background furry #19375 
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but, I meeeean, leik, what's there stopping something like this;
%["Darkstar" by Ian Mallett; rendition of a “laserstar”—that is, a warship with a big laser designed for extremely-long-range standoff tactics (i.e., it is artillery). The speckles are supposed to invoke the prospect of scattered X-rays hitting the viewing camera. The fired x-ray beam itself is invisible, tho downrange it's likely a heuj explosion.]~
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Do some planets have defenses to prevent this? Like, as an example, neutral particle beam "halo rings" (not encircling tho, just smaller, like habitats), orbiting the defended planets in question, and always ready to sterilize/short-circuit any landing craft attempting to approach. Tho in that case, I guess "laserstars" could break that mere anti-dropship picket by blowing away the rings at a further distance...
tho there's also the prospect of surface-side defenses. Imagine for every highly mobile groundside army, there's one or two of something like this among their arsenal;
Ready to literally hurl"[lightning bolts":](https://youtu.be/4Iz4AoHnkgM?t=147) up into space at any warship attempting to conduct orbital bombardments (||which wouldn't be instantaneous, btw. It'd take between 5 to 20 minutes for a tungsten projectile to hurtle down into an earthlike atmosphere and burst into a still-ballistic fireball, then impact an area still filled with hopefully unmoved targets. You could attempt to go bigger with asteroids "[n'crazier shit":](https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4771ba89da222) to brute-force an opening for a beachhead, but that'd take a really long time to orchestrate (tho the thread could start off with all that shit already in place). I feel like at that point tho it should be considered a warcrime for ecocide. ^~%>__>~%^ ||)
Tho maybe... loik...
The reason gigantic warships can't take prominence(at the start at least) is because the enemy has, leik, "torch" missiles, that can relentlessly chase targets down for years throughout a system until they finally impact and kill their quarry, and so stealthy insertions via dropship (||or other "[smaller":](https://www.sarna.net/wiki/HALO_Paratrooper) means, maybe even hybernative "longjumps" from hidden dropships to land upon and infiltrate aloofthe orbiplanetalry defenses||) is safer.
...hooboi I'm rambling a ton. ^~%>_<~%^
but, I meeeean, leik, what's there stopping something like this;
![full](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVBdQ-RXkAgp5wj.jpg
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%["Darkstar" by Ian Mallett; rendition of a “laserstar”—that is, a warship with a big laser designed for extremely-long-range standoff tactics (i.e., it is artillery). The speckles are supposed to invoke the prospect of scattered X-rays hitting the viewing camera. The fired x-ray beam itself is invisible, tho downrange it's likely a heuj explosion.]
Do some planets have defenses to prevent this? Like, as an example, neutral particle beam "halo rings" (not encircling tho, just smaller, like habitats), orbiting the defended planets in question, and always ready to sterilize/short-circuit any landing craft attempting to approach. Tho in that case, I guess "laserstars" could break that mere anti-dropship picket by blowing away the rings at a further distance...
tho there's also the prospect of surface-side defenses. Imagine for every highly mobile groundside army, there's one or two of something like this among their arsenal;
![full](http://eldrich.host/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/creatures/Think%20Tank.png?itok=e1IZbqF5
Ready to literally hurl
Tho maybe... loik...
The reason gigantic warships can't take prominence
...hooboi I'm rambling a ton. ^