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Pdhtn wrote:

Just think about it though. All you'd need to do to kill a planet's population is to gather together a number of starships which could have multiple warp cores each, for power. Teleport the first couple of layers of atmosphere off the planet, and everyone on the planet is screwed. Alternatively, you could teleport a couple tons of antimatter into the planet's core and watch the fireworks.

... I think you have a bit of issue with your scaling and the limitations of transporters. A couple miles of granite is enough to ensure a transporter won't work under most conditions and a lot of heavy metals can interfere. Plus even if you could beam in the antimatter, the amount you'd need would be MASSIVE. An ounce of antimatter annihilating an once of matter yields only about a megaton of force. You'd need to be in the teratons minimum to blow up a planet.

As for the 'beam away the atmosphere', it's just not that effective in terms of energy use verse just bombing the planets. In 'A Call to Arms', a joint Romulan Tal-Shiar and Cardassian Obsidian Order task for of seventeen ships were ably to destroy 30% of a planets crust on the opening volley.

((Sorry to be a buzzkill, but someone has to do it.))