DOOMsday Weapons!

[King of Malta]

So we know that as the game progresses technology is going to get more and more crazy. The game wouldn't be complete without have the ability to create some sort of crazy weapon of massive destruction.

What do you think we can expect and imagine? I am curious if Wormhole users specifically will be able to wormhole a star or a planet. Suddenly a star system becomes a dead area of space or maybe turn a star into a black hole.

 

[Khezef]

Sorry, there will only be doomsDAY weapons. You won't be able to use them at night.

 

[aitaituo]

Since wormholes require stations to form them and presumably one end must be at a station, I doubt there will be a way to directly weaponize them. I would say suicide wormhole ships might eventually be possible, but wormholes apparently are short lived, so the damage would be naturally limited.

I do hope for doomsday weapons.

 

[AndreasPhokas]

that's no moon, that's a space station

 

[HeartsofMetal]

I WANT MY 40000 YOTTATON BOMB!!!

 

[AndreasPhokas]

I want a spacebattleship yamato personally

 

[Sinister2202]

a doomsday weapon would be a calling for the curtain to drop and signal for the end game... which I don't really want to see if I have a really great game session. If it is in the game, I want an option to disable them.

 

[Cuthuthulu]

that's no moon, that's a space station

I can imagine all the complaints when it blows up to only a few fighters.

 

[King of Malta]

a doomsday weapon would be a calling for the curtain to drop and signal for the end game... which I don't really want to see if I have a really great game session. If it is in the game, I want an option to disable them.

Of course, i seee any doomsday weapon as a massive undertaking only capable by late game powers after achieving several complex questlines. Likewise it should not be invincible or more importantly used without major consequence by player or AI. IE like the civilization that used the wormhole doomsday weapon being the entry point for extra dimensional invasion.

 

[CaesarVincens]

The real question is what do you want your doom weapon to do? Glass a planet? Vaporize a planet? Make a star go (super)nova? Vaporize a star? Create a blackhole? Create all the blackholes?
Of course most doom weapons don't make for a good story unless the good guy has a chance to stop it.

 

[myrsl0ken]

I want weapons that are fun. I don't really care about what people on teh internetz think would be "realistic". With that said, development and deployment of WMD's could be fun if done right and would surely have severe diplomatic fallout, etc..

 

[Esben_DRK]

Depending on what you call a doomsday weapon, a bunch of thermonuclear bombs will do the trick. I saw a calculation a few years back based on the original 100 MT TNT equivalent specs (I.e. not the downscaled specs that they actually tested) for the Tsar Bomb. I can't remember the numbers exactly, but apparently you don't need much more than 10 of those parachuted into Earths atmosphere at the right time and height to euphemistically blow the air off Earths - the parts of it that isn't fused into higher elements, anyway - and due to massive fallout, make the Earth fairly inhospitable, even if that doesn't happen. That's achievable with current technology (And although prohibitatively expensive, it's possible in principle to deliver the same weapons to Mars or Venus and do the same there)!
For any race that dislikes radiation, or likes their atmosphere as it is, such a weapon would surely count as a (Localised?) doomsday weapon.

If you want bigger, actually-planetary-destroyers-size, explosions, I'm fairly sure PDS has got you covered one way or another, but this is just to say that we're able to produce certain doom with the weapons we already have. There's sadly no need for imagination there.

 

[Sinister2202]

The real question is what do you want your doom weapon to do? Glass a planet? Vaporize a planet? Make a star go (super)nova? Vaporize a star? Create a blackhole? Create all the blackholes?
Of course most doom weapons don't make for a good story unless the good guy has a chance to stop it.

I can't really think of anything for space super weapon, other than purposes of blowing up planets.

 

[henzington]

Why stop at a planet when you could nova a star?

 

[RebelScum88]

Why not start weaponizing asteroids (or moons, or planets) and launch them into enemy planets to devastate them?
Sounds like the best plan to me.

 

[Rain Envy]

I can't really think of anything for space super weapon, other than purposes of blowing up planets.

How about building weapons to destroy things from an infinite pool of resources?

 

[Abayonett]

Well we most certainly need biological weapons and all sorts of deadly viruses, how else are we going to cleanse planets of filthy xenos while preserving the environment?

Anyways, nuclear weapons, biological weapons and planet destroyers ( although this might be slightly OP) should be in.

 

[myrsl0ken]

Well we most certainly need biological weapons and all sorts of deadly viruses, how else are we going to cleanse planets of filthy xenos while preserving the environment?

Anyways, nuclear weapons, biological weapons and planet destroyers ( although this might be slightly OP) should be in.

They should be in, if they provide entertaining gameplay.

 

[Abayonett]

They should be in, if they provide entertaining gameplay.

As with every feature, if they find a way to make it fun yes, otherwise we can do without.

 

[dragoon9105]

my personal favorite is the lava lamp.