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[StarWars] Why was the orbital bombardment Thrawn used in Rebels so weak?

In Star Wars Rebels Zero Hour we see a fleet of ISDs bombard a target for the first time. In Legends turbolasers were capable of causing nuclear explosions and were regarded as being gigatons in terms of firepower. However, in Rebels the firepower of a turbolaser looks weaker than a World War II battleship with the explosions looking no more bigger than a stick of dynamite. Seeing Kanan's speederbike get blown up was pretty pathetic. Real world militaries have far bigger explosions than what we see in Rebels. Is Star Wars Rebels the true strength of a ISD turbolaser battery in canon?
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Whenever Thrawn holds back on something, he's intentionally letting his enemies retreat so that he can track/interrogate them later. In Rebels, there was an incident where the Lothal group attacked some Imperial outpost and stole some starfighters. Rather than chasing them down and blowing up their ships, he let them go so that they could provide another vector for narrowing down the location of the Rebel base.