Starkiller base is really the Death Star Mk IV. It's an improvement of the Galaxy Gun.
THE GALAXY GUN: A 7,250 meter-long tube-shaped space station built above Byss. It was designed to serve as a superweapon capable of firing large, destructive projectiles equipped with particle disintegrator warheads capable of destroying an entire planet. It was also equipped with hyperdrive and sublight thrusters.
Each of these projectiles were capable of traveling through hyperspace with a speed equivalent to at least a Class .75 hyperdrive, allowing for quick traversal of interstellar distances and difficulty in detecting them until they struck. Upon exiting hyperspace and homing in on its target, the projectile's automated defenses would activate to deter enemy forces. Automated laser cannon turrets exchanged laser fire with warships while thick armor plating and powerful energy shields deflected even the most advanced ion cannons and turbolasers.
Having reached its target, powered by the missile's power core, the particle disintegrator warhead exploded, triggering immense nuclear cloud reactions that encircled the targeted world's surface within minutes. At the projectile's full power setting, the nuclear reactions were sustained until all matter had been converted into energy, effectively wiping the planet and its inhabitants off the face of the galaxy. However, there were low power settings allowing them to destroy selected cities and military bases while leaving the rest of the planet untouched.
The Death Star, a space station the size of a small moon with a hyperdrive and a planet-killer weapon. The Death Star II, an improved version of the original Death Star, minus the exhaust port weakpoint (they fired that guy). The Galaxy Gun, a much smaller space station (but still a mammoth installation that dwarfed Imperial class star destroyers) that fired a hyperdrive-capable missile that could defend itself at the hyperspace exit point and wipe out an entire planet--without leaving a debris field--a planet-killing weapon that can fire from anywhere in the galaxy!
The next step had to be: Combine the Galaxy Gun technology on a world and have it fire at multiple targets all at once--a weapon that can take out an entire solar system anywhere in the galaxy.
THE GALAXY GUN: A 7,250 meter-long tube-shaped space station built above Byss. It was designed to serve as a superweapon capable of firing large, destructive projectiles equipped with particle disintegrator warheads capable of destroying an entire planet. It was also equipped with hyperdrive and sublight thrusters.
Each of these projectiles were capable of traveling through hyperspace with a speed equivalent to at least a Class .75 hyperdrive, allowing for quick traversal of interstellar distances and difficulty in detecting them until they struck. Upon exiting hyperspace and homing in on its target, the projectile's automated defenses would activate to deter enemy forces. Automated laser cannon turrets exchanged laser fire with warships while thick armor plating and powerful energy shields deflected even the most advanced ion cannons and turbolasers.
Having reached its target, powered by the missile's power core, the particle disintegrator warhead exploded, triggering immense nuclear cloud reactions that encircled the targeted world's surface within minutes. At the projectile's full power setting, the nuclear reactions were sustained until all matter had been converted into energy, effectively wiping the planet and its inhabitants off the face of the galaxy. However, there were low power settings allowing them to destroy selected cities and military bases while leaving the rest of the planet untouched.
The Death Star, a space station the size of a small moon with a hyperdrive and a planet-killer weapon. The Death Star II, an improved version of the original Death Star, minus the exhaust port weakpoint (they fired that guy). The Galaxy Gun, a much smaller space station (but still a mammoth installation that dwarfed Imperial class star destroyers) that fired a hyperdrive-capable missile that could defend itself at the hyperspace exit point and wipe out an entire planet--without leaving a debris field--a planet-killing weapon that can fire from anywhere in the galaxy!
The next step had to be: Combine the Galaxy Gun technology on a world and have it fire at multiple targets all at once--a weapon that can take out an entire solar system anywhere in the galaxy.
