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  Shadow Planet Killer
The planet killer was scanned by a probe sent inside the cloud by a Whitestar commanded by a man named Ericsson.
The planet killer causes the target planet's core to decrease in temperature, the atmosphere to become poisonous to humanoid life, and filled with particulate matter due to volcanic eruptions.
Daltron 7 was attacked by the planet killer, and scanned by the Excalibur shortly afterward.
www.babtech-onthe.net /shadows/spk.html   (1018 words)

  
  Planet killer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In science fiction, a planet killer (also called a "planet buster" in some Sci-Fi circles) is an entity, often a large spaceship, expressly designed to destroy or render uninhabitable a planet.
The most famous planet killer is the Death Star from the Star Wars franchise, though many others have been seen on film or print.
Science-fiction writers have devised many methods of destroying a planet; blasting it with a specially designed laser weapon, launching nuclear missiles at the surface until the radiation and heat sterilises the planet, or through the use of exotic energy weapons not covered by present-day physics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Planet_killer   (1525 words)

  
 Doomsday machine - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
Orbiting the fourth planet was the doomsday machine, firing a beam of pure antiprotons at the planet and consuming the planet's rubble as fuel.
It should be noted that due to the presence of the seemingly impenetrable neutronium hull, the hulk (or "corpse") of the planet killer was left intact, floating lifelessly in space.
In this novel, it was hypothesized that the planet killer was an ancient race's (perhaps the Preservers) last resort weapon against the Borg.
memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Doomsday_machine   (1477 words)

  
 Planet (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Planet (locomotive), operated by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Planet killer, in science fiction, an entity designed to destroy a planet
Out of the Silent Planet, a song off the album Brave New World by music group Iron Maiden.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Planet_(disambiguation)   (194 words)

  
 Planet Killer - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
The Planet Killer being guarded by B2 super battle droids.
The Planet Killer was a large spherical weapon designed to destroy the planet it was detonated upon.
When the planet failed to explode, Dooku had the scientist taken away, and decided to continue development of the Ultimate Weapon.
starwars.wikia.com /wiki/Planet_Killer   (130 words)

  
 Vorlon Planet Killer Cannon
Although the Planet killer was "alive" and had an intelligence similar to that of a sentient AI it needed a crew to perform its mission.
Against planets the weapon is horribly effective: The gravity wave it fires is capable of disrupting the core of a Earth sized planet and breaking it up into a asteroid belt.
The Planet Killer would be very hard to detect on either races sensors and they would have penalties of -4 to strike beyond visual range and no penalties to strike at visual ranges.
www.kitsune.addr.com /SF-Conversions/Rifts-B5-Ships/Vorlon_PK.htm   (2628 words)

  
 GameSpy: Killer 7
Killer 7 (05/04/05) - The rumor has it that this guy is a bit violent...
Killer 7 (04/19/05) - Here are some new movies for you to enjoy, though they're a bit on the violent side, so you may want to hide the kids...
Killer 7 (03/17/04) - Capcom veers away from zombies and street fighters to take a stab at the psycho-analytical world of a serial killer with multiple personalities.
cube.gamespy.com /gamecube/killer-7   (473 words)

  
 Warhammer 40,000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Planet Killer will move onto the table from the Chaos player's table edge during their first turn.
The Planet Killer can use it's Armageddon Gun normally during the battle, but will eventually have to overcharge it to win the game.
Also, during this time the Planet Killer can not fire any weapons, all it can do is move.
us.games-workshop.com /games/40k/eyeofterror/scenarios/BFGweek8.htm   (541 words)

  
 Vorlon Planet Killer
In this image, the planet killer is 30 pixels wide and 33 pixels long, counting the weapon on the front.
Ivanova is surprised that all of the inhabitants of the planet attacked by the Shadow Planet Killer are dead.
The Planet Killer in orbit begins to fire in the first part of this clip, and some 48 seconds later, the one in the atmosphere begins to leave for Coriana 6.
www.babtech-onthe.net /vorlons/vpk.html   (4662 words)

  
 Killer Whale - Orcinus orca - Pictures - Teeth Diet and Gestation Period
Male Killer Whales are larger then the female of the species and can be distinguished easily by the shape of the whales dorsal fin.
Killer Whale Weight is variable and fluctuates from individual to individual.
Killer Whale Teeth along with Sperm Whale Teeth were among the favorites of Scrimshaw Artists on the whaling ships.
www.tigerhomes.org /animal/killer-whale.cfm   (817 words)

  
 CBUB Fights: Species 8742 vs. The Shadows
Shadows also have their planet killers, fore-see-able problem here, one of those missiles could take down a Bioship or four with ease, but they'd have to hit the small and manuverable ships first.
The shadow planet killer is a vast swarm of megatonne bombs that also lowers all matter within it to absolute zero energy.
Fleets can be trapped within a shadow planet killer and deep frozen (8472 ship on a stick anyone) At the end there will be the occasional wreckage of a bio ship as wave after wave of dark forms eclipse the stars.
www.electricferret.com /fights/alienanarchy.htm   (4817 words)

  
 Babylon 5 - Vorlon Planet Killer WADDA SHIP - all Actors and Episodes - ...
The Planet Killer is heavily defended by battle ships and fighters.
Marcus when he said that he and Lyta saw that some Vorlon ships were "four of five miles across", that he meant the Planet Killers.
The Vorlon Planet Killer is as big as the Death Star.
www.netmoon.com /babylon5/ships/vorlon.htm   (253 words)

  
 U.S.S. Constellation (NCC-1017): Known History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Crew is evacuated to the surface of the third planet in system L-374.
He escapes on a shuttle in a failed attempt to destroy the planet killer.
In the explosion, the planet killer is shut down.
users.stargate.net /~bobafett/starfleet/starhist.html   (179 words)

  
 The Nitpickers Site: Television Nitpick - Star Trek: The Doomsday Machine
To require "chowing down" on a planet, the Planet Killer must itself be huge, at least comparably visible to an entire planet.
Also, in the scenes where Matt Decker takes the shuttlecraft on a "kamikaze" run down the Planet Killer's maw, it's shown to be about the same size as the Constellation when it but several minutes later itself enters the machine.
Since a planet is inanimate and so can't escape and can't fight back, the situation here is like the cat and the cow rather than the lion and the zebra.
www.nitpickers.com /tv/nitpick.cgi?np=3012   (319 words)

  
 Species 8472 planet killer - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
The Species 8472 planet killer was a weapon used by Species 8472 to destroy planets.
A devastatingly powerful weapon, Species 8472 used it with extremely potent results against planets that has been assimilated by the Borg in their campaign to exterminate them.
In a battle that occurred in the region of Borg space which the Borg designated Matrix 010, Grid 19, eight planets fell to it.
www.memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Species_8472_planet_killer   (228 words)

  
 Star Wars vs Star Trek Essays: Planet Killers
Moreover, realistic crater depth estimates are limited by the thickness of the planet's crust (~40 km average for Earth) and the fact that Sheridan saw solid craters rather than gaping volcanic holes in the crust of Daltron 7.
The Doomsday Machine cuts up planets for fuel, but it is unknown how long this process takes, or how much of the planet's mass is actually processed, as opposed to being cast away to drift in space (the iron which makes up most of a typical planet's mass is probably not that useful).
However, the Doomsday Machine requires the ability to disintegrate a planet into a floating debris field at the very least, which in turn requires the ability to overcome gravitational potential energy (otherwise the planet would still be intact).
www.stardestroyer.net /Empire/Essays/Planet-Killers.html   (7356 words)

  
 History
Spectrographics indicated that the second planet’s iron deposits were enormous and a slight atmosphere could even support life in the lowest regions of the surface.
Although the Confederated Planets were at peace, the communities were suffering from the melting pot of cultures and races that were stranded together.
It is an M-Forming (as in Class-M Planet such as the Earth) process that could take another twenty years and will eventually result in an atmosphere suitable for attempts at planting vegetation and even attempting to create a small sea on the surface.
homepage.mac.com /cheethorne/hosted/mechanimorphs/history.htm   (3348 words)

  
 Shadow Death Cloud: Babylon 5 Tech-Manual.
Unlike the Volron Planet Killer, which used a massive energy bolt to blow a planet to kingdom come, the Shadows take a much more conservative approach to destroying a planet.
Once a planet has been strip-mined of all useful matterials, it is left little more than a ball of molten rock in space.
When a Shadow Death Cloud leaves a planet, that planet is left as little more than a cold dead boulder in space, all organic life, in any form having been devoured and with no chance of life ever springing up on that world again.
www.b5tech.com /shadows/shadowships/shadowcloud.html   (539 words)

  
 Geocide in fiction @ Things Of Interest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The complete destruction of rocky planets, gas giants, stars and frequently entire universes is a concept which dates back hundreds of years and has appeared in every significant medium.
Any the many Green Lanterns would be capable of destroying a planet with just his or her power ring: Kyle Rayner is on record as having destroyed the planet Oa by exactly this method.
The planet Xanshi was destroyed when a force known as Anti-Life placed a yellow bomb on its surface whose explosion was powerful enough to hurl it into its sun, so this probably could work on Earth.
www.qntm.org /fictional   (3197 words)

  
 Killer Whale -- Kids' Planet -- Defenders of Wildlife
The orca, or "killer," whale is the largest member of the dolphin family.
Orcas have long, rounded bodies with large dorsal fins at the middle of their backs.
Appendix II species can be traded commercially only if it does not harm their survival.
www.kidsplanet.org /factsheets/orca.html   (374 words)

  
 Chaos Ships
Note that as the Planet Killer also has torpedoes, it is possible that you will need to use Reload Ordnance orders for these at the same time for the Armageddon Gun.
In this case, only make one Command check but apply the roll equally to both weapons systems (eg of you roll a double six, then the Planet Killer suffers an automatic critical and will also be out of the torpedoes for the remainder of the game).
The Planet Killer does not lose any of it’s weapons for being an exterminator, but if the Armageddon Gun cannot be used for any reason, then it can no longer act as an exterminator and the Chaos player loses the battle automatically.
www.gothicwar.ukf.net /chaos.htm   (937 words)

  
 Wired 14.02: Alien Animal Planet
On Aurelia, an Earth-sized planet half shrouded in perpetual darkness, vast floodplains give way to groves of treelike stinger fans that use ambulatory roots to creep across the muddy surface.
The first is a planet orbiting a sun close enough to keep water from freezing out, yet far enough away to avoid evaporation.
Aurelia is a hypothetical planet that orbits a red dwarf star.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/14.02/alien.html   (1136 words)

  
 8472 Planet Killer
Notes: The Species 8472 planet killer is composed of eight bioships that focus their main energy weapon through a reconfigured central bioship.
The resulting energy beam is capabible of destroying a planet in seconds.
The U.S.S. Voyager witnessed one Borg planet being destroyed during the war between Species 8472 and the Borg.
www.st-intelligence.com /ship_database/fed/p8472.php   (60 words)

  
 Kerry Fox Live! » ‘Planet Killer’ Not in the Stars, Asteroid Research Indicates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The chairman of this week’s Planetary Defense Conference, William Ailor of the Aerospace Corp., a nonprofit established by Congress to support the Air Force’s space defense program, said scientists generally agree that the risk to Earth from large asteroids is small.
Researchers have identified more than 700 of these potential “planet killers” — out of an estimated 1,000 — and found that not one is on a collision course with Earth.
The Myan’s new it five thousand years ago, April 2012 is their prediction and they were much smarter than we are, even if they did have human sacrifice’s…If we don’t stop worrying about war and start about the air,sea,land and solar system our children won’t even have a chance to pay for todays mistakes.
kerryfoxlive.com /wordpress/?p=7040   (1271 words)

  
 Relic Forums - Homeworld2: Descent Into Chaos
Dwarfing the missiles were the Planet Killers, starfish shaped ancient vessels that Makaan had dug up from who knows where, gigantic and terrifying to behold.
It had come from a planet somewhere in the eastern fringe of the galaxy, and the more she thought about it, the more she was convinced it came from somewhere near Kharak.
Stigma 17 had been the first planet that the Taiidan, in their stupidity, had tested the Atmosphere Deprivation Weapon on, burning the once lush and verdant planet to a crisp.
forums.relicnews.com /showthread.php?t=71973   (5481 words)

  
 Vorlon Planet Killer: Babylon 5 Tech-Manual.
One of the most terrifying weapons in galactic history, the Vorlon Planet Killer was not seen until the latter stages of the Shadow War.
The Planet Killer was apparently the largest and most powerful vessel in the Vorlon fleet, possessing enough fire power to destroy an entire planet.
In its brief use near the end of the Shadow War, this class of vessel was responsible for the destruction of dozens of worlds and nearly destroyed the Centauri home world.
www.b5tech.com /vorlon/vorlonships/vorlonplanetkiller.html   (324 words)

  
 Beast Planet vs. TOS Planet Killer [Archive] - SpaceBattles.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It is rumored that the Beast Planet's crust has the density of a million fl holes, and has survive a direct assualt by all 5 Battlemoon's, planet Fire slamming into it at full speed, and the jungle planet exploding inside of it.
Once the Beast Planet breaches a planet’s atmosphere the World Claw reaches out draws the helpless planet into the Beast, where is savagely pulled apart and converted to null matter, sucked into the void, or spit out as a dead planet where evil reigns.
Because, due to the extreme density, the beast planet would be supermassive, have super-gravity, and, well, be a fl hole in and of itself.
kier.3dfrontier.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-8795.html   (861 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: planet
planet pluto earth uranus mars moon alien neptune saturn venus solar system sun jupiter large mercury space world american animals ass asteroid astronomer astronomy binary captain planet charon cool death disney dwarf green hi huge joke nigga qualculus sex sol sorry star stupid
Secondary planets are some times called minor planets, but minor planets also include planets that does not orbit other planets.
Pluto's status as a major or minor planet is debated.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=planet   (273 words)

  
 Ex Astris Scientia - Ancient or Mysterious Ships
However, a serious objection is that a race able to build a Dyson biosphere would actually not need one and a less advanced civilization with the necessary knowledge would not give up their planets, everything that makes up their history.
Its antiproton beam was powerful enough to destroy whole planets whose rubble it could use as fuel.
We gave the new planet killer a texture reminiscent of hammered titanium and solid lava, trying to indicate that the surface of the machine had been pounded by untold arsenals over the aeons." All light effects like the reactor inside, the weapon beams and the exhaust of the dying machine were even more noticebly upgraded.
www.ex-astris-scientia.org /schematics/ancient_ships.htm   (1119 words)

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