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FtlIsAwesome
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I've occasionally seen the idea of a "starkiller".
[fiction]
The first I saw it was in the game Star Trek Bridge Commander where a special craft fires a beam into a star to make it go supernova. But it doesn't elaborate on how.
In Andromeda (haven't seen it, only read about it) they destroy stars by reversing their gravity. This I believe would be much more powerful than a normal supernova.
[/fiction]
I'm wondering if there's a way to artificially cause a star to go supernova, or make it puff out in a planetary nebula, which I like to call a "subnova".
The only things that I can think of is colliding a neutron star at it, or do something similar to what Andromeda does.
At first I thought a massive nuclear/antimatter explosion would work, but that would need to be incredibly huge and it would only result in a subnova at best. I want the main source of the explosion to be from the star itself; I want to accelerate the fusion in the star.
PS Its late I'll add more tomorrow.
[fiction]
The first I saw it was in the game Star Trek Bridge Commander where a special craft fires a beam into a star to make it go supernova. But it doesn't elaborate on how.
In Andromeda (haven't seen it, only read about it) they destroy stars by reversing their gravity. This I believe would be much more powerful than a normal supernova.
[/fiction]
I'm wondering if there's a way to artificially cause a star to go supernova, or make it puff out in a planetary nebula, which I like to call a "subnova".
The only things that I can think of is colliding a neutron star at it, or do something similar to what Andromeda does.
At first I thought a massive nuclear/antimatter explosion would work, but that would need to be incredibly huge and it would only result in a subnova at best. I want the main source of the explosion to be from the star itself; I want to accelerate the fusion in the star.
PS Its late I'll add more tomorrow.