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Super Weapons
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Darth Cognus
The Huntress™
The Death Star was an icon, memorable and imposing yet not the most practical way to ensure galactic domination. That role was supported by the imperial fleet, which isn't a super weapon but consisted of more than enough fully capable ships to ruin anyone's day, and certainly hold them down while the death moon floats over to blow up their homeworld. You could argue Vader himself was a superweapon as an unstoppable force deployed against the rebels, fulfilling a similar purpose. The movies don't offer much more to work with so anything else would be based on the expanded universe, or the sequels. There you can find references of more planet killer beams (seems to be a trend) hooked up to star destroyers, orbital cannons, probably whatever you could glue a planet killing weapon to up to and including the sequels presenting an entire planet being turned into a death star with a proper atmosphere. Yeah, the Empire isn't the most creative with this stuff.
Not a superweapon but they also made an order of 'inquisitors' who existed to take advantage of perfectly suitable dark force users without cheating on the Sith code. You're familiar with these especially if you know about Star Wars: Rebels, the animated show. To the galactic denizen, anyone brandishing a red glowy blade and telekinesis is more than terrifying enough to deal with. I may as well mention the classic, if impractical AT-AT which continues a trend of showy yet not exactly practical weapons.
Dealing with any of these, especially on-call space magicians is a tall order and the way they were dealt with, other space magic is probably the best you can hope for.
Not a superweapon but they also made an order of 'inquisitors' who existed to take advantage of perfectly suitable dark force users without cheating on the Sith code. You're familiar with these especially if you know about Star Wars: Rebels, the animated show. To the galactic denizen, anyone brandishing a red glowy blade and telekinesis is more than terrifying enough to deal with. I may as well mention the classic, if impractical AT-AT which continues a trend of showy yet not exactly practical weapons.
Dealing with any of these, especially on-call space magicians is a tall order and the way they were dealt with, other space magic is probably the best you can hope for.