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It could take months or years for an asteroid strike to render a planet fully uninhabitable, and in a universe with large spaceships and hyperdrives, that means
by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
It could take months or years for an asteroid strike to render a planet fully uninhabitable, and in a universe with large spaceships and hyperdrives, that means a reasonable survival rate via evacuation. So now you've committed to months and months of blockading the planet to prevent evacuation. At that point, why not just blockade the planet in the first place and wait until they run out of some sort of vital food/medicine/defense goods or the population just capitulates out of war weariness?
- timwiseman 15y agoI agree with your core point, but a blockade would not work to destroy most habitable planets. Most habitable planets in Star Wars are at least capable of self sufficiency. You would hurt their economy certainly, but most could produce enough food and other necessities to maintain a (possibly diminished) society. Coruscant is likely an exception. That one has been turned almost entirely into one city and has virtually no farmland, certainly not enough to support even a fraction of its population.
- astine 15y agoOne wonders how a planet like Courscant, with a population exceeding a trillion, could possibly import enough food to maintain its population. Sure, in Star Wars we have cheap space travel, but there's still the difficulty of distributing everything at the space ports. Perhaps they have a large hydroponics system to supplement imports?
- brmj 15y agoFrom what we've seen in the movies, the entire planet seems to have landing pads and such throughout the upper levels. If they've got a sizable fraction of the planet's surface area usable as a spaceport, distributed throughout essentially the entire planet, any logistical problems would not come from getting things between the spaceports and where they are needed.