Good catch. In "Tales of the Bounty Hunters", there is a reference to a star going nova and killing an entire species. It got less attention than Alderann being destroyed 10 years earlier, and Fett never heard about it. The basic comment is that things like that happen in the galaxy, and are barely noticed.Mark wrote:Even then, its all relevent. As was mentioned before, in a small town if four people die in a fire, it impacts everybody. In a big city, four people die, and your lucky if it even makes the news. On a global scale for us, seven billion dead is unbelievable, but on a galactic scale with hundreds of other worlds with similar populations, its going to lose some impact.
So relative scale would still take effect.
For Star Trek, remember the pirates with the stealthed ship that Picard joined for a while in Gambit? Low level stealth, all they need is some extra weaponry to turn into a stealth bomber attacking colonies.