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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
You wouldn't have much gravitational shear (no more than the inner planets already experience from their own star
i dont know, if 10 spheres suddenly appeared from out of no where and breezed on by, especially if they suddenly pulled a stellar body in the oposite or perpendicular direction that it was traveling in, i bet there would be some rather serious tectonic problems going on.
you could plan incursions and pop a sphere in just long enough to halt a planet in its orbit, then warp it out and wait for it to fall into its sun.
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