A Jedi shadow bomb was essentially a proton torpedo with the guidance package and propellant fuel replaced by packed baradium, the explosive material used in thermal detonators. Instead of locking onto a target and firing the shadow bomb like a normal torpedo, the Jedi utilized the weapon with use of the Force to propel the bomb into an enemy ship. The extra explosives stored within each missile vastly increased their individual destructive power; a pair of well-placed shadow bombs could cleave a Yuuzhan Vong corvette analog in half.