Blog talk:AngelPieLover/Operation: Superkiller/@comment-11135771-20160118234640

Erm, no.

Well, I won't say "just plain no" - you're free to try and make something like this, but there is absolutely no way that it's ever going to happen. Why? Here are some reasons:

- Research: Superweapons are very high-tech pieces of equipment. Any navy wanting to build one would need to invest a lot of time (and I mean a LOT of time - the highest-end normal-size ship weapons built so far took half a year realtime to research, and something like this would take much longer) into research. You'd also need all the prerequisite technologies. For example if it was a laser-based weapon, you'd need to develop laser weapons, heavy lasers, capital-scale lasers, advanced energy storage, and probably antimatter reactors as well before you could even begin researching the superweapon itself.

- Time: Superweapons are generally very large and complex. It would take a lot of time in roleplay to build something of this scale, during which it would be vulnerable to attack.

- Resources: Self-explanatory. You'd need a ton of resources to build a planet-destroying superweapon.

- Political Relations: No faction would be comfortable with someone else having a planet killer. You would have literally everyone trying to stop you from building it, even your allies would likely attempt to talk you out of it because if relations ever destabilize in the future, it could be used against them.

So yeah. You could try it. But there's approximately a 0% chance you would ever get that sort of weapon operational.

P.S. For anyone wondering by the way, I've had to go back to lurking for a little while because I'm busy preparing for final exams. I'll be active again sometime in February.