[Mobius]

if you're planning a planet destruction sequence I suggest to use SEXPs instead. Blowing a planet up conventionally is not a good idea.

[Scooby_Doo]

Heck just keep ramming the moon enough 

or worse yet... do the moon/earth grinding that your wingmen so love to do.   

[Mobius]

Wouldn't the effect be odd-looking?

[Scooby_Doo]

Hahaha worse yet..... Use the Colossus as a baseball bat with the moon. 

[JGZinv]

I wonder... would this be used for that Gurren Lagann idea mentioned a bit ago?

[Mongoose]

I wonder... would this be used for that Gurren Lagann idea mentioned a bit ago?

Hee...now that would be rather entertaining.

"Pierce through the heavens with your Perseus!!!"

[Enigmatic Entity]

It does seem improbable that any amount of Freespace 2 ship(s) could destroy anything of that size, unless they could create a blast radius/bomb size ratio similar to that of a nuclear bomb, and even then they would need to be under the surface and in numerous quantities.

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[ssmit132]

  at the picture.

[Vretsu]

Build a deathstar.

Just be sure to watch out for its strange new design flaws.

"Damn! They just took took out the station's only eyepiece!" /deathstar mk III flies into moon

[Woolie Wool]

It does seem improbable that any amount of Freespace 2 ship(s) could destroy anything of that size, unless they could create a blast radius/bomb size ratio similar to that of a nuclear bomb, and even then they would need to be under the surface and in numerous quantities.

If you did that you'd just have a moon with a lot more craters. Actually destroying it would take an amount of energy so stupendous that even the Shivans would take literally millions of years to generate it. It's just impossible to blow up a large moon with FS technology, period.

Also, most of the blast radius of a nuclear weapon is from the violent heat and shock waves created by dumping all that energy into the air. A nuke in space would be far less impressive.

Build a deathstar.

Just be sure to watch out for its strange new design flaws.

"Damn! They just took took out the station's only eyepiece!" /deathstar mk III flies into moon

How, exactly, is a FreeSpace civilization supposed to build a Death Star, never mind power it?

[Droid803]

Generate a subspace rift to suck the core of the planet into subspace?
Or simply blow up a nearby star and let the supernova do the rest.

[Vretsu]

How, exactly, is a FreeSpace civilization supposed to build a Death Star, never mind power it?

The same way that anyone else would build and power a death star, you fool. I am surprised that I have to explain these things.

Wait, wait, I've got a better idea. The GTVA builds a hundred death stars! And they would be escorted by Disco Stars, which would have a hundred smaller projectors that could target fighters. The Death and Disco stars would in turn by protected by a Death Sun, which would envelop everything in a massive force field, creating a mobile solar system of angry, weaponized moons of DOOM. It would annihiliate entire dimensions just by entering subspace.

[Commander Zane]

@ picture

[Woolie Wool]

How, exactly, is a FreeSpace civilization supposed to build a Death Star, never mind power it?

The same way that anyone else would build and power a death star, you fool. I am surprised that I have to explain these things.

Wait, wait, I've got a better idea. The GTVA builds a hundred death stars! And they would be escorted by Disco Stars, which would have a hundred smaller projectors that could target fighters. The Death and Disco stars would in turn by protected by a Death Sun, which would envelop everything in a massive force field, creating a mobile solar system of angry, weaponized moons of DOOM. It would annihiliate entire dimensions just by entering subspace.

And this, folks, is why we can't have nice things like serious discussions on FreeSpace technology.

[Vretsu]

You're right. I'm sorry for being silly in the "hitpoints of a moon" thread.

[Droid803]

The HP of a moon?
It's over 9000trillion!!!!!

[Commander Zane]

And this, folks, is why we can't have nice things like serious discussions on FreeSpace technology.

Simple, rule of cool.

The HP of a moon?
It's over 9000trillion!!!!!

[Pred the Penguin]

Have any of you noticed that the thread starter has not yet replied?

[StarSlayer]

Would the moon have a super-duper cap flag?

[Snail]

It's just impossible to blow up a large moon with FS technology, period.

Blow up the star.