• fascicle@leminal.space
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    6 hours ago

    I got as far as them using their hyperspace to launch a small ship and destroy the bigger ship, like why don’t they just make a ton of dummy ships and blow everything up that way, would have taken out the death star so easily.

    It was cool to see but right after that’s all I could think about, like why even bother building a death star, just hyper launch things all over the place

    • Malgas@beehaw.org
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      4 hours ago

      a ton of dummy ships

      We usually call those missiles. :P

      You’ve reminded me of a bit of flavor text from Starsector that I particularly like, from the missile specialization skill:

      My colleagues don’t appreciate their whimsy. You get all these little spaceships and you break all the rules 'cause they don’t need to survive landing.

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      5 hours ago

      Smacking one ship into the other creates a large debris field with unknown vectors. Allowing debris to enter a hyperspace window is dangerous according to the laws of physics that I just made up.

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        14 minutes ago

        That’s literally the explanation given for why there’s a chunk of Death Star on that one planet in 9.

        I’m not even kidding.