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[TheBiggerFish]

....That would...Whoa....

[Egan_BW]

Absurd firepower is always good.

[Bohandas]

Possibly the tech-tree for the power source would also include a Suncrusher analogue

[hector13]

Pfft, EU doesn't count no more, brah.

[KingofstarrySkies]

...So what? That means literally nothing.

[hector13]

It does!

But not really. At least for a non-cynic.

[KingofstarrySkies]

It just makes the game non-canon.

[hector13]

Oh but it is! Officially unsanctioned stuff is bad hat. Or something.

In saying that, a game like that would have nothing to do with EA. Only good things can come from that.

[RAM]

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Starkiller?
Space Empires, well, some of the series at least, have modules that can be mounted on ships that can perform various acts is system-wide destruction. You need to get the ship with the module into the system, but anything that can destroy a system can be stopped by moving or otherwise changing the system to no longer be a valid target, or putting something system-like in its path, so it is just a matter of technology. Think of it as a projectile instead of a ship, which it largely is, due to not surviving the event, factor in instantaneous and somewhat controllable point-to-point travel, and you have yourself a shoot-and-make-go-boom effect. I imagine that other games have similar technologies...

[Kot]

Couldn't you basically one-shoot stars in the later stages of Star Ruler?
I mean, it's the game that ships can finally end up being bigger than galaxies, so...

[itisnotlogical]

I want to play DayZ with some sort of absurd VR setup.

[Bohandas]

Pretty sure you can't shoot across systems or convert an entire planet into a mobile base in any space 4x games though

[Kot]

Star Ruler games.
You can have ships the size of a galaxy there. Or bigger.
So, shooting across star system isin't exactly that hard. Oh, and you totally can mount huge engines on your planets and add weapons to it so you can move it and shoot stuff.

[NullForceOmega]

Yeah, battle planets are a thing in Star Ruler, they take some pretty late game tech, you'll probably be able to build much more powerful conventional megaships by that point tho'.

[Kot]

Yeah, in that game you can actually get ships that kill stars and planets and it's not some special ability, it's just when you put a gun powerful enough to do so on one. Granted, they still use supplies and/or energy (don't really remember) and shit so there is proably a point where you could make a one-shoot (at least until refill or energy regen) Deathstar. The problem is that at this point you usually have more important things to do and Deathstars aren't actually really useful in balanced war.