The Sun Crusher is an
ultimate weapon introduced by
Kevin J. Anderson in one of his post-
rebellion Star Wars fan fiction trilogies. It seems to
neutralize enemies of the
author when they read his
books,causing them to roll around on the floor with
laughter. Thus rendering them
defenseless.
What makes the Sun Crusher into the perfect
device to ruin any
trilogy?
It's
invincible. That's right,
invincible. It can fly through
suns,
planets, other
ships, etc without a scratch. You'd think this would be
sufficient in itself since, as anyone who's played
X-Wing with cheat codes knows, an
invincible ship with just a few
turbolasers can eventually waste a
Star Destroyer. But, no...
The Suncrusher can also destroy entire stars. I think the thinking behind it goes something like this..."Let's see...the
Death Star can destroy and entire planet, let's introduce something that can destroy
stars! That way you can nail five or six
planets and a
moon at the same time!
People will
love it!"
How does this
marvel of
technology destroy the
star? With
torpedoes! Wouldn't this make the
torpedoes themselves the
ultimate weapon and not the Sun Crusher, since you could presumably load the torpedoes into any ship,
launch them, and
run before your
target goes
nova?
The Sun Crusher is a weapon so
powerful that it reached out of the novels and destroyed my desire to ever read
anything by
Kevin J. Anderson again...when your novels are so terribly insulting to the
universe about which you write that they
insult a fourteen year old,(My age when I read this particular trilogy) then you know you can ruin
anything.