[Spaceships] DS-1 Orbital Battle Station

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by vierasmarius

...Firing literally hundreds of millions of shots per turn cranks this disconnect way past 11. Together they have an output of 126 TJ, or around 2dx500 dDam (6dx5000 w/ sqrt scale) but if tracked separately they deal 6dx110,000,000! I suppose this is a fundamental flaw in attrition-based damage systems, the "death by a thousand (or hundred-million) papercuts" dilemma.

If it isn't enough in a short enough span of time to explode the planet, then "all" you're doing is melting it.

Besides, isn't killing everything on it and making it uninhabitable for geologic timeframes enough?