Planar Shockwave: Difference between revisions

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[Real Life Comics]]'', when [http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/081024.html Tony's space station explodes]. Given a [[Lampshade Hanging]] in the following strip:

* In ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', which loosely follows the plot of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies, the shockwave bombs from [[Attack of the Clones]] make their [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0294.html appearance]. One player explains that they might work like that because of the inverse square law - by concentrating the force into a ring, more damage is done by the ring. In effect, Jango is sacrificing accuracy for power.

* Appears in an extreme long-distance panel in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', when the F'Sherl-Ganni (Gatekeepers) decide to deliberately detonate the ''t'okjith'' (trans: "very clever, but extremely dangerous thing"; a toroidal singularity trapped in the heart of a star) that was powering one of their ''buuthandi'' (trans: "very expensive thing"; sort of a [[Dyson Sphere]] made up of habitats slung on giant solar sails<ref>which is actually closer to Dyson's original concept than a solid shell</ref>) while under attack from Fleet Admiral Breya Andreyasn's forces, with their cheap wormgate-copy systems producing a ridiculous amount of missiles to force said fleet into the shockwave, with the intention of over-awing the "lesser species" by totally annihilating a multi-national fleet. {{spoiler|[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020820.html The fleet escapes].}} Justified by putting gravity-control devices out in the system's Kuiper Belt to ensure that when it ''does'' blow, rather than the star acting as a giant frag grenade, it rips the fabric of space/time a new one in one particular plane.