Origins: Hutts with delusions of galactic grandeur got it into their heads that they should build a superweapon (everyone is doing it!), so Durga the Hutt hires Bevel Lemelisk to design him a superlaser. While some believe a million monkeys on a million typewriters might some day produce Hamlet, it turns out thousands of simple-minded Taurill workers can't construct a working deep space cannon.
Plausible Non-Draconian Reason to Keep it Around: The Hutts use it to flash-fry entire planets' worth of meals.
Considerably Less Effective Names: the Hutt Hammer; the Girth Star; the Bootleg.
Achilles Heel: It's all heel. The darn thing doesn't work.
Further Reading: Darksaber by Kevin J. Anderson, published in 1995 by Bantam Books.
