Destroy your planet

"I will destroy your planet!"

- Darth Vader to Princess Leia

I will destroy your planet was a common saying that Darth Vader would tell known Rebel Sympathizers. He would usually back it up by actually destroying their planet.

Ways of Destruction


Darth Vader's original way of destroying a planet usually involved lots of bombs. A lot of bombs. Then after the creation of huge multitudes of star destroyers he would use tons of them to blow up a planet. However, being Star Destroyers, they would end up destroying each other in the crossfire. But after the creation of the Death Star, it became so much easier to blow up your planet with no collateral damage to Imperial property.

Minor setback
"You have failed me for the last time!"

- Darth Vader to his bomb makers.

After the destruction of the Death Star, Vader was forced to resume his bombtastic ways. But his bombs had lost their "kick", which resulted in the failure of blowing up Hoth. And Bespin, well, since the planet was mostly gas, his bombs failed to work. With the death of Darth Vader, and the Empire's defeat at Endor (Which Vader also failed to destroy), destroying one's planet ended up disappearing from the existence of the galaxy until KJA realized that being original was for good authors, and who wants to be one of them?