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== [[Literature]] ==
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Larry Niven]] short story "The Fourth Profession". The Monks are a species of alien traders who travel from star to star. Normally they travel using light sails pushed by launching lasers built by intelligent races in the systems they visit. If there's no intelligent race in a system or the race refuses to build a launching laser for them, they use a device on their ship to make the system's star go nova and use that for propulsion.
* [[Larry Niven]] short story "The Fourth Profession". The Monks are a species of alien traders who travel from star to star. Normally they travel using light sails pushed by launching lasers built by intelligent races in the systems they visit. If there's no intelligent race in a system or the race refuses to build a launching laser for them, they use a device on their ship to make the system's star go nova and use that for propulsion.
* The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Crusher#Sun_Crusher SunCrusher] from the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]].
* The [[wikipedia:Sun Crusher#Sun Crusher|SunCrusher]] from the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]].
* In ''For White Hill'' by Joe Haldeman hostile aliens make Earth's sun go nova. The plot is about making a memorial for Earth.
* In ''For White Hill'' by Joe Haldeman hostile aliens make Earth's sun go nova. The plot is about making a memorial for Earth.
* Because [[Science Marches On]], modern fanfiction for ''[[The Night Land]]'' generally treats the death of the sun in the [[Backstory]] as artificial instead of natural.
* Because [[Science Marches On]], modern fanfiction for ''[[The Night Land]]'' generally treats the death of the sun in the [[Backstory]] as artificial instead of natural.
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* The Ascendants in the ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]]'' have a weapon capable of destroying stars, as seen in ''Worlds of Deep Space Nine: The Dominion''.
* The Ascendants in the ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]]'' have a weapon capable of destroying stars, as seen in ''Worlds of Deep Space Nine: The Dominion''.
* An appendix to Iain M. Banks' ''[[The Culture/Consider Phlebas|Consider Phlebas]]'' summarises the vast interstellar war the novel was set in, with a casual mention that among the tally of destruction was six stars. In a later book, we learn that one of them harboured an inhabited planet.
* An appendix to Iain M. Banks' ''[[The Culture/Consider Phlebas|Consider Phlebas]]'' summarises the vast interstellar war the novel was set in, with a casual mention that among the tally of destruction was six stars. In a later book, we learn that one of them harboured an inhabited planet.
* The titular "iron-bombing" of Moscow's star in ''[[The Eschaton Series|Iron Sunrise]]'' by [[Charles Stross]]. Not an "iron bomb" [[Air Launched Weapons|in the USAF sense of the word]], the process involves sending the target star's core into a [[Pocket Dimension]] [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|with a vastly accelerated time flow]]. [[Time Abyss|As quintillions of years pass in the mini-universe]], the superheated hydrogen cools and [[Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything|eventually transmutes through quantum tunneling into a solid iron crystal]]. When the now-shrunken core is returned to the center of the star, the outer layers fall toward it, bounce off (iron doesn't like to be fused) and rebound explosively. The entire process [[Shown Their Work|is a fair approximation of what actually occurs in a Type II supernova]] (apart from the pocket dimension, anyway).
* The titular "iron-bombing" of Moscow's star in ''[[The Eschaton Series|Iron Sunrise]]'' by [[Charles Stross]]. Not an "iron bomb" [[Air-Launched Weapons|in the USAF sense of the word]], the process involves sending the target star's core into a [[Pocket Dimension]] [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|with a vastly accelerated time flow]]. [[Time Abyss|As quintillions of years pass in the mini-universe]], the superheated hydrogen cools and [[Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything|eventually transmutes through quantum tunneling into a solid iron crystal]]. When the now-shrunken core is returned to the center of the star, the outer layers fall toward it, bounce off (iron doesn't like to be fused) and rebound explosively. The entire process [[Shown Their Work|is a fair approximation of what actually occurs in a Type II supernova]] (apart from the pocket dimension, anyway).
* In the final Lensman novel of [[EE Doc Smith]], "Children of the Lens", the sun of the Ploor system is destroyed by firing a planet from another universe whose intrinsic velocity is always faster than light into the star.
* In the final Lensman novel of [[EE Doc Smith]], "Children of the Lens", the sun of the Ploor system is destroyed by firing a planet from another universe whose intrinsic velocity is always faster than light into the star.
* The [[Satan|Lone Power]] of the ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series can both cause a star to suddenly stop radiating light ([[A Wizard Did It|by presumably supernatural means]]), and also cause a star to go nova (by presumably more scientific means). This gives It one of Its [[I Have Many Names|many names]], "Star Snuffer".
* The [[Satan|Lone Power]] of the ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series can both cause a star to suddenly stop radiating light ([[A Wizard Did It|by presumably supernatural means]]), and also cause a star to go nova (by presumably more scientific means). This gives It one of Its [[I Have Many Names|many names]], "Star Snuffer".
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* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'' it's implied {{spoiler|that the far future dying of our sun is caused by humanity's enemies.}}
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'' it's implied {{spoiler|that the far future dying of our sun is caused by humanity's enemies.}}
** ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' actually used this trope twice. During the Dilgar War, the [[The Federation|Earth Alliance]] helped the League of Nonaligned Worlds to beat back the Dilgar forces until they had all retreated to their home system. Then the sun went nova. [[Word of God]] says that there was ''no'' '''natural''' reason for their sun to do that when it did.
** ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' actually used this trope twice. During the Dilgar War, the [[The Federation|Earth Alliance]] helped the League of Nonaligned Worlds to beat back the Dilgar forces until they had all retreated to their home system. Then the sun went nova. [[Word of God]] says that there was ''no'' '''natural''' reason for their sun to do that when it did.
* There is the Hand Of Omega, from classic ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' which is a remote stellar manipulator the Time Lords use to tinker with stars to make them do as they wish, in "Remembrance Of The Daleks" the Doctor uses it to {{spoiler|destroy the Skaro solar system}}. In New Who the Doctor uses the energy of a supernova to talk to Rose the first time she got dumped into another dimension, although he doesn't actually say he ''caused'' it.
* There is the Hand Of Omega, from classic ''[[Doctor Who]]'' which is a remote stellar manipulator the Time Lords use to tinker with stars to make them do as they wish, in "Remembrance Of The Daleks" the Doctor uses it to {{spoiler|destroy the Skaro solar system}}. In New Who the Doctor uses the energy of a supernova to talk to Rose the first time she got dumped into another dimension, although he doesn't actually say he ''caused'' it.
* ''[[Stargate SG 1]]''. "[[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun|Remember that time when you blew up a sun?]]" An oft-referred-to incident where the team basically just dropped an open Stargate (connected to some far-off world orbiting a [[Black Hole]]) into a star, causing a fatal instability and immediate supernova, in order to wipe out an incoming armada.
* ''[[Stargate SG 1]]''. "[[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|Remember that time when you blew up a sun?]]" An oft-referred-to incident where the team basically just dropped an open Stargate (connected to some far-off world orbiting a [[Black Hole]]) into a star, causing a fatal instability and immediate supernova, in order to wipe out an incoming armada.
** SG-1 also once poisoned a sun ''accidentally'' when a wormhole's trajectory passed through it and dropped superheavy elements as it passed. They (or the Asgard; they never actually clear that up) manage to fix it by the end of the episode.
** SG-1 also once poisoned a sun ''accidentally'' when a wormhole's trajectory passed through it and dropped superheavy elements as it passed. They (or the Asgard; they never actually clear that up) manage to fix it by the end of the episode.
* In the TV Series ''[[Andromeda]]'', Commonwealth warships had a complement of 40 NovaBombs - missiles designed to destroy a star by cancelling out any gravitational forces, literally, pulling it apart and causing it to explode. In the pilot the Andromeda Ascendant uses up her entire complement canceling out a black hole's gravity.
* In the TV Series ''[[Andromeda]]'', Commonwealth warships had a complement of 40 NovaBombs - missiles designed to destroy a star by cancelling out any gravitational forces, literally, pulling it apart and causing it to explode. In the pilot the Andromeda Ascendant uses up her entire complement canceling out a black hole's gravity.
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