Stellaris: Nicoll-Dyson destroys entire star system 

Sooo, apparently the youtube algorithm did a thing... How in the world did all of you find this video?!?! This was made for some chap on reddit who wanted to see what this looked like. Never expected this... haha Crazy!! Y'all are awesome btw. The comments are great!

POV: You've never played Stellaris but the title was cool.

Now that's what I call a permanent border solution

Palpatine: Write that down! Write that down!

Maxim 37: There is no overkill. There is only "open fire" and "reload". Addendum: If you need a calendar to compute minimum safe distance, there _might_ be "overkill".

“I used the star to destroy the star”

This guy: Destroys his own star system. AI: Yeah, gonna go make some claims, what's the worst that can happen.

So this is where the Stellaris devs got the nemesis dlc from lol

"Burned whole solar systems like they were cauterizing a wound." - James Holden

Wait that destroys the hyperspace lanes?!? Sounds like a good way to stop invading fleets

Hah you predicted the new dlc

Imagine if you stalemated a war and your enemy drops this on your capital system

For the record nicoll and Dyson (yes that guy) came up with the idea idea for this(built out of tin foil sheets attached to a few million satellites) to demonstrate that with current levels of tech(although a lot more anger management issues), a species could build one of these and burn every planet in the galaxy every 10000 years. This demonstrates that either A=genocidal aliens killing off all life is not the the reason there are no signals from space. B=humans are far more omnicidal than any species we share the galaxy with...

Finally, a weapon to surpass metal gear.

played stellaris for a week, every run ends up with end game micromanagement. I really wished the automation actually worked.

I like how it destroys hyperlanes, but the system is still there. so you could make your own little corner of the galaxy that you have to jump in and out of.

“The remaining systems will bow to the first order!!!”

is nobody talking about how many ring worlds this guy has

The idea of firing through a wormhole generator is the Stellaris equivalent to a drone strike

I see. This is what Holden saw in the Expanse

Warhammer 40K Imperium of Man: Exterminatus is the most grimdark thing ever. Nicoll-Dyson beam: Hold my beer.

You used… a Dyson Sphere… As a weapon to ignite and create a supernova… … _I need this game_

Fires gigantic sun laser at an enemy star system. Sees bad guys are called arachnid swarm. Whole new meaning to the term kill it with fire

"See that star over there? Fuck it, and everything in the immediate vicinity."

The funny thing is when you finished building it, it granted to 100 positive diplomatic points toward other empires (Not fallen empires). The reason is "Terrifying hyper-weapon". Sometime in game, I built this thing for diplomatic purposes and destroy the crisis.

They declared war on us. We declared Exterminatus on them.

So basically it uses the mass of the Star to make the other one go over its critical mass and collapse into a supernova, however, the first (blue) star would significantly increase its radius during the mass transfer and its fusion reaction would greatly diminish due to the drop in temperature during the expansion. This means that such a device would probably be destroyed during its operation as it would be engulfed by the star, and also its orbit would change as the mass of the star changes, which implies the star’s gravity will change as well. Tidal forces would be extreme and the structure could collapse due to this as well. Oh, and also, the transfer of mass implies a change in momentum, which means the Star would experience an acceleration due to Newton’s 2nd law, such a large transfer of mass would probably mean a change in the star’s orbit, and a catastrophic change in the orbits of any planets surrounding it, which could render that solar system unstable, and habitable planets in that system not habitable anymore... Yeah it’s kinda cool, let’s do it.

Man, if only the Imperium of Man could have something like this in Warhammer 40k. They’d be able to cause quite a few Xenos star systems to disappear

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Now imagine after the supernova, a black hole forms and starts pulling all the systems closer.

"what the fuck is that" "Oh its just the unmatched power of the sun!"

Almost the same size of the load of a minecraft player who started a carreer in architecture.

Bruh this is the first proper stellaris equivalent to modern day nukes

I learned the hard way that you can't just close the Nicoll-Dyson beam targeting selection window, you have to hit the cancel button or it will just destroy whatever system was at the top of the target list.

Step 1: Destroy solar system Step 2: Jump Drive construction in there and claim solar system Step 3: Build Ring World in said system Step 4: Colonize Step 5: REPEAT

Carl Sagan: - THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT

And we'll remember this, AS THE LAST DAY OF JONDUS!

Well as it turns out you don't need a giant gigastructure enveloping an entire star to destroy a star system all you really need is a big cube

Thank you for reminding me how truly awful the lategame lag is

In space, no one can hear the Geneva Conventions.

thats why i like using the lanes... it creates random choke points which force you to not plan just the next system or empire to engage but to what choke point is available next. so at each of these choke points you end up developing fortress systems...and behind them planets that while not overly developed are usually specialized in ship or economy output.

Xenophobe Fallen Empire: We want a buffer between us. A cold, empty buffer. Me: Your wish is my command.

This is some crazy ass 'Space Pirate Captain Harlock' stuff, Cant wait to see more from the Movie in Stellaris in future DLC's.

who needs cyclonic torpedoes when u have one of these ready and available

Sad part is if we ever figure out how to make Dyson sphere we would likely weaponize it because if you look back at any new technology we have developed people tried to figure out if it could be turn into a weapon.

Dyson vacuums have really progressed. Did it create more or less dirt? Could be a design flaw.

So since there's no command to remove a system, the modder got around by changing star class, reducing "planet" size, and removing all hyperlanes to the system.

Vanilla Megastructures: cringe 1 ringworld and "inhabitable stations" GSC Mega-Kilo-Gigastructures: chad sphere that kills billions of people faster than colossus

This is what the Empire needs not Death Stars

"UNLIMITED... POWER"- zappy fingers/palpatine sometime probably

when you're slightly ahead in Civ game and decide to troll your friend who just got to masonry

I'm loving this lmao I've watched like 5 times, that's quite the intense weapon.

Ah! You just gave me an idea to destroy the Compound! ( the biggest Crisis the game has ever seen, they take no damage from non Dark matter weapons).

I love this game soooo much! I learn something new almost every time I play. However I have yet to destroy any star system. I have a Necroid Magacorp game going on at the moment where this very well could be a possibility for me. End game hasn't been my strong suite.

Other empires: you are causing border friction. Me: can't cause border friction if there is bo border. Other empires: W H A T?

"Did you do it?" "Yes" "What did it cost?" "1000 credits and 2 days"

Literal Death Star

damn bro, those asteroid belts are solid asf.

Coming to EVE Online next summer. Lol, imagine. That would be a pretty interesting character study though. Give players a nuke and an actual way to destroy the game. Will they develop their own version of the Cold War. Or will it be the end of the game? And a poetic end at that.

Reminds me of Spore... you use the planet destroyer? Every empire instantly declares war on you. You use the terraformer to cook a planet into a lava world? No, that's fine!

This looks like a game I could get lost for hours in and I have no idea what's even going on.

Who need Death Star when you have Nicoll-Dyson

0:45 They’ll remember this as the LAST DAY! OF THE REPUBLIC!!!

We will watch your career with great interest

Starkiller base wishes it could be this badass

The power of Super Perfect Cell's Solar Kamehameha!

Imagine a handful of the GRB we detect from millions of light years away were actually weapons like this.

Very nice to see the Celestial Orrery getting some use.

that was a very sad explosion.... was hoping for a bit more lol

You play with gigaenginnering for so long and you forget that it isnt a base part of the game

gracias por la contribución aportando y no restando

the start of the great journey .

Using this you can practically seal off your empire, by destroying systems that create chokepoints with the hyperlanes. You can effectively heavily fortify just a single system, station your fleets there and then create a gate, using it to navigate in and out.

There is a gigstructure using a supermassive black hole, but I once tried using it to destroy a star cluster and crashed my game instead

Those 2 days passed so slow I thought it was paused. This is why I’m never gonna be able to make one of those

Gives the term "Death Star" a whole new meaning.

Next DLC, you can recreate stars and planets from gas...

See this would have been cool in the Star Wars Episode 7

in 2 minutes of a space civ sandbox game, you perfectly encapsulated the entire concept of the dark forest theory.

That makes the Death Star a baby comparison to that.

and the scary part is that this is not even the most powerful 'gun' you can possibly make. theres the gun that you can create, powered by the black hole at the center of the galaxy. i fired that at the captial star system of a rival empire, and it disappeared completely. it immediately triggered other empires to declare war at me.

When a star destroyer becomes more powerful then a Death Star :p See what I did there

It’s strange… whilst I watch that I felt a strange disturbance… as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced…

Literally my first space game ever, was just too young to wrap my brain around it at the time, now there’s star citizen

And that's why you always need a ZPM in Reserve to protect the stargate with a shield. Otherwise the replicators are a Real problem 😉

This is so cool, will it be coming to console edition? It's hard to find stellaris vids with official paradox content only these days all the crazy stuff like this is usually mods

Wait thats a cool idea. I’m gonna steal this for my sci fi setting.

I never knew how to use this structure. That's hella cool.

Kinda feel like this type of weapon could and might actually exist.

Basically Starkiller Base

Reminds of the scene Holden saw on The Expanse.

That’s one way to destroy your enemies’ home planet(s)

Nicol-Dyson, how do you know my Ex-Girlfriend? AM I RITE FELLAS??!?!? Hahahaha *quickly turns into a skeleton in a fashion similar to the nazi at the end of the third Indiana Jones movie*

That's kinda broken. If I hit a few strategic spots then I can just isolate myself from everyone else or vice versa

This person was the nemesis before the Nemesis dlc.

Marvelous! Truly marvelous!!

Is this a mod?

That sure was an unimpressive explosion, I was expecting something spectacular.

Hearts of Iron 4: committing war crimes by encircling and killing hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Stellaris: casually destroying an entire star system and killing billions of civilians living on the planet

i got this recommended again somehow