[brianeyci]

Oh, I thought of one more thing lol. You rarely see genoicide in ST, and planet-destroying weapons don't seem to exist (other than the genesis torpedo). I wonder if you could alter the massive planetary shield generator to have an obscene amount of shield points, like 99999999999999999 or something. (Or if I remember my comp sci, 65536 lol) Of course rename it to something like "Established Federation Colony" or whatever, because I don't actually remember starwars-esque planetary shielding.

Of course that would unbalance weapon platforms. But why have them? Take out weapons platforms. Then make planetary weapons the only weapons that can do enough damage to punch through the shield, and make them only mountable on huge "planet-killer" ships.