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6th May '13 9:17:37 PM ShutUpNavi

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6th May '13 12:37:42 AM Candi

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**** Speceifically, in Ender's Game, the weapon is explicitly stated to be NOT a missile. Circa 3000 years later, by CotM, it's shown to be the payload of a missile or missile-like device.
* David Weber and Steve White's ''The Shiva Option'' features this (in the form of anti-matter warhead barrages from fighter swarms) being used against a genocidal alien race as a regular tactic, once the good guys discovered the aliens communicated by telepathy. Kill anything over several hundred million on-planet, and the psychic hammerblow of the mass deaths cripples anything else in-system. Given that the alien species was a lot of ancient horror cliches come to life (including HumanResources to the point of making conquered races into planetary-scale livestock ranches), I'm inclined to rule it necessary. Especially since an earlier book in the series ended with a Terran Federation ex-President sacrificing his own health to prevent the destruction of a different species' planet where only the world government was at fault.

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**** Specifically, in Ender's Game, the weapon is explicitly stated to be NOT a missile. Circa 3000 years later, by {{CotM}}, it's shown to be the payload of a missile or missile-like device.
* David Weber and Steve White's ''The Shiva Option'' features this (in the form of anti-matter warhead barrages from fighter swarms) being used against a genocidal alien race as a regular tactic, once the good guys discovered the aliens communicated by telepathy. Kill anything over several hundred million on-planet, and the psychic hammerblow of the mass deaths cripples anything else in-system. Given that the alien species was a lot of ancient horror cliches come to life (including HumanResources to the point of making conquered races into planetary-scale livestock ranches), the inclination is to rule it necessary. Especially since an earlier book in the series ended with a Terran Federation ex-President sacrificing his own health to prevent the destruction of a different species' planet where only the world government was at fault.

6th May '13 12:34:23 AM Candi

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hunted up name of book with ending described in spoiler

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6th May '13 12:23:58 AM Candi

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6th May '13 12:23:05 AM Candi

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