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If entire wars are fought this way, you can take it as the most extreme aversion of [[Old School Dogfighting]].

 

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* Arguably, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_<!-- 28Saberhagen29 Berserkers]]. -->

* [[Alan Dean Foster]] is fond of this trope, most prominently in his ''[[Humanx Commonwealth]]'' series, which features a wide assortment of [[Lost Superweapon|Lost Superweapons]] left scattered around the cosmos by various [[Precursors]]. The two greatest examples show up in the [[Grand Finale]], ''Flinx Transcendent'', and include a weapons platform whose [[Wave Motion Gun]] fires through [[Subspace or Hyperspace|subspace]] across galaxies, and an even bigger superweapon whose power source ''is'' a galaxy (indeed, multiple galaxies).

* [[Charles Stross]]' [[Iron Sunrise]] features guided, ramscoop-powered missiles designed to deter interplanetary invasions. If a planet is attacked, the missiles accelerate up to lightspeed and (eventually) hit the invaders' home planet.

* Colin Kapp wrote at least two of these. In ''Patterns of Chaos'', a technique for predicting the future let aliens in the Andromeda Galaxy ''seven hundred million years ago'' send sublight missiles at spots in our galaxy a few centuries from now with pinpoint accuracy, impacting close enough to the people they wanted to kill that a ''hand grenade'' would've done the job -- but they ''still'' sent [[Earthshattering Kaboom|planet killers]]. And then there was the Chaos Weapon, in the book of the same title, a [[Wave Motion Gun]] kept in another ''universe'', which devoured entire stars for fuel.

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