The Nightstar Zoo

Sorta? They have universal fabbers and the PTU market was recently flooded with finely diced antique warships.

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Those diced warships are probably to "thank" for the UNS's most recent weapon...which they just fielded in the neighborhood where those shredded warships came from.

Well it's actually too late for that. Osiri is something like 20 times the size of the death star and fully capable of being used as a weapon. The galactic core is many times bigger than that and has been used as a weapon. Shoot the galactic core can be used to move the whole galaxy so it's even technically mobile.

Then you've got things like the Allstar, the crushed world forge, and Eina-Afa which may or may not be weapons but are certainly on that scale. Sure the current galactic civilization can't build to that scale economically, but that's only for now. The Cloak of Untrammeled Dignity and the Galactic Core are recent and prove that they have the technology if they wanted to. And Petey is building a new world forge that probably will bring them into line with economic viability.

Shoot if they ever want to really win the war against the Pa'nuri they're probably going to be forced to build at least a few super weapons just to even the odds.

Exactly. But I bet there are few more battlepyramids floating around out there.

But a Peace Moon? No, that's way too big without a world forge and the only one we've seen so far was broken.

Agreed; this conforms to me favorite John Hurt quote from the movie Contact:

I wouldn't take your bet for all the nickels in Jupiter.

Meanwhile, we may not have a world forge yet, but my recollection of the purpose of the Jumpstar Prime (formerly Jupstart Primer) was to rebuild galactic industry to pre-extinction levels by building another world forge. There are just a couple of pesky details to work out, like the ethics of a plan to create then enslave dark matter entities as the core components of such a forge...

Come to think of it, though, I'm having a fridge moment. Petey has shown himself fully capable of building giant, high-quality annie plants; since the Oafans are on good diplomatic terms with the psychobear why not trade hullmetal for annies with him? I'm sure an extortionator class plant would do better than the trio you'd get from a tricorn.

I may have to go on another archive binge to sort this out...

Economics existed in the Star Wars universe too; didn't stop the Empire from building not one, but TWO Death Stars, the second one bigger than the first. Also didn't stop a remnant of the Empire from turning a large chunk of planet into a weapon able to destroy other planets from light-years away. And then there are all those Star Destroyers, Super Star Destroyers and other miles-long warships the various factions loved building...

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Cloak probably qualifies: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-06-20

And let's not forget that this is the universe where things like the All-Star and Eina-Afa exist. With the right know how, very large things are certainly possible.

That was not the purpose of Jumpstar prime.


And that's probably why Petey does not have a World Forge. Also he might not have had time to build one.

The problem with building a "peace moon" or "death star" is that it would be vulnerable to long gun fire now.

Or, you know, a couple of Z-class fighters with some practice in bulls-eye shooting.

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Para and Petey need to have some dialog together. Just because.

Problems with building such structures aside, it's still worth noting that such things are clearly so far beyond the normal range of Q that the difference between them and the rest of Q would be greater than the difference between anything else normally on the table. If someone is fielding a Peace Moon, such an object would barely register the distinction between a Battleplate and a Schlock in a Spacesuit.

You really want me to go on an archive binge, doncha?

I double-checked, and you're right that Jumpstar wasn't intended to build a world forge, it's there to build crypt spiders. The point of those crypt spiders, though, is to find how to make world forges using the information stored on mind-foils of the dead Oafans.

Given the current information we have on the fate of those Oafans, I wonder how much longer the toughs or the rest of their society will continue entertaining the idea of rebuilding/restarting those forges and just go digital instead.

Like I said, anything much bigger than a Q class is probably better designated a space station, Orbital Habitat, or Artificial Planetoid than 'spacecraft'.

So Schlock in a spacesuit is the same rating as a battleplate? Sounds about right.

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I hope Para never plays with Tenzy. The result would be terrifying.
Para and Petey need to have some dialog together. Just because.

I think this is the comparison you are looking for.

And I think Schlock could probably take on a DAME, if he had his plasgun and no anne plant.

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I hope Para never plays with Tenzy. The result would be terrifying.
Para and Petey need to have some dialog together. Just because.