[Lorric]

The thread makes me think of a cinematic from Colony Wars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GShU0mAA9E&list=PL716DE49C7F49C680

[Kie99]

This thread reminds me of that Sol: A History mission where...

Spoiler:

...you assault Phobos and Deimos, which have been converted to installations, and then blow them up

Was thinking the same thing, as I recall they were just NTF Boadiceas renamed. As much as I enjoyed that campaign that has to be one of the worst missions ever made as far as realism is concerned.

[Kopachris]

How many hitpoints would it have?  Using this to calculate, it would take about 3.297E+16 joules to destroy it.  Tech database lists the Harbinger as having an output of 5000 MT, which equals 2.092E+19 joules, and 3200 HP of armor damage and 51200 HP of subsystem damage.

I just realized: the gravitational binding energy of Deimos can be estimated around 24 Mt, and the Tsar Bomba had an estimated yield of 57 Mt, and would have had a yield over 100 Mt if they had used a uranium tamper instead of a lead tamper (which they used to limit the fallout).  As it was, the fireball had a diameter of 8 km (2/3 the mean diameter of Deimos).  Had the bomb been detonated underground, it would have produced an earthquake measuring about 8 on the Richter scale.

We (or at least, Soviet Russia did) have the means to blow up a moon.

[BengalTiger]

Thus a Death Star would blow up if a Tsar Bomba was dropped into its ventilation shaft?

Quoting Luke:
What a piece of junk!

[Kopachris]

Thus a Death Star would blow up if a Tsar Bomba was dropped into its ventilation shaft?

Quoting Luke:
What a piece of junk!

I'd say yes.  The energy released by a 100 Mt blast is plenty to destroy any nearby intra-molecular bond.  After the destruction of the reactor's safety systems, (apparently) the runaway reaction in the Death Star's core would blow it to pieces.

[esarai]

Also we have to assume that the Tsar Bomba detonates away from the fuel storage, and if my memory serves correctly, the reactors in Star Wars use the variant of unobtanium called 'hypermatter' for their fuel, which reacts with regular matter for a 100% efficient mass-to-energy conversion.  Now, imagine the effect of rupturing the fuel storage with a big-ass nuclear bomb.  All that hypermatter now flying all over the place in a radially outward direction.  Look close enough and you might be able to see a hole appear in the side of the Death Star before it completely vaporizes.