One of the strangest things about Star Wars: The Force Awakens is that it contains the single greatest atrocity ever seen in the franchise, which was forgotten almost instantly afterwards. To demonstrate the immense power of their technically-not-a-Death-Star ‘Starkiller’ weapon, they fire it at the Hosnian System, which contains the Republic capital Hosnian Prime. The entire system was destroyed and, as Hosnian Prime was a bustling city world, we can presume billions of people died.
But for some reason, it just doesn’t feel like that big of a deal, and fans are wondering why director J.J. Abrams chose to invent and then destroy a new city when he could have blown away the almost identical Coruscant, which we at least have some emotional connection to via the prequel trilogy.