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*Conciseness credit goes to Silara, thank you! 
Hello all!
My name is Fatty the Founder, and I just had a thought earlier today that I felt like sharing! First off, I would like to say that this is not reactionary to any particular event, but I have seen and know of several abilities and manners in which worlds or global populations can be summarily decimated by one individual character.
My goal in suggesting this rule addition, is not to hamper the atrocities that happen around the galaxy, or to further complicated stories that don't need further complicating. My goal here, is actually to expand the stories that these atrocities create, and to give a decent weakness to the capability of single handedly destroying an entire planet or planetary population.
So then what does this rule actually mean to you? Well I'm sure all of us have at least heard of the force ability, force storm, that with the right hands had the capability of annihilating an entire planet. Or perhaps that force ritual the Sith Emperor used in the Old Republic game that absorbed the souls of everyone on a single planet? Yo'gand's Core, a vong technique to smash moons into planets? In site canon, have you heard of Donanyd conducted by Darth Apparatus? The Genocide on Togoria conducted by Kaine Zam-ahurugurh, sorry DARTH HAUNTRUSS and HER accomplice Kaine Zambrano? Druckenwell? The Druckenwell Lite that happened on Corellia before Akala smashed it up, initiated by Aiden Cater? It's pretty clear that a lot of people can lay claim to the ability to destroy massive populations on a celestial body scale, using either the force or unconventional weaponry that can't really be classified as a Superweapon, unless a character through his control, command, or natural intelligence turns it into one.
But who's to stop them from doing the same thing over and over again, save for reporting them, or Staff just flat out saying no? Why has no one IC done anything to stop these lunatics? That's the point of this rule, to provide a medium in which horrible atrocities committed by characters can be held accountable for their actions, and removed of this power, or punished for their use of the power. This is to make the destruction of a celestial body more important a character committing the act, as they now must deal with the fact that if they do, there will be repercussions of them. They don't have to acknowledge them IC, but in the OOC they must be aware they can't just destroy a planet because it's cool and looks good on your character's resume.
It also has the added benefit of hopefully discouraging people from learning ridiculous higher echelon near-deity force powers... or it might encourage it, I dunno. At least in this way however, it becomes far more regulated.
TL;DR: If you want to blow up huge things or swathes of people all over a planet, think twice because I'm suggesting that if you do this with Staff's permission, you also got to be part of an event where people hunt you down to hold you responsible, and either remove you of the ability to do it again (force sever, death, etc.), or punish you for your crimes (in the case that you already no longer hold the ability to repeat your actions).
What do you guys think?
