* One of these is used in the backstory of Franchise/MassEffect. It is used to take out a [[EldritchAbomination Reaper]], and it grazed a planet, leaving a ''massive'' canyon/scar on the planet in question. It's theorized in the blurb that it would take a mass acceleration cannon ''kilometers'' long to create that much power. By comparison, the longest main cannon in the game series so far is ''half a kilometer'' long.
** Technically, as described in such loving detail in Mass Effect 2, all kinetic weapons fall under this categorization, because once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Troper, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!

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** One of these is used in the backstory to take out a [[EldritchAbomination Reaper]], and it grazed a planet, leaving a ''massive'' canyon/scar on the planet in question. It's theorized in the blurb that it would take a mass acceleration cannon ''kilometers'' long to create that much power. By comparison, the longest main cannon in the game series so far is ''half a kilometer'' long.
** Technically, as described in such loving detail in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', all kinetic weapons fall under this categorization, because once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Troper, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!
** The Crucible in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' was ''supposed'' to be this. [[spoiler:And it actually can become a weapon that destroys all Reapers (along with other synthetics) across the entire galaxy--but it's much more complicated than that.]]

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