Planet Buster

{{ShipTool| Tool={{PAGENAME}}| ToolType=Weapons| Game_Description=Destroys an entire planet. Feared by all. BIG BADDA BOOM| Full_Description=The Planet Buster is the ultimate destructive force in weapon technology. It is capable of not only destroying the planet fired on, but also any nearby moons. Although the exact process of this is unknown, due to the use of a relatively small bomb and the even shock wave, it is safe to assume that it functions as an antimatter weapon that travels to the planet's core and sets off an explosion powerful enough to rip the outer layers of the planet apart. In addition, when fired the Planet Buster resembles the Anti-Matter Missile and Anti-Matter Bomb.

After its destruction, the planet slowly disintegrates, preventing the molten mantle from cooling and forming into a new planet. It is speculated that this works by destroying the crust of the planet and dispersing the core and mantle.

Details
Damage: Permanently destroys planet and orbiting moons.

Other Notes:
 * Breaks the Galactic Code.
 * Cannot be used on your home planet unless you have a mod.
 * Planets destroyed this way cannot be repaired. It will only be a floating ball of lava. The next time you return there will be nothing left, as if it was never there.
 * Destroying twenty planets gives you the Quietus Star Achievement.
 * Using on Earth in the Sol System will grant you the Oh the Humanity! Achievement.
 * If used on the only planet in a star system, the spacecraft will simply fly over the star. The spacecraft cannot land, and will be repelled, as though the star is a gas giant. However, the player can zoom in close to that star.
 * Usually, when you use this tool, a nearby empire will instantly declare war on you.
 * This tool requires purchased ammunition.

thumb|398px|right|A video showing the destruction of a planet.

"Testing"
Breaking the Galactic Code only makes local empires that are at a maximum of 10pc from the epicenter angry, possibly to the point where they start a war. If you want to "test" the weapon, do it far away from your neighborhood in other part of the galaxy (beware of nearby empires; they may get angry). Or, if you wish to ally the Grox, perform it on a planet near one of their systems for a +10 relationship boost. You can do this a maximum of 5 times for a maximum boost of 50 relationship points.



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Trivia

 * The Planet Buster was actually the name of a weapon in Insomniac Games' Ratchet & Clank (1). It was created by Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek to be used to destroy a planet. It was also a missile, though it was called the Planet Buster Maximus.
 * Before that, it was the name of a powerful weapon in the Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri computer game.
 * This could be the Spore counterpart of the Death Star from Star Wars.
 * The phrase "BIG BADDA BOOM" is from the 1997 sci-fi film, The Fifth Element.
 * A device similar to the planet buster was used in the most recent Star Trek film called "red matter," which is used to create a black hole, not caused by a missile or a bomb.