Star-Killing: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Derivative (talk | contribs) |
update links |
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
Next up is poisoning the sun such that it ages several billion years, depleting its hydrogen content and making it a cold dwarf star; or making it impossible for it to conduct hydrogen fusion, resulting in an atypical supernova. Of course, the bad guys might somehow apply enough firepower to literally blow up the sun (or cause it to go nova). Lastly, they might somehow collapse it into a [[Black Hole|singularity]] (again, atypical for the mass of many suns) or simply ''shoot'' the singularity into the star and have it get eaten from the inside out. |
Next up is poisoning the sun such that it ages several billion years, depleting its hydrogen content and making it a cold dwarf star; or making it impossible for it to conduct hydrogen fusion, resulting in an atypical supernova. Of course, the bad guys might somehow apply enough firepower to literally blow up the sun (or cause it to go nova). Lastly, they might somehow collapse it into a [[Black Hole|singularity]] (again, atypical for the mass of many suns) or simply ''shoot'' the singularity into the star and have it get eaten from the inside out. |
||
Interestingly, whatever means are used to kill the star might not harm any other stellar body it's aimed at. This is especially true for the "fusion-stopping" type poisons. If this poisoning takes long enough, the heroes may be able to apply an [[Magic Antidote]], administer life-saving [[Solar CPR]], or use an ''extremely'' powerful [[World-Healing Wave]] on the star. See also [[ |
Interestingly, whatever means are used to kill the star might not harm any other stellar body it's aimed at. This is especially true for the "fusion-stopping" type poisons. If this poisoning takes long enough, the heroes may be able to apply an [[Magic Antidote]], administer life-saving [[Solar CPR]], or use an ''extremely'' powerful [[World-Healing Wave]] on the star. See also [[Black Holes Suck]]. |
||
{{examples}} |
{{examples}} |
||
| Line 57: | Line 57: | ||
* ''StarForce Alpha Centauri''. The Xenophobe race can cause stars to go nova, incinerating the planets in the system. |
* ''StarForce Alpha Centauri''. The Xenophobe race can cause stars to go nova, incinerating the planets in the system. |
||
* ''[[Star Fleet Battles]]''. In one scenario a Sun Snake will approach and try to dive into a star. If it succeeds, the star will go nova. |
* ''[[Star Fleet Battles]]''. In one scenario a Sun Snake will approach and try to dive into a star. If it succeeds, the star will go nova. |
||
* The C'tan star gods in ''[[Warhammer |
* The C'tan star gods in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' are [[Energy Beings]] that feed off elecromagnetic radiation released by stars. This apparently makes the star unstable, as it's implied that the deadly radition given off by the star of the Necrontyr homeworld was because of the C'tan living on it. However, if the star is eventually destroyed by the process, it takes a very long time (the Necrontyr lived with their deadly star for millenia), so it doesn't necessarily fully fit this trope. |
||
== [[Video Games]] == |
== [[Video Games]] == |
||
| Line 78: | Line 78: | ||
[[Category:Tropes in Space]] |
[[Category:Tropes in Space]] |
||
[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]] |
[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]] |
||
| ⚫ | |||
[[Category:Apocalyptic Index]] |
[[Category:Apocalyptic Index]] |
||
| ⚫ | |||