What will happen when a planet gets destroyed?

Curious. Does it turn into small asteroids? Does it turn into a fiery chunk or does it just vanish after a flashy explosion?

I know we don't know but... speculate!

I guess what remains will probably stay in orbit.

Will that orbit change?

Who can say?

But destroying a planet you can't gain a bridgehead on, and that destruction having consequences for the entire game would be a very cool idea indeed.

Especially if a chunk of planet ends up on a collision course with the main planet of whomever did the destroying

What would be even better if you can colonize said chunks.
It would be a real tourist attraction for the little robots.

If its hospitable I don't see why that would be a problem. The Kickstarter video clearly shows asteroids to be buildable upon.

An infinitely reconfigurable battlefield.

I wonder if the end game will be asteroids flying around the star systems firing nukes at each other until there is nowhere left to build?

They probably just pack their stuff and move on to the next galaxy if there is nothing left to blow up. I'm sure that won't happen in-game for weeks of play, though.
And make the finale just one single asteroid... two single lonely bases sitting on each side, pumping out a single soldier every 2 minutes.

Hmm that's a good question because as far as I am aware the only thing Uber has said about planet destruction is that it will be possible and it will render a planet unusable.

I imagine that it will just deform the planet so much, that it will be unbuildable upon..

That would be kind of a let-down. I'm sure a lot of people here want to see planets just blow up into tiny pieces. I mean. I want a healthy balance of both. If it's 1 or 2 asteroids then make it unbuildable upon cause the planet just becomes too unstable.. but keep showering it with asteroids, nuking it or.. possibly ram another planet into it. I want to see them gone, and not just some awkwardly deformed thingy floating around after all that effort to remove it.

What if the planet modified its biome depending on how much hot rock gets hurled at it? Like ice planets melt into water planets. Or temperate biomes with big ice caps heat up and the water levels rise, making a naval strategy more important. Molten metal? Rock planets turn into lava planets? Small planets just break apart into more weaponized space rocks?

I'm not sure I really like the idea of just more and more craters. Eventually the planet has to be truly annihilated, right?

Absolutely no weather/biome changes, its been said many times before. The idea behind kinetic weapons is absolute destruction, if a planet is hit with enough force it will shatter, but the details are not out there yet.

Still pre-pre-alpha.

This is an interesting question.

Wouldn't a destroyed planets produce asteroids to build on eventually after they have cooled off a bit?

The common theory on the moon (our moon) is that it is the remains of a large chunk of our planet which was blasted into space by an asteroid impact.

Pity, cause it's actually pretty believable that a smaller asteroid landing anywhere on a planet would cause significant weather changes.

Asteroids, which are flying around the space, which is dangerous for your fleet or your home planet/base would be nice. But also different kinds of satellites would be nice, to block asteroids or incoming missiles or rockets (with the enemies army).