Hi all, Last night I was watching Titan A.E. on Netflix with the family. Right at the start of it the nasty Drej use their planet killer mothership on a world. It is pretty impressive. Might something like this be available in the Galactic War? Perhaps you need an entire solar system's resources to build it and that system must have one of each type of planet of a certain size. A water planet for water in some special state to power the fusion (or whatever) reactors. A lava planet for the easy to extract liquid metals. An asteroid belt for exotic heavy metals. A gas giant for exotic gasses. A metal moon (ancient battle platform) for the technology and heart of the planet killer. Finally, a terrain planet as a staging area. If you, or your faction, control the solar system then you can set about sending the raw materials to the terrain planet. There components are assembled and transported to the metal moon. The metal moon and the terrain planet will need research buildings for the build of components and incorporating them onto the metal moon. Once built it can be sent to other solar systems along defined space lanes. It should take a long time to power up once in orbit around a planet and only have a limited amount of orbital and air defence, no drop troops. This will give strategic significance to some solar systems beyond the classical "choke-point" scenario. If you lose a planet in the system then production halts. Lose the metal moon and you lose the work you've done. The other team will first have to "reprogram" anything you've built before they get to use it. Everything would have to be pre-programmed before building could resume. Hope this makes it to Galactic War. Ride
Aren't asteroids already some kind of planet killer (or atleast transform it into a lava planet for some time rendering everything on it completely destroyed)? I also think that those huge tech moons probably will have some sort of doomsday weapon.
Yes, but they are single use and limited to a solar system. This is multi-use, travel between solar systems, require more resources to build, and adds another strategy to the Galactic War. It could also be added that these planet killers have decreasing power each time they are destroyed. First they can kill a planet. Rebuild it after defeating it and it can only raze half a planet. The next time it is destroyed it can only be used as scrap metal. Rebuilt
I'm pretty sure the metal planets are literally this. Massive projects that require crippling amounts of resources with reusable asteroid-like destructive capabilities. Mobility, I'm not so sure, but they could likely set up and modify orbital paths in much the same way as an asteroid, but with more jets (rockets, w/e). Just saying. Also, something like this would shatter the metagame. Just think; if you have something like this it's all fun and games, but if the ENEMY has something like this how, exactly, do you stop them? That's entirely the point of determining if something is "fair". You just ask yourself, would you want this used on you? I think not. It would cost too much to counter, too much to build, and guarantees the person who builds it a win, as they'd have to have pretty much won by that point to build it anyway. My 2c.
