The Star Wars Updates: The Star Wars- Empire certainly not used the dangerous weapon hyperspace but they have always loved the superweapons like ‘Death Star’.
The film series has let out that the empire on no account used its deadliest weapon the ‘hyperspace’. And the Sith is always been linked with superweapons.
As claimed by Master Yoda in Star Wars: The clone Wars “Long ago in forgotten times, when the Sith and Jedi fought for control of the galaxy, weapons there were, of unimaginable power.” But, as might be expected that meant the revival of Sith’s skywalker saga saw the galaxy bear witness to a new age of superweapons.
Eventually, it was believed that the weapon which was successfully destroyed by Luke skywalker was of course the most famous weapon the Death Star- a massive battle station that is the size of a small moon.
However, it wasn’t the end of the Empire’s superweapon project because in the Endor system they worked on a second Death Star. In the while the Jedi planet Illum was connected into Starkiller Base on the outskirts of unknown regions. And it was too destroyed because the superweapon wasn’t ready until Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Surprisingly, the Lucas from the publishing’s latest initiative- Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace, the Charles Soule’s novel light of the Jedi is set back in 200 years and it opens with an event called ‘The Great Disasters’.
Due to the interstellar accident, the large ship caused to break up in hyperspace; it caused a mess for months across the entire Outer Rim because the chunks of debris kept emerging from hyperspace. And these fragments kept moving at light speed and they could potentially destroy the space stations, satellites, moons, and even planets if they impacted.
Because a large canister of Tibanna gas that came close to colliding with the sun would result in the dangerous expansion of the solar system the Jedi narrowly prevented the destruction.
The great disaster was an accident, yet it’s astonishing the Empire who never considered the possibility of weaponizing hyperspace deliberately doing something like this.
Envision the scenario where the empire knew that the Rebel alliance was centered somewhere in a single sector of the galaxy- that was the absolute situation they faced between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.
In the hyperspace, the empire would plainly scuttle one of their ships effectively by bombarding that entire sector. The rebels would have been either wiped out quickly or forced to abandon their entire bases at speed.
It’s simple to envision this technique being weaponized to a greater extent by futuristic navdroids, allowing the Empire to target a specific world. Without needing a Death Star they would have been in a position to destroy entire planets and just by exploding a ship they were already planning to get rid of.
However, there is likely some good reason that the Empire did pursue this strategy. Firstly they might have not thought about it.
The hyperspace is often considered as a way of getting from A to B, rather than as a weapon and it took a strategic genius like Admiral Holdo to weaponize it in The Star Wars: The Last Jedi- granted, using a different approach. They may not have believed it was worth the risk even if the Empire did consider it.
It would have been easy for the Rebels to duplicate the strategy with an easily accessible hyperspace generator.
While Mon Mothma wouldn’t have to think about that approach, unquestionably rebel leaders like Saw Gerrera would have been willing to commit Kamikaze strikes on the Galactic core, exploding themselves in order to in hyperspace in order to devastate core worlds like Coruscant and Corellia.
In star wars, the apocalyptic superweapon was never deployed at all.
