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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thresher" data-source="post: 1088509" data-attributes="member: 9983">Anything you can pummel with a mass driver you can do with conc missiles and turbolasers, both are a little more easier to use and versitile.The reason for this is planetary sheilds, anywhere important has them, if they dont then they just vape the atmosphere off with turbolasers and turn the surface into molten rock. Anything smaller than a deathstar scale 'gun' will just bounce off it. I suspect the planetary shield was probably implemented in the past by civilisations to both protect themselves from orbital bombardment and the odd chunk of wandering rock that hits the planet and causes an ice age.However, a Grav-shock type of weapon might be able to bypass a planets shields and SW tech level for things like Interdictor cruisers and artificial gravity on ships is there. Hit them with something the equivalent of a Rictor 10 earthquake with a focused gravity weapon from space will leave most places a real mess!</blockquote>