Asteroid Impact
This is not a power that destroys stars, but a power that destroys the world.
Because of the successful strategy of Planet Thirteen, humanity does not need to mine resources on this planet for the time being, so this Orbital Bombardment can be described as unbridled.
Countless large-caliber Electromagnetic Railgun shot out from their muzzles, then, aided by the planet's Gravity, exceeded their original speed limits. Following this, due to the conservation of angular momentum, these projectiles traced arcs across the planet's sky before plunging headlong into their target locations.
The kinetic energy of the shell itself, combined with the acceleration due to Gravity, gives each shell a power exceeding that of a high-yield hydrogen bomb when it hits the ground.
Not long after, the original ground could no longer be seen from space using optical telescopes. This was because the bombardment by three million warships was too frequent; countless Electromagnetic Railgun shells and invisible laser energy beams, like rain from the sky, were constantly ravaging the surface of this planet.
Those land-based turrets with Magnetic Shield and Polarization Shield were bombarded by such dense fire, their Polarization Shield were directly blasted apart, and then turned into molten lava under the irradiation of hundreds or thousands of laser energy beams.
As the bombing continued, dust from the ground even reached Low Earth Orbit.
At this point, the scene of Laser Weapon firing, as people usually imagine, appears. Tiny dust particles scatter light, so once the dust spreads into the Earth's orbit, the traces of Laser Weapon fired downwards from above become visible.
For a moment, the scene seemed to be a picture of lightsabers crisscrossing and beams of light intersecting. In a daze, the surface of this planet seemed to have become a dance hall, and the beams of light shot by humans seemed to be the colorful spectacle in that dance hall. At this moment, the world was like a silent symphony.
However, in this 'dance hall', there were no graceful dancers' skirts, nor any charming and beautiful figures; there was only endless flying of earth and stones, endless splashing of lava, and endless rising of mushroom clouds.
After several rounds of Orbital Bombardment, the planet's surface resistance weakened considerably, with only a few Laser Weapon, whose traces had been observed, occasionally still piercing into space. All visible structures on the ground had been completely destroyed by humans—factories, resource extraction sites, and even settlements clearly belonging to those involved in Interstellar Transaction Market —all were razed to the ground by repeated bombardments.
Without a doubt, in terms of lethality, Orbital Bombardment is always more efficient than amphibious landing operations, but unfortunately, humanity lacks the concept of amphibious landing operations.
In fact, the Interstellar Transaction Market has prepared ground defense forces on this planet. They have even equipped their soldiers with extremely good individual combat equipment, such as defensive mechs, individual combat Energy Weapon, and have developed many tactics suitable for ground offensive and defensive warfare.
These troops were originally stationed at various strongholds and bases, but they did not expect that the humans had no intention of launching a landing operation and instead carried out indiscriminate bombing from orbit.
Thus, all these preparations became cannon fodder under the Orbital Bombardment. Faced with this devastating force, they all died without firing a single shot.
But that wasn't all. To prevent any remaining deep Underground Base from escaping, the Strong Artificial Intelligence on the Lyra, under Yue Yuan's orders, deployed a group of thrusters equipped with Intelligent Program to carry out another bombing mission.
During the large-scale Orbital Bombardment, Yue Yuan noticed the orbital situation near this planet. Through the probe, he discovered that there were some asteroids drifting in space.
Then an idea popped into his head: it was obvious that Yue Yuan wanted to push one or more of these asteroids of suitable mass onto the Twelfth Planet.
The idea of propelling asteroids was just a thought in Earth Era, but now that humanity is Level 3 Civilization, powerful Magnetic Propulsion Technology has made this once only a dream a reality.
Thus, under Yue Yuan's instruction, the Strong Artificial Intelligence allocated a portion of its computing power and dispatched a group of thrusters to an asteroid near its orbit, initiating the asteroid-planet collision mission.
There are about three suitable asteroids in the vicinity, one about 5 kilometers in diameter, one about 9 kilometers in diameter, and the last one about 11 kilometers in diameter.
At first glance, the smallest asteroid may not seem very big, after all, the Lyra is five kilometers long. However, the asteroid is a solid object, unlike the Lyra which has internal space.
Therefore, its mass is much larger than that of the Lyra, but propelling it is not a difficult task for humans. Even with that asteroid with a diameter of eleven kilometers, it would simply require humans to send more thrusters there.
When these three asteroids were pushed from outer space onto the planet by humans, the remaining people in the Underground Base knew they were really in for a world of hurt.
Propelling Asteroid Impact planet requires precise targeting, a highly technical task that cannot be accomplished without extensive Orbital Bombardment technology. Fortunately, after previous bombardment experiments and now in-depth practical application, humanity has acquired the necessary parameters.
And so people can see this scene.
Three asteroids of different masses were propelled to different orbital altitudes by Magnetic Propulsion installed by humans. Then, to ensure the accuracy of the impact, humans added several more thrusters around the asteroids for fine-tuning their orbits.
Just like that largest asteroid, it has hundreds of thrusters.
Then, after rigorous scientific calculations, the three asteroids began to orbit the planet from their respective orbits, and then lowered their orbits at the appropriate time, eventually drawing a bright, visible arc over the planet before falling downwards.
At that moment, it was as if three blazing suns appeared in the sky above the planet, their intense light illuminating the entire planet as if it were daytime.
It's true that the Twelfth Planet has no atmosphere, but the dust that was previously blown up by humans did not settle down. Therefore, after the three asteroids collided with them, a magnificent and apocalyptic scene appeared.
After three enormous mushroom clouds rose, the earth cracked again, and the crust trembled once more. The planet's core, which had begun to dormant, was awakened by the impact of these three asteroids, unleashing the power contained within it.
As a result, cracks appeared in the mantle beneath the crust, and the hot magma from the uncooled outer core surged upwards through these cracks. Soon after, red streaks appeared on the earth, like red snakes extending there.
These winding red snakes converged in one place, and then the volcanoes on the planet's surface, which had been dormant for tens or hundreds of thousands of years, came back to life.