I believe that it should take some extra firepower to blow up the reactor core. A few laser blasts from an X-Wing and a proton torpedo or two from the Falcon isn't all that climactic. It must be one weakly built reactor to cripple under that kind of small scale firepower. Just from a practicality standpoint, you'd think that there would be some shielding around this thing just for general protection. The place is under construction, after all. Things do go haywire during construction jobs. Granted, the first DS was taken down by a single torpedo, but even that is a stretching things.

I also like the idea of the DS2 having a more realistic explosion. Having it break apart and such. Just give it a more cinematic ending instead of just being atomized with no debris of any kind.

-NJM