Your Home Became a Mine

This type of projectile is further divided into two categories: one is Conventional Kinetic Energy Shell, and the other is Warp Antimatter projectile equipped with Warp Engine.

The two differ in their initial launch velocity and have different uses.

Cannonballs equipped with Warp Engine generally have a relatively slow initial velocity, reaching only about 90% of the speed of light. It's not that they can't increase the launch velocity, but to achieve a higher velocity, a larger acceleration field must be applied inside the cannon barrel. A larger acceleration field leads to greater acceleration and inertial force. Excessive acceleration may cause the Antimatter stored in the Gravity Well to break through the Gravity Well's restraint due to its stationary inertia and collide with the matter behind it, thus triggering Antimatter annihilation and causing the barrel to explode.

There are two ways to avoid this situation: one is to improve the technology of Gravity Well, and the other is to slightly reduce the force of acceleration by the force field. The first cannot be accomplished overnight, so humanity can only choose the second option.

For this reason, Warp Engine -equipped projectiles are not suitable for bombing planets. Their main purpose is in battles between warships, where they use the faster-than-light characteristics of Warp propulsion combined with their kinetic energy impact and Antimatter annihilation power to strike target warships.

It can be considered a faster-than-light weapon.

The other type of planet-destroying mode is the one that humanity has initiated now.

In this mode, the projectile equipped with Antimatter Warhead is first propelled into the launch field of the Planet Destroyer Cannon, where a force field confinement device made using Gravity Potential Well Technology is also present. The projectile then releases its own confinement field, and the Planet Destroyer Cannon's own force field then confines the Antimatter warhead. The next step is to remove the "shell," which was originally intended to store the Antimatter, from the confinement field, leaving the Antimatter in the launch field within the cannon barrel.

Finally, the various acceleration components of the Planet Destroyer Cannon violently accelerate the Antimatter projectiles. After being accelerated for more than 140 kilometers, the Antimatter projectiles are fired from the muzzle at Sub-Light Speed and blast towards the target with super kinetic energy.

From the perspective of kinetic destructive power alone, the launched projectile is at most a more powerful version of Electromagnetic Railgun. However, its power is not only kinetic energy, but also includes the powerful energy released by the annihilation of Antimatter itself.

The reason why the Planet Destroyer Cannon can destroy planets is that it combines these two forces, making them have a devastating power greater than the sum of its parts.

The firing mode of the Planet Destroyer Cannon is not suitable for fighting enemy warships at a distance, but it is very effective against targets such as Space Fortress, planets, and asteroids.

Using Antimatter as projectiles is certainly dangerous, since Antimatter will annihilate matter upon contact. Therefore, when designing this cannon, humans added layers of protection to prevent a barrel explosion that could lead to the entire ship exploding.

Of course, the Planet Destroyer Cannon can also use conventional materials as projectiles, but then the Planet Destroyer Cannon would become a kinetic energy weapon that only causes damage through kinetic energy impact. So, in general, there are three modes, but the conventional projectile mode is not used much.

It can be considered a multi-purpose weapon.

The Planet Destroyer Cannon can destroy stars, but it can do more than just destroy stars.

However, this is the first time that humanity has truly witnessed the power of Planet Destroyer Cannon.

The moment the countdown Zeroing, the Antimatter projectile, which was bound by the force field, was instantly fired into the acceleration field. Then, under the powerful supply of Antimatter annihilation energy, the various acceleration components of the Planet Destroyer Cannon burst out with powerful field acceleration thrust, suddenly accelerating the projectile from a relatively stationary state.

Accelerated by the unparalleled force field, the cannonball was launched from the barrel in the blink of an eye, speeding along like a streak of light cutting through the darkness, heading towards a planet Astronomical Unit away.

During the acceleration of the Antimatter projectiles, even though various anti-shock systems and the warship's own tailpipe propulsion device had been activated in advance, the people on board the warship could still feel the massive warship shaking backward.

The fact that a warship the size of an island could cause such a commotion speaks volumes about the immense power of the Planet Destroyer Cannon.

Forces are reciprocal; if this were applied to other warships, they would surely fall apart. Only the Lyra, a warship built with a framework of Strong Material, has remained unscathed.

Amidst the intense anticipation of the world, the result of this shot was seen by humans more than nine minutes later.

The time is the time it takes for the projectile to travel through space towards the planet. Because humans placed probes near the target planet's orbit in advance, and these probes were equipped with Tachyon Communication modules, the time it takes for the information to return to the Lyra can be ignored.

This can be considered as humanity seeing an event Beyond the Light Cone in the Great Universe.

The near-light speed greatly increased the dynamic mass of the Antimatter projectile. Upon impact with a planet, it was no longer a light, floaty projectile, but rather a small asteroid with immense force. The powerful impact shattered the target planet's crust, sending a massive cloud of dust and debris billowing into space across the entire globe in an instant.

At the very moment of contact, the extremely high-kinetic-energy Antimatter annihilated the planet's own matter, instantly converting 100% of its mass into energy. At that moment, light, heat, and shockwave became physical terms describing the point of impact, and a violent shockwave and burst of energy erupted instantly.

At that moment, in the slow-motion footage, people saw winding cracks appear on the surface of the planet Naroda, spreading outwards from the point of impact, before the entire planet shattered in the subsequent unparalleled burst of energy.

At this moment, countless dust particles transformed into Mass Ejection, shooting out into space.

Behind the burst of light and heat, the planet exploded in space like a pile of cow dung stuffed with firecrackers. Smaller fragments, propelled by the powerful force, detached from their original orbits and flew about aimlessly, while larger fragments separated at a slower pace and continued to drift in their original orbits, bound by the Gravity of distant stars.

If humanity doesn't engage in mining in the future, these fragments will eventually become Asteroid Belt of this Binary Star System. Alternatively, some fragments may be captured by the Gravity other planets after billions of years of collisions, becoming comets, satellites of other planets, or insignificant meteorites that fall into stars.

Humanity has dismembered a planet in the most explosive way, turning it into a space mine that is easy to exploit.