On Sat, 3 May 1997, John Dynon wrote:

 If you add in a Death Star, may you be @bapped for all eternity.  Thes
guys destroy planets on their own.. what use would they have for something
as idiotically expensive and pointless as a Death Star?

It is *****NOT***** going to be serious.  And anyway, if "the ability to
destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the Force", why
didn't Vader just telekinetically blow up Alderaan?

The Force itself is the most powerful...force in the Star Wars universe.
Get someone strong enough in the Force and you could.  Vader, however,
wasn't that strong.