TC Pilot wrote:The "fisheries" quote is especially hilarious. fishery : ocean :: farm : land.
I made a mistake there. That quote's not from the Imperial Sourcebook (which refers to an ISD's ability to reduce a planet to slag), it's from Galaxy Guide 9.
What's
really hilarious is that it's in reference to an Imperial commando squad that performs acts quite similar to a DBZ.
It does say that they can perform it only "within the limits of their resources," i.e. their would-be Base Delta Zero is not the equivalent of a real one. The full quote:
[i]Galaxy Guide[/i] 9, p. 54, wrote:The First Sun is a repulsorlift infantry regiment designed primarily to run search-and-destroy missions, which the troops of the unit jocularly refer to as SLAMs (Search, Locate, Annihilate mission). Indeed, the regiment often undertakes missions with the same objective as the Empire’s "Base Delta Zero" command: the elimination of all assets of production, including factories, land, mines, fisheries, droids, and sapient beings (particularly any witnesses that may have seen atrocities being committed). Within the limits of their resources, the First Sun have proved completely reliable at achieving this self-imposed objective.
Now, the wording here still implies that total destruction of assets of production and the local population is the goal, which might imply a contradiction between this and the usual BDZ description/interpretation, which requires firepower ground troops should not be lugging around. (From what I recall, Darkstar tries to pull that card on his site, though he snips out the important last sentence.) Personally, I think rather that a First Sun SLAM is more like a BDZ on a local scale; that is, it requires broadly the same level of destruction, but on a much smaller scale (a local city or perhaps, say, county, rather than the whole planet).
