#planet cracker

Name: USG Ishimura

Type:  Planet Cracker

Affiliation: EarthGov

Year: 2506

Background:  After the destruction of Aegis VII the Ishimura drifted for a while before arriving via shockpoint in front of a Magpie salvage crew. The ship was severely damaged, and no one was left alive onboard, save for a few necromorphs that began terrorizing the magpies.

atomic weapons were the product of einstein’s theories, introduced into the crucible that was world war 2. if the theories had been introduced during a time of peace, the idea to weaponize it may not have occurred to anyone. It may have simply turned into another way of producing energy, since creating a fission reactor is easier than making a bomb. It is conceivable that other alien races also had similar revelations during a time of war, but how many would survive such a revelation? We nearly destroyed ourselves in our time, a less prudent or less fortunate humanity might have simply bombed themselves to death by accident.

In other words, imagine other alien’s shock and horror when they find that humans have enough firepower in just 100 of those bombs to cause a nuclear winter and completely wreck a planet’s ecosystem, all 100 of which could easily fit on a standard star cruiser. an alien invading earth now would have to contend with over 15000 such weapons spread across the globe. Assuming production of bombs continues in the future, every human ship in time of war could be outfitted with the necessary power to destroy a planet.