can destroy any capital ship with less than 10 percent power, crack a planet open to the core with two 30 percent shots and blow it to pieces with a full-charged fire. In such cases, the amount of energy involved was so great it would generate minuscule space-time singularities, sending part of the target's mass into hyperspace and generating a massive shockwave from high-energy tachyons from hyperspace. Due to its focusing lenses and beam intensity, the energy wasted is extremely low, leading to a very long shooting range, up to 2,000,000 kilometers (over six light-seconds away).