I just offered it as a suggestion for why the Mandalorians might use Nukes in a practical sense. If Turbolasers at the time weren't strong enough to flatten cities, but nukes could, then they would be the obvious choice. I believe in the latter for atmospheric turbolaser shots. One star destroyer taking out the entire surface of a planet in an hour not only makes the concept of the Base Delta Zero pointless, but it also goes against what Han says in A New Hope about how destroying Alderaan would take more than half the Imperial Starfleet and more firepower than he'd ever seen. It ain't like Star Trek where you can melt a planet down to its mantle in a couple hours of Phaser volleys.
I don't think they're really being used as a central focus most of the time. They're omnipresent, sure, but they aren't often the main focus, unless the work is specific to them. They make cameos in The Old Republic and in Legacy, but they are there more as window dressing than as major players. I'd actually argue that with how many different variations of Mandalorians we've seen over the course of EU material, they are probably the most culturally diverse nation in all of Star Wars. The warrior culture is their motif, but how that is interpreted and what life is like for the people is vastly different depending on what you're reading. It really works in keeping with their multicultural heritage. I'd rather have the Mandalorians as a common threat than the fifty thousand Sith uprisings we're treated to nowadays.
Indeed. The Victory Star Destroyer's speciality is planetary bombardment- and what it has over ships like the Venator, is a large number of missile tubes. Implying that missiles for planetary bombardments were normal as late as the Clone Wars.
Weren't they more for destroying shields, than planetary bombardment? With it weakening the shield- sending beams through the weak spot to destroy the generator- and the rest of the fleet moving in to attack the planet? I would think shield-buster torps are expensive enough that they'd be used only on shields, not the planet's surface itself.
Ah, you're right. I just checked. But Base Delta Zero attacks were common as late as the Clone Wars, backing up your assertion about the VSD1s.
Tricky question is how severe they were- were they meltings, or just scorchings? Raising the air temperature at ground level to about 400 degrees C, would rapidly kill everything on the surface. If the ground was that warm as well- seeds might crack and die.
I agree with everything you said, except I was never a fan of them. lol But, you got my thoughts down pretty well. Unless he had a mental defect, Bardan Jusik's defection to the Mandalorians was one of the most unbelievable things I've ever read in an EU work. It's kinda funny, though, how for being such great warriors they ultimately lose pretty much every conflict they get into.
We have sort of derailed. Go here for everything you did and did not wan't to know about BDZs and planetary bombardment which are not always the same thing --> http://boards.theforce.net/threads/...-thread-mk-ii.21527953/page-451#post-50228540
