Blowing up planets nah, I've got bigger issues

Like blowing up stars, now that would be fun

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Note- This is a silly, dumb, and quite disruptive idea with regards to game balance.
That being said, this is the idea.
Blowing up planets is too small scale, the busy dictator needs faster ways to rid the galaxy of entire star systems. Specifically by blowing up the stars, now having a starkilling weapon would be a bit overpowered so I say just throw in like 60-100 logistics points worth of ships into the star and watch it go boom. What better way to express my hatred towards the Drengin than shoveling ship after ship into Drengi until it blows up? While I'm here, could you imagine the AI doing this, you're at war with someone, you're taking it to them, they've been plowing cash into building speed ships, you haven't even seen them whizzing into the Sun and then one turn boom, your home star system just goes poof. Because in space nobody can hear a boom.

Sorry, I just got tired of seeing so many threads about blowing up planets, I say if you want to blow up something big, blow up something really big.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I want to deploy WMDs in this game as well...but...

How would sending ships into a star destroy it?
The number of ships wouldnt do anything, they would need some special ability to disrupt the core process or something.



Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Something like the suncrusher from the Star Wars universe... Specially made torpedo makes a star go supernova.

If we're going to have that, lets have something that can create star systems too.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Kind of like a beefed up "genisis torpedo" from star trek?
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Making a star nova is impossible. It requires stupidtech, wanktech or perhaps technobabble.

Who knows why anyone would want to do it anyway? Probably the same people that would cry like little girls when it happened to *them*... after all, this isn't MoO2, and the AI actually knows how to play the game.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm curious, does anyone here actually know how a star works?
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Making a star nova is impossible. It requires stupidtech, wanktech or perhaps technobabble.

Who knows why anyone would want to do it anyway? Probably the same people that would cry like little girls when it happened to *them*... after all, this isn't MoO2, and the AI actually knows how to play the game.



Yes making a star nova is impossible. But Phasors, black hole guns, and starbases that can only defend themselves are competely legal.

Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Theoretically, if you have enough heat shielding (to survive) and a strong enough anti-gravitational field, breaking up a star should be possible, since the nuclear fussion process in the star is sustained by its mass. Of course we're talking about millions of kelvin and an anti-gravitational field that can negate million times that of earth's gravity. Keeping in mind that these figures are just OUR star, which is just a tiny little dot in comparison to most. Yet this ridiculous methodology is probably the most plausable way of actually breaking a star apart. This, might , and I emphasis, MIGHT create a supernova (No one is actually sure how it happens, all we have are pictures and speculations - and a lot of them are conflicting). The other method for causing a supernova would be to push the fusion process up a few notches and make the star burn itself out faster. Of course, for this to happen, you would need millions of times more energy than what the star normally gives out, and yet you'll probably still have to wait a few centuries for it to happen (so yeah, go ahead and try to blow up my star that way, I'll conquer your world while you wait and watch the fireworks from there).

With that said, shooting random crap into a star just makes more sparkles. The most it would do is cause a solar flare or two when it scratch the surface, but that would be about it. It doesn't matter how much mass or energy you pump into it, you'd just be tickling a giant who well... isn't ticklish. (Oh, and don't even get me started on the blackhole weapons).


IMO, it's easiest to just wait a few trillion years for them to go...
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Id like a blackhole generator, which gradually sucks everything within a certain range, say 10 parsecs, into it, say over 10 weeks.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Quit thinking so small. I want a wormhole weapon that can destroy the entire universe.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Something like the suncrusher from the Star Wars universe... Specially made torpedo makes a star go supernova.

If we're going to have that, lets have something that can create star systems too.


There was a space game from long ago that let you do that. Do you remember what it was?
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There was a space game from long ago that let you do that. Do you remember what it was?


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