Planet cracker

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Originally Posted by JHDude

I assume "kinetic kill" means smashing some other celestial object into it. The race has focused almost all of it's research efforts into energy manipulation, so they're not exactly inclined to chuck a moon at it if they already have beams at their disposal. Besides, the original targets for the weapons were actually hollowed-out planetships, which usually had enough firepower to take out objects like that.

You don't need a moon. A old junked spacecraft will do.