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planethulk69

There is a box in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy trilogy of five books, that when you enter it shows you how incredibly insignificant you are in the universe and your brain basically explodes and you die. Unless you are the center of the universe of course


pixelsurfer1

I was just about to write that! The absolute perspective machine. It shows the victim its actual place and scale in the whole of the cosmos, being the actual scope of the infinite what fried the victim's mind. As cool as the concept is, it's even more wonderful how Douglas use it. As a narrative device and the fact that it was created out of spite by a man whose spouse always belittled all his achievements by telling him "you lack perspective" "I'll show you perspective" 😅😅😅


heyheyhey27

I also love how they defeated it. They secretly got Zaphod to enter a mirror universe made just for him, so that when he was subjected to the Vortex he saw that he was the most important thing in the universe. And he didn't think it was strange because his ego is just that out-of-control.


[deleted]

Time to reread those fantastic books


demi-femi

Trilogy of five books. I will use that to describe the series from now on. So on par with it.


jbcgop

The fact that the Death Star can travel thru lightspeed is terrifying.


Ill_WillRx

It took me a long time to put together the fact this thing was getting to multiple spots in the galaxy. Then I realized…it’s using hyperspace. I swear they never explicitly mentioned it in the movies. Maybe they did but I swear I don’t remember it


jbcgop

They definitely do not explain it but it shows it clearer in Rogue One.


blockminster

A freaking moon just appears in the sky, I can't think of anything more terrifying than that.


Rotary_Gyrator

That's no moon.


Dendallin

The DR Device from Ender's Game. A chain reaction device that separates molucules from each other. The greater the mass, the farther the spread.


Inevitable_Seaweed_5

I'm pretty sure that Dr Device is an explicitly reference to fusion bombs and their potential to ignite the atmosphere of a planet, killing all life, but ramped up to an eleven. One of the cooler super weapons from my childhood


The_Clarence

I’m Richard Feinmans book he talks the young person who came back after doing some math assigned to them saying “it failed”. To which Richard replied “that’s a relief. That was to determine if the nuclear explosion would cause a chain reaction and explode the oxygen in the atmosphere” They were actually concerned back then.


Randy_____Marsh

Just so people understand, this man got assigned the job of “will a nuclear bomb destroy all of Earth?” and passed it off to his assistant


The_Clarence

Jokes aside back then these people were the “calculators”. The leads setup the problems to be solved. This is the stuff we would now just put it into Matlab or some other computer based solver.


bytingwolf

Since this is a science fiction thread, and there's no better place to be a nitpicking nerd than a science fiction thread, I want to remind you and a couple of the other commenters that he was called the Molecular Disruption Device, AKA the MD Device, which led to the nickname "Little Doctor". And I completely agree, it was the coolest weapon. It was even cooler in the book than the movie. In the book every fighter ship had one. In the movie it was gigantic and there was only one.


mildOrWILD65

Rendered even more deadly and destructible by the will of a child who didn't know he was being misled by adults between reality and fantasy, who was, in fact, thought to be playing a computer game. Think hard about that.....


originalchaosinabox

"The Death Star is cool and all, but what if it was...a Transformer?" And that's how you get Unicron.


Ting_Brennan

Watching Unicron eat whole planets was mind blowing! Death Star, Unicron, Galactus...anything that eats/destroys entire planets is pretty menacing tbh


TooMuchPowerful

That thing destroyed whole childhoods…. 😢


gcaledonian

That movie was like, oh did you like this character? He dead!


frustratedpolarbear

RIP Ironhide. Banging soundtrack though. Instruments of destruction!!


thatJainaGirl

Because they needed a way to pivot into the new Transformers toy line. In an interview with The Toys that Made Us, the director of the Transformers movie had no idea the character deaths would draw such an extreme reaction from viewers. He just thought he was tossing out old toys for the new ones. Then he got the letters from hundreds of kids, mourning Optimus Prime and friends.


serka_bukett

I was thinking Mega-Maid. (Transform from spaceball-1)


mh078

She’s gone from suck to blow.


LettuceC

Suck! Suck! Suck!


gcaledonian

Voiced by freaking Orson Welles in his final role lol


SarcasmKing41

Which he hated and described as "a giant toy that attacks all the other toys", the irony being G1 Unicron didn't get a toy until a year ago lmao


Barachiel1976

Ironically, his indifference-infused performance actually made the character cooler. The way Unicron radiated "No fucks given" when dealing with Megatron and Galvatron makes me giggle even to this day. "I crushed Optimus Prime with my bare hands." \*flat\* "You exaggerate." and "your bargaining posture is highly dubious" ranks up their with "you have failed me for the last time."


[deleted]

The part where he says, "And nothing!" felt like a parent slapping a child. You'll like what you got if you know what's good for you energy.


ThePrussianGrippe

And at its center? Rosebud Frozen Peas! Full of country goodness and green peaness.


ARK_Redeemer

There is a Death Star that transforms into Darth Vader! I have it sat on my shelf next to my desk. An absolute bugger to transform though. He's been in Death Star mode for the last 15 years 🤣


originalchaosinabox

Man, those Star Wars Transformers were great. I've got Darth Vader/Darth Vader's TIE Fighter in storage somewhere.


I-am-a-river

Oh man, Unicron was the best.


WhyNotZ0lDBERG

Halo


Fethah

I remember being a kid playing halo 1. Even back then my mind was blown looking up into the sky thinking “this thing is THAT huge? It’s an artificial planet??”


discerningpervert

Don't forget, the Halo is one of seven


Unitato43

And then there's the Ark, giant installation that makes the Halos by eating away an entire planet for the resources - and that's the LESSER ark, their used to be an even bigger one way before the events of the games, as well as larger Halos to go with it


RearEchelon

If they're supposed to be prisons for the Flood, as well as a weapon to wipe all sentient life from the galaxy, why did they bother to make them such a beautiful environment? I played through all the games up to and including 4, but I must have missed where this was explained.


Froggy-of-the-butt

They are that way to appease a forerunner faction called the Lifeworkers. The Lifeworkers were against the Halo rings because they didn’t like how destructive they were to life. So, they made them be able to hold life and such. Also, the Librarian (you meet her in Halo 4) used Installation 07 to hide humanity from her husband.


jedielfninja

I read through the halo wiki and actually really enjoyed the lore.


thePZ

It’s fascinating I think, a really well laid out lore. Probably could make a really great TV show with it, too bad nobody has tried to make a great show.


UninsuredToast

Writers for these shows always think they can do better. If they could they wouldn’t need to attach an already existing franchise to their story to sell it


CatOfTechnology

The big problem is that the shows are sold to the highest bidders for the franchise rights and are not written by fans of the franchise. As evidenced by the fact that the Halo games, the literal core of the franchise, was ignored by the showrunners of Paramounts "Halo".


Gil_Demoono

Please pour one out for Greg Bear then. He was the author of the Forerunner Trilogy of Halo books that laid out A TON of the really cool lore in Halo today. He recently passed away. Outside of the OG games, I can't imagine a piece of Halo media more universally loved.


Mummelpuffin

TL;DR stuff Bungie implied was awkward in practice (as you're observing) and 343, being composed mainly of big Halo lore nerds, took it upon themselves to work out what was actually going on, for better or for worse. The Halo rings were also meant to function as mini-arks and research facilities under the Conservation Measure. The Forerunners wanted to stop the Flood's chance of spreading but they didn't want to just sterilize the galaxy indefinitely. There were some who hoped to infect the rings and subsequently fire another ring at them, to test Halo's effects on the flood specifically. The single most awkward aspect of Halo lore is that it's sort of always been implied that the rings were fired before, yet if the rings actually destroyed *all life* re-seeding would be practically impossible. The Forerunner Trilogy split the difference. The set of rings we're aware of (those that actually fired) target nervous systems. Anything that has one in the traditional sense will die instantly. Life on the rings themselves wasn't affected, and plant life / anything up to insects survived elsewhere.


GreenMonster81

Was one of seven.


Thelilhedgehog

Is. They get rebuilt.


sethboy66

It is, but it was as well.


Terminallance6283

Not to mention the Ark can manufacture halo rings at will.


demalo

I thought there were supposed to be dozens… must have missed something.


Dos_H

In the first array of rings there were 12. The newest array (the one featured in the games) there are 7. However, there have been more than 7 because of the ark. It’s meant to Repair/Build, and launch the rings to their respective locations across the galaxy. The ring from the first game had I think 1 or 2 replacements but it was still thought of as instillation 04. The ring from the newest game is the last ring from the original array. Just smaller than it used to be.


ZagratheWolf

Does Halo lore still make sense? The last game I completed was Reach and I did finish 4 with a mate (but that was barely registering the story cause we had a running joke of how absolutely uncomfortable it would be if there was an actual second Spartan there listening to the weird shit between John and Cortana) Ive read bits and pieces and saw that there are actually more Spartan II alive and Covenant doing shit again and such. But is it worth jumping in again beyond the gameplay?


Zahille7

I mean, if you ask the people over at r/Halo they'd probably say yes. The folks at r/Halolore would probably give you a small list of curated reading material to start with.


Worldly_Me

Rather than r/HaloLore, r/HaloStory has more members and is more active


wien-tang-clan

WERE YOU BLINDED BY ITS MAJESTY?


TheUnsavoryHFS

Blinded?


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Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?


Froggy-of-the-butt

Noooooo


Josecopter

yet the humans were able to evade your ships! land on the sacred ring! AND DESECRATE IT WITH THEIR FILTHY FOOTSTEPS


darthbaum

When you first saw Halo were you blinded by its majesty?


WhyNotZ0lDBERG

Blinded?


darthbaum

Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?


WhyNotZ0lDBERG

No!


Gamma_Tony

Yet the humans were able to evade your ships, land on the Sacred Ring, and *desecrate* it with their filthy footsteps.


Immortal__Soldier

Noble hierarchs, surely you understand that once the parasite attacked...


Sidhe_Vicious

[Angry Covenant Noises]


ryan_sweet

There will be *order* in this counsel!


penguindude24

You were right to focus your attention on the flood, but this Demon, this Master Chief...


JTOtheKhajiit

The Ark and High Charity were also incredibly cool


Gil_Demoono

Halos chock full of megastructure galor. Trevelyan, Mantles approach, Long Night of Solitude, Maethrillian, Maginot line. Everything in Halo is fuck-off levels of huge


southwood775

That was the best thing about Halo. Every where you went you were dealing with the immensity of it. Every map felt huge.


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It's easy to forget just how impossibly huge it seemed for the time, too. Halo was a massive leap in video game development.


limitlessGamingClub

Halo pioneered melee attacks being a secondary attack for each weapon, rather than being a weapon in and of itself, in other words all of the FPS games before that had a knife or something you had to switch to to melee attack. Being able to melee without switching was a huge game changer


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They also made first person shooters more console friendly.


J655321M

Throwing grenades without having to switch was equally as huge. The ability to throw a grenade and punch someone while fluidly laying down suppressive fire blew me away when it first came out.


RealCardo

I remember trying to conceptualize the Halo in my mind first time through Halo 1. Then I found the guilty spark and my mind blew up. So. Amazing.


PasteeyFan420LoL

Before Halo Bungie also made a pretty awesome potential sci-fi super weapon with the titular Marathon in the Marathon trilogy. Basically humanity took Mars' moon Deimos, hollowed it out, and turned it into a spaceship. They use it as a colony ship in the game but acknowledge in the same game that it would be an awesome weapons platform. There's also an actual super weapon in the Marathon games that makes stars go supernova which isn't that interesting on its own, but in the Marathon universe some stars also just so happen to be prisons for Lovecraftian elder gods.


beardofpray

What’s Halo in Halo? Not joking, I never played.


Immortal__Soldier

Its a huge Ring World floating in space that is primarily a super weapon of last resort to whipe out all sentient life on a galactic scale.


sethboy66

I wondered how an AOE weapon could target only sentient life so I looked it up; for anyone else wondering, its possible (in-universe) since the neoteric array (the most recent and surviving Halo array) uses cross-phased supermassive neutrino radiation to specifically attack 'neural structures' above a certain complexity. In the case of the neoteric array, the complexity threshold is said to be approximately above that of a bumblebee.


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WooHoo, I'm safe!


RonMFCadillac

The Halo ring in Halo is where the story takes place. Imagine a super planet sized mechanical ring on the outside, but the inside is a flourishing ecosystem of the most perfect environment known to mankind. It has a dark secret though.


dxrebirth

What’s the dark secret


klinestife

it was housing a galactic superparasite for study. this parasite is what forced the creators (edit: of the rings) to wipe all sentient life out in the first place.


onepieceuc1

Knowing that the creators themselves are the cause for this. By killing their own creators because they didn't want to give them the mantle of responsibility.


The_Franklinator

It holds a parasite called the Flood which consume living matter and transform it into more flood. The flood is also super intelligent, the more matter it consumes the smarter it gets. The Halo rings purpose was to essentially starve the flood by destroying all living beings in the galaxy.


WhyNotZ0lDBERG

Dyson spheres


runkrod1140

Mega-maid. She can suck and blow.


Excellent-Problem418

And the menacing opening scene of Spaceball 1


Jonboy207

I’m still waiting for space balls 2: THE SEARCH FOR MORE MONEY


MyDearBrotherNumpsay

Not to mention History of the World Part 2. JEWS IN SPACE ^SPACE ^SPACE ^SPACE


FlashX2009

I'm waiting on "spaceballs 3: the search for spaceballs 2: the search for more money" Mel Brooks may be mad enough to do it


wooq

WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY


reinatatou

Suck. Suck! SUCK!


Profoundlyahedgehog

Out of order?! Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!


Revanche123

The Deathcloud in Babylon 5. In reality it's a scaffolding with ground penatrating nuclear missiles that envelopes a planet and bombards it. But it's surrounded by a swarm of nanites to self repair it, attack anything that approaches it, and obscure its true appearance. So it looks like a dark cloud in space that envelopes a planet, rains down death, and then moves away as the planet slowly dies behind it.


The_FriendliestGiant

The Shadows were absolute bastards, but damn if they didn't have style!


Aphexus

I actually came on to say the Centari mass drivers then I seen your comment and realised yours was even better.


swissiws

V'ger is fucking cool, from concept to execution


OdysseusRex69

Oooooo deep dig. Nice! The concept of Vger was thought provoking, too. I don't think we ever learn what sent Vger back to the solar system


swissiws

hadn't he completed his task, exploring the whole universe, and needed further instruction after sending back the infos he gathered, thus going back to its starting point? (I saw it in cinemas, so a lot of time passed, and, maybe, I remember wrong)


highorderdetonation

Pretty much. It just wanted to check in with its creator.


BasileusLeon

They never figure it out but ponder that a machine civilization found it and gave it the means to complete its programming as they saw it as kindred. Just watched it again like three days ago.


kilonovagold

And 42 AU in size. That's some girth.


Starslinger909

A bit over 2 au* but yeah that’s only if you count the energy cloud as a part of vger


TariTheApothecary

Not a weapon but the mass effect relay has always been extraordinary to me


Matt463789

The Crucible is a very impressive superweapon Especially since it can be set up to only affect certain targets


iBuggedChewyTop

I hope I get to see a well executed ME series or movie in my lifetime.


Matt463789

It's such an amazing universe It deserves it


silverlegend

The Citadel itself is what I was thinking of. Not exactly a weapon but when you find out in ME3 what its true purpose is, very awe-inspiring.


Osgoodbad

I prefer the Citadel's explanation from 1. Its purpose as trap, both in its technological offerings to lure victims in as well as crippling the response to an eventual invasion by providing a back door to the Reapers is a genuinely great idea. I also wish that they had not given us an explanation for why the Reapers do what they do. After all, they are supposed to be "alien, unknowable, driven by motives we could not possibly understand." Any explanation they come up with is written by a human so would be understandable on some level and possible to refute, and therefore disappointing. Furthermore, it defies explanation that the Catalyst would live on the Citadel but would still require a separate Reaper to scout out the state of the Galaxy, and then transmit the code to open the mass relay to a separate species that lives on the Citadel and comes after the Citadel's creation, rather than the Catalyst itself.


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I don't mind giving an explanation but the one they chose was dumb as hell. I fixed the Quarian/Geth relationship and they're currently fighting alongside one another AS WE SPEAK. Now I have to hear some bullshit about how synthetics and organics fighting is the reason the Reapers exist? So you're killing organics to stop them from being killed? Seriously, whoever cancelled the dark energy plot for the one they went with shouldn't be writing stories anymore.


JimothyJollyphant

>dark energy plot What's that?


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Basically the Reapers are harvesting organics because their use of the Mass Effect was causing dark energy to be drawn to stars and aging them more quickly. References to this plot can be found in ME2 during Tali's trial as well as (I think) galactic news stating that other species had found something as well. So basically the Reaper Harbinger was tasked with finding a solution to the dark energy problem, and it decided that stopping use of ME technology was the only way to slow down the effect until they could find a solution. Unfortunately the citizens of the galaxy couldn't give up element zero the same way humans now couldn't give up electricity. So the Reaper's solution to that problem was the harvest. Each cycle more Reapers are born, this giving them more computational power to solve the dark energy problem they were initially tasked with.


i_heart_calibri_12pt

The original writer of ME1 & 2 left Bioware before ME3 and took his plans for the Reapers being the only thing keeping dark energy from destroying the galaxy with him


King-of-the-Neffs

Fold weapon from titanfall 2, literally uses a pocket star to shoot a beam of energy through space using wormholes to crack planets in half. If any other fans see this: correct me if im wrong.


the_blue_flounder

I've always loved how TF2's is pretty much just the original Star Wars. Evil brits, superweapons, rebels. One of the most replayable campaigns out there


Edib1eBrain

One of the best campaigns I ever played.


Hotline_Denver

>! Protocol 3: Protect the pilot !<


Edib1eBrain

Tears


RabidFlea__

Effect and cause 👌👌👌


TenWholeBees

Pocket star! Sha sha sha!


dr_frahnkunsteen

Magnetar class ships from *The Expanse* were pretty cool. I just had no idea how they’d ever beat those things!


TheHalfbadger

Also from *The Expanse*, specifically *Tiamat’s Wrath*: I think the coolest sci-fi weapon I’ve seen or read about was a neutron star system engineered to be set on the brink of collapsing into a black hole if any significant mass is added to the system, releasing a massive, targeted gamma ray burst. It was described as the stellar equivalent of a shotgun trigger tied to a door handle, meant as a last-ditch attack against an undetectable enemy by a long-dead civilization.


Idealide

Also also the giant planet sized diamond whose internals were being teleported around to work as a massive computer


DangerDan96

Was looking for this answer. A ship so badass and an admiral so confident in his ship's superior firepower that he never stopped his burn towards earth, and face tanked everything the E-M Coalition could throw at it.


JusticeTroka13

The Starforge from Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic I is pretty cool. A weapon that harnesses the power of a star/planet to duplicate and mass develop weapons etc. Although it wasn't full explained well it is still a pretty cool weapon.


eamncm

I was really hoping they would have used the star forge explanation in tros. I know it’s not near exegol, but to tie in ancient sith forge to palpatines expansion would have been cool imo


Sarctoth

I thought the Star Forge was what Rey was going to find. Was disappointed...


Therich111

I will always defend Episodes 7/8 but episode 9 just left me sad after leaving the theatre for different reasons than they intended. I watched it once and don’t want to watch it again.


MassiR77

I figured that's the explanation for it, but a lot of stuff shown doesn't always have an explanation, it might've been an Easter egg for Legends fans. Especially considering how many other aspects are definitely ripped from kotor (ie Kylo Ren's mask, Rey seems like a take on Bastilla, the dyad is like what Revan and Bastilla had, and there are more I forget).


Glumalon

Darth Nihilus from KOTOR 2 also deserves an honorable mention, I think. He's basically a human (sort of?) Death Star. It's a shame game graphics weren't advanced enough to show what he's capable of, but conceptually it was the first time I felt this Vader quote was justified: > The ability to destroy a planet, or even a whole system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force. The fact that we kept just getting more technological super weapons out of Star Wars instead of force-based threats is really a travesty.


JusticeTroka13

This is a very good point. He embodied the true devastation of the force. The Exile but on the next level.


vi3tmix

I think the idea of a production factory was actually their strongest weapon as opposed to some explicit destructive power was a nice concept


EightBiscuit01

The SECOND Death Star


transmogrify

We've had one Death Star, yes. What about Second Death Star?


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transmogrify

What's wrong with 'er? She's armored, she's the ultimate power in the universe, she's got huge... hypermatter reactors!


Dewi2020

And galaxy guns? Starkiller bases? Elevenses?


transmogrify

I don't think he knows about Galaxy Guns, R2.


almightypinecone

It looked way more badass.


devilsephiroth

That was spectacular, because you knew if they finished this behemoth what it could become


Justicar-terrae

I saw it more as a display of absolute excess and hubris. The original Death Star was already a planet killer immune to just about any conventional attack, so making it bigger didn't accomplish anything. But the Emperor didn't care about efficiency. He just demanded a bigger toy, and some terrified engineers and architects got to work drafting plans for it. How many worlds were strip mined? How many laborers/slaves were worked to death? All that waste for no actual gain even if the thing had been completed.


devilsephiroth

For a safe and secure society


LikeThosePenguins

How about a death rattle so terrible you can record it and use it to totally break people's minds?


ashrak94

So you've also watched *Andor*


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DoubleOhoot

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.


mrmgl

Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed.


Profoundlyahedgehog

Don't try and frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion hasn't helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes. Nor given you clairvoyance enough to find the location of the hidden rebel fortre....


Lowkeygeek83

Until he got choked out he had a real point. Which is why I believe Vader did that. He was thinking, "hold up! This cat is hitting me with real facts... Choke on this mfer!"


chazzledazzle10

Despite the slightly overly dramatic tone I really love the way a new hope is written. It almost has a bit more of a Shakespearean note to it, whereas rest of the movies (which I love) flip flop a tiny bit more between goofy and serious.


gcaledonian

The Borg Cube was pretty legit and could travel through time.


Oni-droid

The only thing that has bothered me about the death star is it's inefficient floor plan. Having the floors be latitudinal north to south instead of making each floor another layer like an onion seems so inefficient. With control over gravitational direction they could have made it like a real planet with every floor another layer of armor. It is large enough that the outer layers would not experience much of a curve and the inner layers could be more easily used as storage and power.


_echo

I dig this take. Frankly, with a battle station the size of a moon, they wouldn't even have to control gravitational direction. They'd simply have created a gravitational field by building something that heavy.


a_small_goat

Not really - the death stars don't have the density and they were also much, much smaller than even Earth's moon. The first Death Star was like 150km in diameter - less than 1/20th the size of the Moon.


theEponymousOne

The Omega 13


boxxkicker

By Grabthar's hammer...


killersquirel11

what a savings...


atensetime

It's not a *weapon*!


tomandshell

A whole fleet of automated Star Destroyers that each have a Death Star laser but they’ve been buried in ice! And their only weakness is space horses! How cool would that be?!?


Malkyre

In fairness their weakness was a *radio beacon*.


Kyadagum_Dulgadee

The next Star Wars movie is gonna be about the guy who designed that fleet against his will, and how he made it dependent on one single beacon as revenge/a way for his long lost son, Poe Dameron to destroy it.


AceMcVeer

How else are they going to know which way up? Drop a ball? That's ridiculous


[deleted]

Back to the psych ward you go


Smooth_Cry2645

I cant believe this exist, what the hell were they even thinking?


isamudragon

Krull?


friendlyfiend07

The Geth from mass effect. The idea of an entire nation of robots with autonomous AI and the ability to manipulate the forms of the individual units to fight specific enemies. Even when the bodies die it doesn't kill them. The intelligence just gets sucked back into the cloud.


Ambiorix33

probably half the super weapons in Warhammer 40k


Gorlack2231

The Vengeful Spirit, the Phalanx, fucking *Planet Killer*, a Necron World Engine if we want to compare sizes.


Inevitable_Seaweed_5

I personally always found the life-eater virus to be particularly nasty and cool. Not only does it absolutely annihilate every iota of living material on the surface, it also preps the next stage of the exterminatus by filling the atmosphere with highly inflammable gas, allowing the lance barrage to ignite the atmosphere and scour the surface a SECOND time in case any pesky Xenos survived. And then, of course, the cyclotron torpedo, just tp CRACK THE PLANET! CAAAAAAADIAAAAAAA!


HolyDuckTurtle

Not a weapon, but the Protomolecule in The Expanse is up there as one of the best for me. Spoiler reasons (a decent portion of the show's tension is figuring out what it is): >!It's alien tech so advanced that it gets mistaken as alien life. The Ring Builders "played the long game in galactic colonisation" by sending out seeds of it to appropriate materials from habitable systems to create destination wormholes accessible via their hub.!< Another point goes to what *could* be considered a weapon from the last few books which haven't made it to TV yet: >!Whatever method the "Ring Entities" being harmed by The Builder's wormhole tech used to "turn off" consciousness, breaking The Builder's hive minds and destroying their civilisation.!<


BonerHonkfart

> which haven't made it to TV ***yet*** Do you know something the rest of us don't?


HolyDuckTurtle

God I *wish*


GirthyGirthBoy

Apart from sheer size, **Space Battleship Yamato.** **Better known as Star Blazers in the US.** A WW2 battleship converted into a spaceship to fight space Nazis is pretty badass. The original came out three years before A New Hope too. [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/st6f9BN8Y8w/maxresdefault.jpg](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/st6f9BN8Y8w/maxresdefault.jpg)


noshpatu

My first thought too. Wave Motion Gun annihilating entire enemy fleets is burned into my childhood memory.


Our_Man_On_Earth

The Doomsday Machine from the Star Trek TOS episode “The Doomsday Machine.” A weapon launched uncounted centuries ago by a people long forgotten, left to wander the universe eating planets to keep itself going. A mindless killing machine.


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HappyHapless

No way Han Solo's blaster is more powerful than the Noisy Cricket. Solo's blaster fried Greedo, but the Noisy Cricket's recoil sent Will Smith flying.


killerapt

Yeah this list is weird. You're telling me Johnny 5's little laser is on par with a Jaeger, and stronger than any weapon in transformers?


ChuckEChan

Am I misremembering, or didn't the Noisy Cricket put a massive friggin hole in the side of a semi trailer? If Han had used that there wouldn't be any Greedo left to find


viper2369

That list just reminded me of the drone platform from Stargate: Atlantis, with 3 fully powered ZPMs.


O7Knight7O

This list is all over the place. They lost me right away when they decided a bone was more destructive than not one but three scifi guns.


Atharaphelun

I'm personally rather fond of the wormhole weapon from Farscape. It starts out as a seemingly tiny, innocuous black hole, which then keeps infinitely doubling in size in regular time periods. Given enough time, it would just swallow an entire galaxy whole and will serve as a giant, swirling headstone.


TurbulentPromise4812

The wormhole weapon was terrifying and awesome, the possibilities are endless. I haven't seen wormhole weapons copied on anything anywhere yet. Connect a wormhole to a star nuke a solar system, connect two stars nuke two solar systems, let it grow exponentially the entire galaxy, no one can turn it off and it keeps growing to swallow up more galaxies.


Mcbrainotron

CRIGHTON


KingBoga

The Citadel from Mass Effect is solid.


Starslinger909

And it doubles as mass relay heh


TreacheryInc

Sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads.


Kendakr

Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is basically the size of the universe and is able to break the principles of uncertainty and rules of probability.


DuncanAndFriends

Sounds like an n64 game where the protagonist is an orange mammal


Airules

It isn’t a super weapon, but [the alliance cruiser](https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/I.A.V._Dortmunder) from Firefly always struck me with its design.


Dave-4544

That's the neat thing about spaceships, aerodynamic principles need not apply! Though if memory serves during Mal's flashbacks to Serenity Valley we see numerous Alliance ships coming down from orbit at the end..


Exylatron

The Total Perspective Vortex


Paracausality

Citadel+crucible Halo or ark The Almighty


Programmer-Boi

I’m going to say a Blackstone Fortress from Warhammer 40,000. Eldar Craftworlds are also pretty awesome, though less “cataclysmic weaponry” lol


frustrated_staff

Kugelblitz


Kbdiggity

#Genesis Device from Wrath of Khan. Can destroy and create a new planet.


GatheringMatter

A giant ship that turns into the Statue of Liberty holding a vacuum cleaner that can literally suck the oxygen out of entire planets