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by LorenPechtel 945 days ago
Yeah, gravitational energy isn't enough to cause the sort of runaway reaction I'm talking about.

I'm not talking about the target increasing the energy of the Death Star, but whether the energy of the Death Star's weapon can initiate a runaway fusion reaction. Does Yavin simply go up like Alderaan, or does a good chunk of that hydrogen fuse to helium and fry everything around?