The Galactic Empire & You

Assuming you live in America.

http://www.galacticempiretimes.com/2011/05/09/galaxy/outer-rim/obi-wan-kenobi-is-killed.html#idc-cover

BEST ARTICLE EVER.

Seriously, we act like the Galactic Empire sometimes.

I loved it. A sizable minority of cops and soldiers are basically goddamn Imperial stormtroopers.

Because I didn't feel like starting another topic, here's Brian Young's Turbolaser Commentaries, where he points out that, based on the asteroid vaporization scenes in TESB, a Star Destroyer's "TL bolt has about half the energy of the Hiroshima bomb.

A bomb releases its energy in all directions, so an object immediately next to an exploding bomb won't absorb any more than half of the energy, probably much less. A TL bolt directs essentially all of it's energy to a target, therefore, a TL bolt is at least as intense as the blast from an atom bomb, even if the bomb was detonated while in contact with the target. At greater distances, the intensity of the bomb's blast decreases exponentially. A single TL bolt should have the capability to level a small town, as the Hiroshima bomb did." (Italics in original) Yeah, I probably should scale down firepower.