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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OurManMute" data-source="post: 2156479" data-attributes="member: 7196">A favorite of mine is the technique used in Greg Bear's The forge of god:*POSSIBLE SPOILERS*Step 1: send a few AI probes down the planet bearing news of intergalactic peace, brotherhood and understanding. Make some vague references to some distant enemies who might some day also come here. FUD abounds.Step 2: plant nano-replicators along the planet's geological fault lines, whose only purpose is to convert matter there to high explosives (I think the book used sea water to make H-bombs) and severely weaken the planet's crust.Step 3: fire two clumps of material at the planet: one is neutronium (ultra-dense matter, basically), the other is anti-neutronium. Being very heavy and very small, these clumps will have little interaction with the planet. They will settle into a subterranean orbit around the planets core, the orbit will slowly decay because there's always some friction.The fun starts when the orbit of both clumps is completely decayed: suddenly the anti-neutronium sees a large clump of neutronium and they annihilate, relasing an enormous amount of energy in the planetary core. At the same time the explosives along the fault lines go off, converting the planet's crust to something like a cracked egg shell. The energy released in the planets core starts an enromous explosion which the crust is unable to contain. Basically the whole planet goes splat.In the mean time your AI probes have kept the planet's population so busy they can't do a thing about it until it's too late.Damn, but blowing up planets feels good. I can now imagine what made Darth Vader go to the dark side.</blockquote>

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