The Clone Wars open with an exhibition of Star Wars weaponry. We see weapons ranging from hand weapons to fighter-grade cannon to heavy-duty weapons used against capital ships.

Particularly interesting is a unique planar weapon, the seismic charge. The seismic charge has a highly focused planar blast effect; it has a yield comparable to modern strategic nukes packed into a tight band of destructive effect.

The Slave I is also equipped with gigajoule-range weaponry, with a total offensive weapon output of up to 0.2 kilotons per second. Although individual shots

Mobile ground weapons of great power are also seen; gunships look almost ready to compete with fighters for beam firepower, while giant walkers threaten to provide heavy-duty multi-megaton firepower.

The seismic charge is roughly the size and shape of a coffin. Its destructive ring-shaped shockwave violently shatters and heats asteroids.

The potential destructive radius is quite high, although destructive effects are limited to a few meters from the wave. A seismic charge used by Jango Fett in AOTC shattered a number of asteroids, some of which may have been several up to hundred meters in diameter. Limited melt effects were also present; the shockwave appears physical in nature.

The overall yield of the seismic charge may be calculated by estimating the volume of rock the blast wave could shatter. We may estimate the depth of rock the wave can shatter as between 1-5 km (1 km is roughly the upper limit of rock seen shattered onscreen, 5 km is roughly the total distance traveled), this can be broadly estimated as 60-1,500 kilotons.

The Slave I is observed firing its main guns at a high rate in pursuit of a Jedi starfighter. One such strike demolishes a piece of asteroid roughly 5-10 meters across, breaking it into fiery fragments.

The flame-filled blast seen can easily be approximated with a few tons of dynamite by modern demolition engineers, suggesting a blast of 5-35 gigajoules. The Slave I has an impressive firing rate of 10-20 shots per second; this suggests that the Slave I can dump between 50 and 700 gigawatts through its beam weapons.

The Slave I is also seen firing on a landing platform. A burst of fire marked the explosion of its impact, which threw - but did not injure - a human Jedi. This suggests a substantially less powerful strike than used against the asteroid - somewhere in the megajoule range.

Large cannon-mounting walkers demonstrated the effectiveness of heavy ground-to-air firepower during the battle at Geonosis.

We may suggest these to be comparable to the weapons of capital ships; a few hits can disable Trade Federation sphere ships, commonly understood to be the central spherical portions of the massive Trade Federation battleships. The beams appeared powerful enough to require recoil compensation, built into the structure of the giant walkers. Recoil of 10^8-9 kgm/s (plausible given the size of the walkers) would suggest a beam of 7.1-71 megatons for an EM or near-light kinetic weapon.

The absence of nuclear-grade fireballs, or measurable change in the velocity of the substantially more massive sphere ships, confirms that the weapons are no more powerful than this.