[masklinn]

> I'm not sure it's fair to argue that it would scale in such a way. Sure numerically it's an insignificant portion of the population but the Death Star still literally destroyed and entire planet and every living being on it.

Between core worlds, protectorates, governorships and colonies, the empire is estimated to cover close to 70 million inhabited worlds, and billions of uninhabitable planets.

> Rather than comparing it to bombing a wedding, I think it's more accurate to compare it to destroying every trace of some micro-nation

More like a small town taken over by entrenched terrorists.

> then cleansing any plant and animal life native to that nation.

A firebombing would do that, and that's an unfortunate side-effect more than the purpose of the act.