A couple frigates can liquefy an
planet's crust in a day.

True, but they're ranked on the same level canonically

There's some really funky energetic inefficiency going on

Not really

The reactors on the ships can output several yottawats peak

I'm just talking about weapon impacts on terrain

Ohh, got it

afaik the megaton figures are for max power shots

Nerds

jej

You can adjust the energy you put into the plasma before it's fired

I gave up on star wars after disney bought it tbh

Obviously if you're just targeting a building you don't want to liquefy the entire province

so
we just need to meme a starwars frigate into existence
and then nuke california from orbit

clearly

Exactly

So what you're saying is that canonically SW ships routinely underpower their combat firepower

Fuck cali

>tfw you will never have a comfy Acclamator-Class frigate where you party with your Anticom friends

feelsbadman

And yeah, max power shots require way longer cooldown times

As in several minutes of recharging

Okay

So

So less powerful shots (in the kiloton range) are preferred

40k wins in both range and dps then

fuggg

Granted

rip sheev

SW ships can access nuclear impacts way easier than IN ships can find lost caches of nuclear warheads

True

Also, 40k ships are way slower and less maneuverable iirc

Takes a good 10 minutes to set up a broadside

But, 40k lances will melt square kilometers of terrain in an extended salvo from one battery

depends on the ship

Keep in mind that on something like an Executor-Class, there are tens of thousands of turbolaser emplacements

anything eldar is pretty much "my only defence is my ability to dodge, GOOD LUCK"

So it wouldn't be unreasonable to fire each one at max power and cycle through for a continuous barrage

Executirs are oneoff vesseks

Bkeh

Nope, there were about 8 built iirc