Spave Empires 4 and the soon to be released Space Empires 5 have weapons to destroy planets and stars.
Almost every thing in popular science fiction exists in Space Empires...creating planets, creating stars, Ringworlds, Sphereworlds, easy management of a whole list of your planets via constuction que list and other lists, real terraforming, humungous space battles via strategic or tactical, real planetary bombardment , hundreds of components for ships AND troops...yes you design mechanical troops too, what ever you wish to do in the game has a means of doing it, espionage and intelligence projects, you don't get to cheat by seeing what technologies opponents have in diplomacy...this takes intelligence projects, advaved diplomacy choices...subjugation and protectorate to name a couple, carriers with fighter bays, design your fighters with researched components, 20 races to choose from plus many neutral races or create your own, add your created races to a game, systems with up to ten planets, creating more planets from asteroids...
...I could go on and on...
At first I was a little disuaded by the older graphics (from around 2001, but not too bad) but the game just has so much depth...and several years of upgrades to make it near perfection. I fall asleep and wake up thinking of it.
Many of the concepts in Space Empires are being considered for other games but Space Empires is still moving forward with additions to Space Empires 5.
I'm
eagerly awaiting Space Empires 5.
-Wade