Fiction:The Altzo Confederation

Little was and is known about the Altzo Confederation. They were a peaceful civilization, just coming out of their small little world. They were on their way out to make contact with new civilizations and colonize new worlds. They prospered.

But in the last 17 years of their existence, they had discovered an object moving toward them at 80% the speed of light and rising. It was an entire world. Small clusters of the citizens emigrated to other empires while the government armed itself against the coming threat. Their world was most certainly large enough to survive the impact, but the ecosystem couldn't.

When it arrived, its trajectory was way off. You could almost feel the sigh of relief coming off the nation. Then suddenly, the world slowed down. It changed course for them. Citizens screamed in terror, while the government tried to reassure them that they could handle it.

Every Planet Buster on the planet was fired at the incoming world. There was an explosion and it was engulfed in "flames".