User:Wl219/List of fictional weapons of mass destruction


 * NB: This is my attempt to rewrite Planet killer in light of the AfD discussion.

In science fiction, weapons of mass destruction or superweapons capable of destroying a planet or star system are a common plot element.

A

 * Annihilatrix, Frisky Dingo
 * Anubis' mothership, Stargate SG-1

B

 * Base Delta Zero, Star Wars Expanded Universe
 * Beast Planet, Shadow Raiders
 * Blackstone Fortress, Warhammer 40,000
 * Buster Machine III, Gunbuster

C

 * Centerpoint Station, Star Wars Expanded Universe
 * Covenant vessels, Halo - Plasma weapons on Covenant ships can melt a planet's surface. The process is called "glassing" because the re-cooled surface becomes glass.

D

 * Dakara superweapon, Stargate SG-1
 * Dark Reaper, Star Wars Expanded Universe
 * Darksaber, Star Wars Expanded Universe
 * Death Star, Star Wars
 * Dessicator, Dark Reign: The Future of War
 * Device Ultimate, The Xenocide Mission by Ben Jeapes
 * Displacement Engine, Farscape

E

 * Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer, Star Wars Expanded Universe
 * Eigenstate mod, Quarantine by Greg Egan
 * Electron Pump, The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
 * Exterminatus, Warhammer 40,000 - A process combining different kinds of bombs.
 * Eye of Palpatine, Children of the Jedi (Star Wars Expanded Universe)

G

 * Galaxy Gun, Star Wars Expanded Universe
 * Genesis device, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Creates life when deployed on a barren world, but destroys existing life in favor of its own matrix (and is thus a weapon) when deployed on an already inhabited world.
 * Getter Beam Tomahawk and Getter Emperors, Getter Robo Armageddon

H

 * Hand of Omega, Doctor Who
 * Hydra-Cannon, Transformers: Armada

I

 * Ice-9, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut - A single crystal of Ice-9 could contaminate all the liquid water on a planet.
 * Ideon Sword and Ideon Gun, Space Runaway Ideon
 * Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator, Haredevil Hare (Looney Tunes)

K

 * Krenim temporal weapon ship, Star Trek: Voyager

L
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 * The Lexx, Lexx

M

 * Macross Cannon, Macross 7
 * Mantrid, Lexx
 * Mark IX "Gate-Buster" bomb, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis
 * Mass shadow generator, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Mega Maid, Spaceballs - The ship Spaceball One is able to suck away the atmosphere of a planet when in "Mega Maid" form.

N

 * Nova bomb, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda - Capable of causing a star to go nova.
 * NOVA Bomb, Halo - Device incorporating 9 fusion warheads that can destroy a planet when detonated.

O

 * Ori mothership, Stargate SG-1

P

 * Planet killer, Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Doomsday Machine"
 * Priors of the Ori, Stargate SG-1 - Can eventually turn a planet into a black hole; can also infect a planet's population with a highly contagious plague.
 * Project DESTINI, The Core

R

 * Reflex Cannon, Robotech
 * Ripper Ray, The Tomorrow People

S

 * Romulan warship Scimitar, Star Trek: Nemesis
 * Serpentera, Power Rangers
 * Shadow Planet Killer, Babylon 5
 * Siege cannon, Homeworld: Cataclysm
 * Species 8472 bioship, Star Trek: Voyager
 * Stargate, Stargate SG-1 - While the Stargate is benign by itself, it has been used several times in conjunction with other devices ("Redemption") or natural phenomena ("Exodus") as a weapon.
 * Star Forge, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Sun Crusher, The Jedi Academy trilogy (Star Wars Expanded Universe)

T

 * Tox Uthat, Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Captain's Holiday"

U

 * Unicron, Transformers

V

 * Veloxi Black Egg, Starflight
 * Vorlon Planet Killer, Babylon 5 - Also known as an Eclipse-class Planet Killer.

W

 * Wave motion gun, Space Battleship Yamato
 * World Devastator, Star Wars Expanded Universe

X

 * Xindi weapon ship, Star Trek: Enterprise - A larger version of the also devastating Xindi probe weapon.

Y

 * Yamato Gun, StarCraft and StarCraft II
 * Yo'gand's Core, Star Wars Expanded Universe

Z

 * Zanak, Doctor Who episode "The Pirate Planet"

Various novels and written sources

 * The Inhibitor machines from Alastair Reynolds' Inhibitor series of novels, were capable of consuming worlds over time to convert to copies of themselves, or to create weapons capable of utilising stars to destroy planets e.g. venting stellar core material in a collimated beam to burn away planetary crusts. In the same series, the "Greenfly" machines, developed by humans as terraformers, instead go rogue and start eating planets by reducing them to their atoms and rebuilding them into more such machines, as well as numerous domes filled with vegetation.
 * The Dahak-class battle station (David Weber's Heirs of Empire trilogy)
 * The Electron Pump (Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves)
 * Galactus (Marvel Universe)
 * Spacer nuclear reaction intensifier (Robots and Empire)
 * The Warworld (DC Comics)
 * Erdammeru the Void-Hound (DC Comics)
 * The Neutronium Alchemist (Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy)
 * Nova Bombs (Starship Troopers)
 * The Supernova (Matthew Reilly's Temple)
 * Stephen Baxter's Moonseed: a virus-like microscopic object (or substance made from it) that transforms substances into more copies of itself - and thus consumes Venus and then the Earth by doing so. (Baxter has also employed geomagnetic storms (see Sunstorm) and larger universal constructors (see Evolution) as planet killers.)
 * Device Ultimate in The Xenocide Mission
 * At least five methods in E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman saga: "super-atomic bombs"; a "nutcracker", consisting of crushing a planet between two others; a "negasphere," an antimatter planet; "Nth space planets" from other dimensions can be used to ram planets or even create supernovas - there was even the worrying possibility that these could cause the Big Crunch in zero time; and a "sunbeam", a way of concentrating most of a sun's energy output into a narrow beam -- this one a defensive-only weapon against nutcrackers and negaspheres.
 * In E. E. Smith's Skylark of Space series various planet-killers are used or discussed. Throwing planets and moons out of orbit, incredibly high-yield atomic or copper bombs, near-instantaneous dematerialisation of physical objects and the teleporting of close to fifty billion stars in order to wipe out a Galaxy-wide alien civilisation are all used.
 * In L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth a device is created which, when activated, causes all matter it touches to break down into its constituent molecules. This device was used on a moon, which was consumed faster than ships based on that moon could launch.
 * a bomb made of 9th-dimensional matter in Supernova
 * Mechanoid motherships (Rifts)
 * Relativistic projectiles (Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski's The Killing Star)
 * In Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, the MD (Molecular Disruption) Device, or "Doctor Device", generates a field inside which it is impossible for atoms to coexist in a molecule. The field propagates in a chain reaction, so it basically destroys all matter until it reaches pure space. This was intended for ship to ship combat, but was eventually used to destroy an entire planet.
 * In HALO: First Strike, a human weapon known as the NOVA bomb is mentioned. It is described as being made up of multiple thermal nuclear warheads with a central core of material that boosts its yield to a sufficient amount to destroy a planet and anything in the vicinity of that planet.  In HALO:  Ghosts of Onyx, the weapon is detonated on board a covenant ship orbiting a covenant world.  The planet suffered damage sufficient to render it uninhabitable and the explosion also destroyed a covenant fleet.