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Kanuckistan wrote:

Kreshh wrote: And you thought the bears with guns were bad...

How about giant dragons in powered armour?

Ever seen an angry Rhun? Specifically Heinrich while wearing Tiamat?

Obviously not, as he's still alive.

...It just occued to me that my dragons grow to be large enough that I could probably give them "grenade" launchers capable of handling Kanuckistani planet crackers.

Kanuckistan wrote:...It just occued to me that my dragons grow to be large enough that I could probably give them "grenade" launchers capable of handling Kanuckistani planet crackers.

Knowing you, Kanuck, those grenade launchers still only need to be the size of the Noisy Cricket from Men in Black. The only reason you'd need dragons to wield them would be to handle the weapon's recoil without getting mortally wounded from firing the damned things.

The Cerberus Alliance wrote: Knowing you, Kanuck, those grenade launchers still only need to be the size of the Noisy Cricket from Men in Black. The only reason you'd need dragons to wield them would be to handle the weapon's recoil without getting mortally wounded from firing the damned things.

Unfortunately, even with pure neutronium, direct matter to energy conversion still has limits.

*google/wiki/math*

A quick calc says you'd need a chunk of neutronium ~10x10x65cm to fuel a conversion bomb capable of overcoming the Earth's gravitational binding energy(~2.24e+32J), with a neutronium density of 400'000'000'000'000'000 kilograms per cubic meter.

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Of course, Kanuckistani planet crackers are mining tools designed to shatter moons, planetoids, and small worlds, so most aren't quite that big.

Feh, I don't know about you Kanuck, but when I wanna take out a planet, I fire away more than one planetcracker.

If all else fails, carpet-bomb with planet-crackers.

Trailers wrote:Feh, I don't know about you Kanuck, but when I wanna take out a planet, I fire away more than one planetcracker.

If you're going to take out a planet rather than capture it, just go for broke and blow up the sun. It's whats in my strategic manual.

Er, I mean, the Sornei would never do something so barbaric*!

*unless all other strategic and diplomatic options have been exhausted first

Arizona Nova wrote: If you're going to take out a planet rather than capture it, just go for broke and blow up the sun. It's whats in my strategic manual.

Novae tend to seriously fuck up the stellar neighbourhood, however.

You're effectively committing an act of war against everyone within, atleast, several dozen lightyears.

Kanuckistan wrote:

Arizona Nova wrote: If you're going to take out a planet rather than capture it, just go for broke and blow up the sun. It's whats in my strategic manual.

Novae tend to seriously fuck up the stellar neighbourhood, however.

You're effectively committing an act of war against everyone within, atleast, several dozen lightyears.

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