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* A novel by Barrington J. Bayley included a weapon which worked by eliminating all of the electrons in a star, thereby rendering fusion impossible. A star hit by the weapon would lose 1/1400 of its mass and instantly go out.
* A novel by Barrington J. Bayley included a weapon which worked by eliminating all of the electrons in a star, thereby rendering fusion impossible. A star hit by the weapon would lose 1/1400 of its mass and instantly go out.
* The [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]] novel trilogy ''The Q Continuum'' suggests the supernova that destroyed the homeworld of the Tkon Empire (as seen in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]]'' episode "The Last Outpost") was caused by an omnipotent being that Q unleashed. This would answer the question of why a technologically advanced civilization with the power to move entire star systems could have been taken by surprise by a supernova.
* The [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]] novel trilogy ''The Q Continuum'' suggests the supernova that destroyed the homeworld of the Tkon Empire (as seen in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]]'' episode "The Last Outpost") was caused by an omnipotent being that Q unleashed. This would answer the question of why a technologically advanced civilization with the power to move entire star systems could have been taken by surprise by a supernova.
* 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).
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In [[Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger]] the Empire of the Seven Systems (the good guys FYI) used a [http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00012.html stellar lance] on the [[Absolute Xenophobe|Kvrk]]-[[Horde of Alien Locusts|chk]] as a deterrent.
* In [[Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger]] the Empire of the Seven Systems (the good guys FYI) used a [http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00012.html stellar lance] on the [[Absolute Xenophobe|Kvrk]]-[[Horde of Alien Locusts|chk]] as a deterrent.
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': {{spoiler|Destroying the Green Sun, a star twice the size of Earth's universe and the source of the powers of [[Physical God|First Guardians]] (and by extension [[Big Bad|Jack Noir]]), was [[Godzilla Threshold|one of the three means]] by which the kids intend to deal with how fucked up their Sburb session is; Rose Lalonde and Dave Strider travelled to the Sun with a bomb of sufficient power to destroy it with the intent of doing so. Subverted in spectacular fashion with the reveal that they were tricked into literally ''creating'' the Sun.}}
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': {{spoiler|Destroying the Green Sun, a star twice the size of Earth's universe and the source of the powers of [[Physical God|First Guardians]] (and by extension [[Big Bad|Jack Noir]]), was [[Godzilla Threshold|one of the three means]] by which the kids intend to deal with how fucked up their Sburb session is; Rose Lalonde and Dave Strider travelled to the Sun with a bomb of sufficient power to destroy it with the intent of doing so. Subverted in spectacular fashion with the reveal that they were tricked into literally ''creating'' the Sun.}}
* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', the [[Absolute Xenophobe|Pa'anuri]] tend to react to the use of gravitics (which are painful to them) by snuffing out the stars of inhabited worlds where the use occurs. If prevented from doing so, they'll find a nearby undefended star and make it go supernova.
* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', the [[Absolute Xenophobe|Pa'anuri]] tend to react to the use of gravitics (which are painful to them) by snuffing out the stars of inhabited worlds where the use occurs. If prevented from doing so, they'll find a nearby undefended star and make it go supernova.
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