KDY w-165 Planetary Turbolaser

The KDY w-165 Planetary Turbolasers is one of the most powerful powerful planetary weapons ever built. It has a power output of nearly four times that of a KDY v-150 Ion cannon like the type used by the Rebels at Hoth. A non-mobile platform, the weapon is massive, over 170 meters in total diameter and 97 meters in height. The barrel of the weapon is twenty-five meters in diameter. The reactor core is over 50 meters in diameter and allows the weapon to fire once every ten seconds. Sensor arrays mounted on the platform itself, or data fed to the weapon through orbiting battle stations or satellites load information into the targeting computers, which slowly shift the weapon into firing position. A blast from the w-165 would be strong enough to completely incapacitate a corvette-sized vessel. Sustained volleys would eventually destroy even a Star Destroyer.

Defenses on the turbolaser include four meters of permacite armor and dozens of deflector shield projectors designed to block turbolaser blasts, proton bombs, and other ordnance. Because of the turbolaser's limited fire vectors, planets may use hundreds of them and are normally part of a larger defensive network that includes ion cannons and planetary shields.