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Interstellar Weapon

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Interstellar Weapon	type	FeatureClass
Interstellar Weapon	label	Interstellar Weapon
Interstellar Weapon	page	InterstellarWeapon
Interstellar Weapon	comment	The Interstellar equivalent of the ICBM. You fire it from a star system or from interstellar space, and it will hit a target light years away. An Interstellar Weapon is distinct from a starship or an automated weapons platform. A starship or other weapons platform goes over to the target and blows the hell out of it. An Interstellar Weapon either fires its payload from one star system, which proceeds to impact a target in another star system, or it is the payload that gets delivered from one star system to the other. If there's no faster-than-light travel in the universe of your story, though, be prepared for some serious Fridge Logic about why it doesn't take the weapon years to reach its target. If entire wars are fought this way, you can take it as the most extreme aversion of Old-School Dogfight.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_1825e407	comment	Astonishing X-Men has an arc about a giant silver bullet which was launched at Earth from some far-off alien world.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_1861f45b	type	Interstellar Weapon
Interstellar Weapon / int_1861f45b	comment	It doesn't show up in-game (missiles are fired from and land on the same planet), but these were used in in Starcraft's backstory: the planet Korhal was nuked by a thousand Apocalypse-class nuclear missiles fired from the planet Tarsonis. Nuclear weaponry on such a scale was banned after that, so the in-game ones are much, much smaller.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_20fda983	type	Interstellar Weapon
Interstellar Weapon / int_20fda983	comment	"The Three-Body Problem": The climax reveals the Trisolarans have already launched one of these in the form of an enormous fleet of warships on a one-way, slower-than-light trip to Earth so it can be conquered and colonized. Meanwhile, they use sub-atomic drones called sophons to monitor human communications and sabotage any human attempts to develop countermeasures. Later, it's discovered that the galaxy's real heavy hitters dispose of any and all other species whose homeworld they learn the location of by firing a 'photoid' at its star: a particle of matter accelerated to near-light speed, which blows a hole in the star with such violence that it explodes, incinerating every planet in orbit. Later still, those same heavyweights are revealed to know there are ways a species can survive the explosion of its star, and have a second weapon they deploy to ensure everything dies. This weapon creates an expanding field that reduces the spatial dimensions of everything within it by one; in other words it turns three dimensions into two, which nothing three-dimensional can survive. This field expands at light speed and never stops expanding. Given enough time, and unrestrained use of such weapons, the whole universe will one day be reduced to two dimensions. And this has already happened before: the universe used to be ten-dimensional, but unrestricted dimensional warfare has whittled it down to three, and is in the process of whittling it down to two, and one day may reduce it to nothing at all.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_367f632a	type	Interstellar Weapon
Interstellar Weapon / int_367f632a	comment	Downplayed in Dawn of War: Soulstorm's campaign, where the Tau's orbital stronghold has a cannon that automatically hits an enemy province no matter where in the star system it is (including another planet's moon).
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Interstellar Weapon / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	There's also the Starlancer Project, developed during the Siege of Borleias to remotely bombard the Yuuzhan Vong command ships at Coruscant from the fortified Pyria system. It's all a gigantic fake, and the Starlancer "prototype" does nothing - but it does force the Vong fleet to begin their final assault at a moment the Republic defenders dictate, allowing them to annihilate the fleet.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_45854dfc	comment	Starship Troopers sees intelligent insects launch an asteroid through interstellar space to take out Buenos Aires. Hitting Buenos Aires with an asteroid from a planet light-years away is the equivalent of hitting someone on the other side of the planet with a pebble.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_46076f2a	comment	Another old school anime that used this trope is Space Runaway Ideon, where the Buff Clan accelerates simple (albeit a kilometer-long) metal rods to speed close to that of light and flings them across space to wreck massive damage upon human colonies. Also, in the end of the series, Ideon itself generates swarms of meteors that remotely obliterate Earth and Buff Clan home planet.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_47b1287b	comment	Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger has introduced the C-Sabot Launcher, a.k.a. "God's Shotgun". To quote the strip, The C-Sabot Launcher uses a series of FTL drives to rob Hyperspace Peter to pay Kinetic Paul and launch up to several thousand projectiles at relativistic velocities. The C-Sabots exit the accelerator through a hyper-wormhole. The end result is that a target — or targets; the weapon is shown destroying 98% of an enemy fleet that was dumb enough to be in too close a formation — is bombarded by thousands of slugs moving at a large percentage of the speed of light.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_4811a5a6	comment	Asura's Wrath features a magical version, Chakravartin, who's large enough that his gravitational pull is drawing in entire galaxies shoots an equally massive laser towards Asura and Gaia from what could easily have been the Event Horizon.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_48efd670	comment	In All These Worlds, in response to the aggression of the Others, Bill attaches SURGE mover plates to a small planet and a large moon and accelerates them to near-light speeds, aiming them at the Others' home star. Several decades later, just after the Battle of Terra, they impact the star at opposite poles. The simultaneous relativistic impact results in a supernova-like explosion that wipes it every living being in that system and for several light years beyond. You do not fuck with the Bobs!
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Interstellar Weapon / int_4937d0d9	comment	In Sins of a Solar Empire, each race has its own long-range doomsday device. Keep in mind that each of these can and usually are built in groups. The TEC have the Novalith Cannon, which decimates planets. The Vasari have the Kosutra Cannon, which decimates things orbiting planets. The Advent have Deliverance Engines, which fire culture and propaganda. One particularly "happy" strategy with the TEC Novalith is to fire it at planets that belong to your "ally". Because it takes the rounds some time to hit the planet, and because you can't see the round while it's underway (you don't even get a warning), you can pre-position your ships to attack as soon as the Novalith cannon rounds hit. This is largely considered both poor sportsmanship and exceedingly clever when pulled off properly.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_4a52e0a0	comment	The Eschaton Series features guided, ramscoop-powered missiles designed to deter interplanetary invasions. If a planet is attacked, the missiles accelerate up to near-lightspeed and (eventually) hit the invaders' home planet.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_4f6620a5	comment	On one episode of Earth: Final Conflict, the Taelons developed a weapon that shot balls of lava from the Earth's core through the shows version of Hyperspace that could hit other planets in other solar systems.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern: John Stewart once used his ring to create a sniper rifle, which he used to pick off an enemy on the other side of the galaxy. The enemy in question, a Sinestro Corps member called Bedovian, has the natural ability to see across entire galaxies and act as a Cold Sniper.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: Schlock Mercenary has the Long-Gunner Of The Apocalypse, an energy weapon the size of a planetoid, which fires through instantaneous wormholes and can hit any place in the galaxy. Its later reinvented/rediscovered by other factions, with the technology being dubbed "Long Guns" resulting in a M.A.D. scenario that only takes a backseat in story focus due to the war with the Pa'anuri who also demonstrate that with the power of a core generator behind it, Long Guns can become intergalactic weapons too. There's also a number of others, including terapedoes (missiles fitted with a teraport system, theoretically letting them hit any target in the galaxy, often from the inside. Pity Teraport Area Denial systems are common), orbital plasma lancesnote ok, that was once, and it only sterilised an asteroid in interstellar space before the beam diffused enough to be harmless, cee-sabotsnote foil darts accelerated to relativistic velocities, and the Pa'anuri occasionally induce supernovae and use the blast wave to kill everything living in nearby systems.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_5cdd252	comment	How humanity is wiped out in the beginning of The Killing Star. Aliens who would rather not take the chance that we'd annihilate them decide to destroy us first, and they do so by launching missiles from their homeworld at the various inhabited planets of the Solar system. By the time the missiles arrive, they're moving at 92% of the speed of light, so we can't even see them coming before they impact.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_611c72dc	comment	The Genesis Wave in the Star Trek Novel Verse. Based on the genesis device from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the weapon fires a reality-warping wave of energy programmed to Terraform worlds in its path - to make them resemble the homeworld of the aliens who built it. Launched from an Asteroid Thicket, it destroys/reforms several planets in the Genesis Wave series.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_67c0a723	comment	Worldwar: In Harry Turtledove's Homeward Bound, after the FTL-capable Commodore Perry shows up in the orbit of Home (the Race's homeworld) in a clear case of Gunboat Diplomacy, the Race warns humans that they may have the advantage of speed (the Race doesn't expect to develop FTL-travel for at least 70 more years, now that they know it's possible), but the Race can still build ships capable of accelerating to 50% of the speed of light. Those ships can be launched to impact Earth with their great speed, causing an extinction-level event. While humans claims that they might be able to intercept the relativistic missiles, the Race representatives state that they wouldn't be able to stop them all. Odds are in the humans' favor; the existence of FTL drive make it possible (at least theoretically) to detect incoming relativistic projectiles and made enough intercept attempt on each to guarantee destruction/deflection during the time they need to crawl between the stars. And Worldwar humans have already been shown to develop tech and science much faster than the Race.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Wormholes in Farscape: low-setting, shoot a chunk of a star at a spaceship or a planet you don't like. High-setting: annihilate the entire universe in a Class-Z Apocalypse with the Negative Space Wedgie to end all Negative Space Wedgies.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_70814599	type	Interstellar Weapon
Interstellar Weapon / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: One of the Goa'uld sends an asteroid bomb on a collision course with Earth from outside the solar system. Any weapon transmitted through the Stargate is this by definition, as the Stargates are essentially interstellar delivery systems (well, wormhole generators that connect different solar systems). Especially the one that used all the Stargates in the galaxy to destroy the Replicators once and for all. There was also the Attero device in Atlantis which could cause all Wraith hyperdrives in the galaxy to explode upon activation, although it had the unfortunate drawback of destroying Stargates when used.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: The titular ringworlds are capable of wiping out all sentient life in the galaxy when fired in unison.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_7668653a	type	Interstellar Weapon
Interstellar Weapon / int_7668653a	comment	Technically, as described in such loving detail in Mass Effect 2, all kinetic weapons fall under this categorization, because once you fire a hunk of metal, it keeps going until it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on it, you are ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets. That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution. That is why, Serviceman Troper, we do not "eyeball it." It is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_7668653b	comment	The Crucible in Mass Effect 3 was supposed to be this. And it actually can become a weapon that destroys all Reapers (along with other synthetics) across the entire galaxy—but it's much more complicated than that.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_77677ed1	comment	The human Node Missiles in Sword of the Stars could be considered this, especially in the earlier versions of the game. Dozens of these could be sent to soften up enemy defenses before the arrival of the fleet. Unfortunately, later versions significantly reduced their damage and upped their cost, reducing their usefulness, especially given their slow interstellar speeds (Node Missile drives are not upgradeable). They are only slow relative to the fastest available starship drives, and even then not that much slower. They are very speedy compared to drives that would be standard when you can actually research them, should you choose to make a priority of getting them.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_7988cb68	comment	In the Mass Effect series: One of these is used in the backstory to take out a Reaper, and it grazed a planet, leaving a massive canyon/scar on the planet in question. It's theorized in the blurb that it would take a mass acceleration cannon kilometers long to create that much power. By comparison, the longest main cannon in the game series so far is half a kilometer long. Technically, as described in such loving detail in Mass Effect 2, all kinetic weapons fall under this categorization, because once you fire a hunk of metal, it keeps going until it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on it, you are ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets. That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution. That is why, Serviceman Troper, we do not "eyeball it." It is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip. The Crucible in Mass Effect 3 was supposed to be this. And it actually can become a weapon that destroys all Reapers (along with other synthetics) across the entire galaxy—but it's much more complicated than that.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_8b957d5d	comment	In Life, the Universe and Everything, a race of nihilistic aliens builds a weapon that supposedly could destroy the rest of the universe.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_8d1f3bc8	comment	An interplanetary weapon is found in Star Fox 2 in the form of IPBMs launched from planetary bases. Naturally they need to be shot down before impacting with Corneria, or else.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_aa188702	comment	It's mentioned briefly in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx that the UNSC is capable of sending nukes through slipspace. It's not actually a useful tactic, though; human slipdrives are far too inaccurate (they'll send you to the right system, but that's as accurate as they get), and nukes fired through slipspace are super-easy to detect (and therefore to counter).
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Interstellar Weapon / int_ab832518	comment	In The Forerunner Saga, the Halos produced at the Greater Ark are textbook examples of this, as they have a max range of hundreds of thousands of light-years; Omega Halo is able to wipe out an entire satellite galaxy with just one shot.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_ac07ba35	comment	In The Miracle at Palaven, thanks to the Mass Relays, it's relatively simple to send a weapon from one end of the galaxy to the next as long as there's an open Mass Relay on the other side. The tactic of sending a constant stream of Warp Bombs is used to force the Reapers to back off from the Trebia Mass Relay sufficiently that any ship that comes through doesn't get instantly shot down by Reaper forces.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_b370ddd1	comment	In Thor, we learn that keeping the Bifrost open too long will destroy any world it's currently connected to. Odin refuses to use it as a weapon of war. Loki, on the other hand...
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Interstellar Weapon / int_c09581e4	comment	The Space Battleship Yamato 2199 remake shortens the range somewhat, having the planet bombs being launched from a forward base on Pluto.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_c0a760c6	comment	Also the Galaxy Gun, which fires hyperspace-capable planet-busting missiles while remaining in orbit above Byss. The missiles are of variable yield, meaning that the Empire can dial up for destroying anything from a single ship (whenever their intel is good enough to know exactly where a major New Republic ship is at the moment) to a planet. Not only are the missiles incredibly well-shielded and thus nearly impossible to stop once they drop out of hyperspace, the fact that the Galaxy Gun itself never leaves Byss (at the time, by far the most heavily defended planet in the galaxy, with a fleet at least 10 times larger than the one the Empire had at Endor) makes attempt at a direct attack both futile and suicidal. Ultimately, the New Republic takes the Galaxy Gun out by hacking the nav computer of another Imperial superweapon, the Emperor's gigantic flagship Eclipse II, and programming it to ram the Galaxy Gun. The incredibly durable Eclipse survives this...but it doesn't survive the planet-buster missile that misfires during the ramming and hits Byss, blowing up both the planet and everything in orbit.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_c2e08381	comment	In Uchuu Senkan Yamato the Gamilas bombard Earth with radioactive bombs from their home planet. The Space Battleship Yamato 2199 remake shortens the range somewhat, having the planet bombs being launched from a forward base on Pluto.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Hand Of Omega was a weapon to manipulate solar systems. The Daleks' Reality Bomb, which would have destroyed all matter in every single universe permanently, save for the nebula it was fired from.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_e235270c	comment	The infamous Gigastructural engineering mod for Stellaris allows one to build a Nicoll-Dyson Laser (imagine a Dyson Sphere, but instead of absorbing all the output of a sun, it gets pointed in a specific direction) capable of destroying all a star system's planets from a distance. The Quasi-Stellar Obliterator is a scaled-up version built around a supermassive quasar black hole (something extremely rare — on the default settings it only has a chance of spawning as the black hole at the center of the galaxy), capable of scaling from wiping out a fleet to wiping out an entire star cluster.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_e4732abc	comment	There was also the Attero device in Atlantis which could cause all Wraith hyperdrives in the galaxy to explode upon activation, although it had the unfortunate drawback of destroying Stargates when used.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS Space features the Azrael, an (unmanned) relativistic kill vehicle that delivers 42,000,000 megatons on its target and as a bonus its missiles impact with a force of 700 megatons thanks to its kinetic speed.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_e5fd2cef	comment	Lensman had interdimensional PLANETS fired at fifteen times the speed of light through hyperspace. One to smash the enemy planet and one to supernova their star for good measure. This was followed by an intergalactic combined psychic attack...which barely worked. And to a lesser extent, planetary sized antimatter bombs, focusing the full output of a sun into a single beam, planets fitted with FTL drives and heavy armament or simply used as nutcrackers...
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Interstellar Weapon / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: Both "Dreadnought" and "Warhead" involve warp-propelled warheads.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_ef7b3325	comment	In the first appearance of the Super Skrull in the pages of Fantastic Four, once Reed Richards realized that the villain's power was being remotely beamed to him from the Skrull homeworld, he managed to improvise one of these by using the Skrulls' own power beam as a target guide for his 'space-displacer', which could bombard the Skrull homeworld with lethal radiation if they threatened the Earth again.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_f64ceaf2	comment	The Creepypasta We Know You Are Out There features an alien race that launches a relativistic missile to destroy Earth before humanity can spread its destructive existence across the stars. To their horror, they discover that mankind has become a multi-planetary civilization that has embraced pacifism by the time the missile enters the Solar System.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_fad1ddfe	comment	The Last Starfighter. Xur launches meteors at the Starfighter base.
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Interstellar Weapon / int_ffc6c28f	comment	Starship Troopers: The beings referred to as "Bugs" throw an asteroid at Earth after getting the coordinates from the "Skinnies".* who didn't make it into the live-action movie In the book, they weren't looking to hit any spot in particular; "hit Earth and damage humans" was the apparent game plan. What it did was tick the humans off and kill a lot of anti-war efforts.
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