Re: Weapon of coice for glassing a homeworld?
It SHOULD be easy to kill a planet from space. I bet 10 of our big nukes now properly used could start this planets destruction (Hitting a Plate edge maybe). Even a simple kinetic weapon used from space is terrbly destructive. I think the problem could be better solve by halving the firepower of point defense weapons which would allow near earth orbit weapons to become more effective. This would help the defense in many cases. Nothing a well designed Fleet could not overcome but it would swing things to the defender enough that Glassing would be tougher.
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The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but does not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later, someone will come along with a sharper sword and hack off our arms
Clausewitz
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