What happens to the planet after the Dinosaur killer?

So it looks like: Big rock+planet=lava planet.
Cool.

but does it cool off so it can be colonized again?
does it stay as a glowing monument to your power?
Does the blast take out the whole damn planet, or was that 'cos it was a small planet?
Can you smack asteroids into other asteroids?
Would a small planet or moon break up into asteroids?

Answers? Opinions?
tell me what you think.

R

These are all good questions, along with will the relative size of the planet and the asteroid hitting it factor in to the damage range?

You forgot two important questions:

One: **** asteroids, can I smash PLANETS into other planets? I just build a bunch of thrusters on the north face of a planet and let 'er rip.

Two: Can I smash STARS into other STARS?!?1shiftone

I believe something to that effect was mentioned in the PC Gamer interview, though I could just be reading too much into it.

That's going to be more difficult, considering that stars don't have solid surfaces and anything that can tolerate contact with a star will be indestructible in the course of normal planet-killing warfare. You're probably just going to have to be content with fusion bombs.

What about a Shkadov thruster or something like a Dyson sphere?

I would say yes because on kickstarter i asked uber this "Briar Pol Thursday Aug 16, 1:20am EDT
I am wondering if you can crash an asteroid to a planet.. Can you use the same "Engine" scheme could you crash an enemy planet into let's say a lone star?

Uber Entertainment Inc
Thursday Aug 16, 9:11am EDT
yes"

So I would say you can crash a planet into a planet.

I was thinking about a Dyson ring (Ringworld) but a Dyson sphere would be much more interesting, and make a hell of a megastructure but some what detracting from the metal planet.

More importantly: can I then harvest the rich metal core of that planet to continue my rampage to the rest of the system?

Guys, we might be getting a bit far afield here.
I'm pretty sure that space empires 4 has that option, that might be a bit much for this game though.
I'm just wondering what happens to the planet after we smash a rock into it is all.

R

Mammals take over.