@eredin12: You mean in the Lando novels, where the Centrality Navy had decommissioned ships of three-quarters of a century? Yeah.
The officially decommissioned Imperial Cruiser Wennis bored through the blackness like a thing alive, a hungry thing, a thing with the need to kill. It had been built for that, nearly three-quarters of a century ago. Now it was an obsolete machine, displaced by more efficient killers.
Still, it served its purpose.
- Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon
But the quote in question...
They even let the local military lob a few primitive thermonuclear weapons at them to demonstrate the utter futility of, resistance. The fleet's shields glowed briefly, restoring energy consumed by the voyage out, and that was that. Almost.
Unfortunately for the Navy and high-technology aggressors everywhere in space and time, invasions cannot be conducted with continent-destroying weapons or from behind shields. Not unless you're willing to obliterate the enemy, and not at all if you're interested in taking what the enemy has: raw materials, agricultural products, certain manufactured goods, and the potential labor of her citizens.
- Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of Thnboka
Thermonuclear weapons just being useless against shielded old warships.
But I mean....nuclear weapons have been outdated for quite sometime in Star Wars, they're used but only in certain situations or the force in question modifies them to a degree that they are quite effective(Mandalorians).
On a galactic scale, nuclear armaments are kinda small time compared to what Turbolasers can do.
As far as Star Destroyers and black holes, well...yeah there's showings that a Star Destroyer can be ripped apart by a black hole in the old Marvel comics....but the thing of that is, is the Star Destroyer in question was going DIRECTLY into it and was unable to course correct in time to avoid getting sucked in, it wasn't skirting around the edge of it or anything, but was directly in it.
As far as asteroids and the like from ESB, the implication that the ISDs don't have their shields active(they were relying more on a screen of turbolaser fire), shields are only active in combat situations, which Piett later clears up when he thinks the Falcon is going to attack his Destroyer. But more to that point said asteroids were pounding the ships with the force of multi-megaton compression bombs and that specific asteroid everyone brings up, was aimed directly at the bridge....you know...the bridge where it's only protected by armored transparisteel that wouldn't be able to handle such a hard destructive force? Yeah...that...context.
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