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The Galaxy Gun was a fictional superweapon from the Star Wars universe. It appears in the Dark Empire 2 portion of the Expanded Universe.The Galaxy Gun was just one of several superweapons built by the Galactic Empire. The Galaxy Gun was a long tube that could fire large projectiles. Each projectile was designed to destroy an entire planet. As an added measure, the projectiles were capable of traveling through hyperspace, allowing for quick traversal of interstellar distances and difficulty in detecting them until they struck. It could easily have been a deterrent that would frighten star systems.
The Galaxy Gun was destroyed above the planet Byss. The astromech R2-D2, who had taken control of the Eclipse II 's computer banks, set the ship on a collison course with the Galaxy Gun. The explosion destroyed both ships. However, one last projectile exited the firing tube just before its destruction. The unguided missile was pulled in by Byss's gravitational field and drifted toward it. The missile then destroyed Byss in a major blow against the Emperor, who had used the planet as his new base of operations.
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