[StratComm]

I know most of you have never seen SeaQuest, but this comes to mind:

Politician: How much would it cost to get me to [insert generic place here] 2 hours early?

Captain: About $2 million.

Politician: That's ok, we'll take it out of the space budget

Don't forget the cost of moving the rocks... having a small heat-shielded bomb with a huge payload would be much easier than towing in a multiple-kilometer-wide rock and dropping it on a planet, in terms of time and fuel.  Now FS2 ignores fuel, and subspace makes moving big things seem pretty easy, but the point still holds.  The Harbringer was designed for planetary bombardment after all, so we have to assume that orbit-to-surface munitions existed up through FS1 time at least.

Sorry Mikhael, I couldn't resist

Oh, and that "render" rocks!

[Drew]

Originally posted by mikhael
Gigaton nukes would be expensive.  

for the Shivans?!?!?!?! Mik they built like a gazzilion Saths remmeber!
oh that gives me an idea, instead of falling rocks, falling Saths
the explosion of their reactors would leave a sizable dent in a planet

[Flipside]

LOL Not even Alpha 1 could do anything about that!

[Falcon]

Battleships with flak cannons firing at enemy fighters and bombers. Hmmm and maybe watching a cruiser fall out of the sky and making a huge tidal wave.

[Gloriano]

i think beam's are just enough to take anything out 4 Sathanas would Destroy whole planet i think

[Falcon]

battleships on water sorry I was not clear enough

[übermetroid]

Um...  I can't seem to be able to DL that picture.  Its gets about 1/2 way done and then quits.  Whats up with that?

[Col. Fishguts]

Originally posted by Falcon
Battleships with flak cannons firing at enemy fighters and bombers. Hmmm and maybe watching a cruiser fall out of the sky and making a huge tidal wave.

...gives the word "dropship" a hole new meaning.