Concave Dish Composite Beam Superlaser

The Concave Dish Composite Beam Superlaser, often shortened to CDCBS, was a superlaser weapon system designed by Bevel Lemelisk prior to 19BBY. This weapon was used on the Death Star and the Death Star II, as well as successors such as the Death Fleet.

This design of superlaser was particularly powerful, the largest versions being able to blow up an entire planet, reducing it to an asteroid field. They could also be used to completely annihilate even the largest capital ships.

CDCBS were powered by a hypermatter annihilation reactor. They used kyber crystals to focus their multiple tributary beams into a large, primary beam. The CDCBS used on the Death Star had a total of 64 source beams, combining into eight tributary beams which combined into a single primary beam above the focusing dish.

The CDCBS used on the Death Star II had a total of 81 source beams, combining into nine tributary beans, which themselves merged into the primary beam, with eight tributaries coming from the sides of the focusing dish, and one coming from the center.