Palpatine Downgrade
Palpatine lightning blast mostly disabled the ships like an EMP, rather than doing massive amounts of physical damage. Supporting this point, the novelization implies the crashing ships weren't crippled, rather their engines exploded. Even the mass-driver cannon of an
AT-TE or laser cannons of a TIE Fighter are more than capable of destroying the engines of capital ships.
- Poe managed to right his X-wing, forgoing his display to rely on his own two eyes. But the larger capital ships required more advanced systems to stay aloft. The Tantive IV began to plummet toward the planet, and then one of its thrusters detonated. Poe was powerless to stop the blockade runner from exploding.
If an X-wing, B-wing or N-1 (a Phantom Menace-era craft) were hit with a blast capable of disabling capital ships, they'd be completely vaporized. We know this because turbolasers and even starfighter-grade laser cannons alone can instantly
vaporize ships of similar durability. Even a smaller capital ship would be destroyed by this kind of blast, since Palatine's lightning kamehameha disabled hundreds of MC80, 80A, 85 and unknown, but seemingly more massive, types of Star Cruisers. A hit of this magnitude on a single ship is the equivalent of taking hundreds of turbolaser blasts, and yet even a comparatively tiny Braha'tok-class sub-capital ship survived.
Note: Dyad separation has been completed in a different thread.
However, Palpatine is logically way more powerful than before. Firstly, he fought on par with and killed Rey, who was not just amped by a small collection of Jedi (at least two of whom were Palpatine-level, already), but a thousand. Secondly, his force lightning was far larger and more powerful than ever, it even
reduces him to "not even ashes" in a matter of moments, while he could survive his own lightning in Episode III.
- He blasted her with all his anger in the dark side. She crossed the blades and held firm, feeling a thousand presences supporting her. Her blades did more than absorb her grandfather’s energies. They deflected them back at him and the chamber around him.
- Struck by his own dark power, Palpatine shrieked as his flesh, muscle, and bone melted away, until nothing was left. Not even ash. Rey fell to the floor as rubble rained down around her.
The novelization also confirms he drew directly upon the power of the Sith proceeding him.
- He raised his perfect, healed hands, and called on all the dark power of the Force and the Sith who had come before him, and pulled their life from their very bodies. It poured from them like a river of light, leaving them weaker and weaker.
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