The only realistic way to do this is to ban technological development through occupation. But this doesn’t make much sense when you can turn occupied territories into allies or colonies. It is possible to make a bird weapon, but for now it is impossible even in theory.
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What is a “bird weapon”?
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just do the anti-societal prions I made up a while ago. They’re really dumb and impractical compare to wiping the planet out of reality but they would stop progress
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perhaps there could be a species which doesn’t want another one to develop but at the same time it doesn’t find it nice to completely eradicate them so it opts for this “stupidity prions” option?
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The Dyson Combat Sphere can be used to defend the star system it is in by simply burning any fleets and projectiles that enter the system to interstellar dust.
Small features can be added, such as having a table of the number of souls killed appear on the screen after the superweapon is used, along with a sound, and creepy music will play where the superweapon is used.
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what do you mean by “souls”?
By “souls” I meant intelligent organisms
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What sort of superweapons could you make once you have ascended? Planet-sized monsters?
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In fact, ascension itself is a super weapon because it gives omnipotence.
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Would descension be the destruction of this superweapon then?
That is a great concept!
If you like Sci-Fi, I suggest you watch “3 Body Problem” (2024 version). I don’t want to spoil you, but your message ends up being very important!
Besides that, there are two things that can stop progress without erradicating or damaging a species too much.
1) Hacking: technologies such as hacking could be enough to disturb any scientific results registered. Imagine a super developed species looking towards Earth right now, and replace everything on the internet by false information (“Almost correct information to be hardly detectable, but wrong enough to prevent easy and fast progress”). Also, it could just create havoc on many technologies and other areas which rely on digital means.
2) Viral Weapons
Using my Plague Inc (game) experience, it would be fun to have epidemics which cause insomnia, paranoia, light sensitivity, illusions, … . This would also be enough to slow down scientific progress, since researchers would start to doubt themselves, others, have less attention span, less motivation, worse living conditions, … There is no need for prions when you could have these symptoms that slow down scientific progress by using a virus. These could be “engineered” in such a way that it slows down progress without causing serious health problems for the target species, or not. (using them with intent to create chaos and disrupt civilizations)
Prions are super dangerous, but easily containable (at least the ones we know about). They can only be passed by meat consumption and take years, maybe even decades, to cause any problems. They are super dangerous, because they end up getting stored in the brain and are to difficult/impossible to detect and eliminate on any living person. However, any Virus beats the spread speed of prions and can also be quiet incurable (example: rabbies, HIV, …).
Beyond the decrease in population (death), causing a change of resources of that species to deal with the viral spread, slowing down scientific progress (or even advancing in scenarios like helping that population to understand bio-engineering better), there are some things I can remember to consider for viral weapons:
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Using a Bio-Engineered virus on other civilizations would lead the other species to self-destroy (like nuke) areas, cities and maybe even planets in order to contain/eliminate the infection in more extreme cases;
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In a galactic empire, any viral weapon would be too local to actually have an impact on the progress of an enemy species that rules many planets. I say this, because the viral spread between planets would be really slow and improbable (?), since travels take longer and there can be higher control for bio hazards such as virus, prions, … at borders. Also, tech may be advanced enough to deal easily with any virus.
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Unless the attacking ones target all these planets at the same time.
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Nicoll-Dyson beam connected to a worm hole generator that allows it to destroy any planetary system in the galaxy by making the star go supernova.
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What if the planetary system is a rogue one far away from any stars? Will the method be used on the planet itself then?
Making a star go super nova is HARD, making a star go regular nova is difficult for white dwarfs, and HARD for other kinds. If you have a planetary death ray and a wormhole, simply obliterate everything larger than the moon one by one. Maybe use an intermediary step where the light travels through normal space for a while before being portaled into a focusing array then back out to deep space, repeat a few times until you’ve stored up enough death beams to hit every major planet at once.
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Or just hit the planets with kinetic relativistic projectiles or smth if you don’t want them turned into blazing dust, which takes time to reform into colonizable objects.
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Is is possible to make the dimension reducer weapon from “Death’s End” of the “Remembrance of Earth’s Past (Three-Body)” novels?
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No idea what these are, but they sure do sound like scifi techpieces.
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they collapse reality into a lower dimensional state (for example, if you’re a 3D being and you get hit by it, space will collapse into 2D, and this collapse will spread forever and at lightspeed, kinda like vacuum decay)
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That sounds like a gameover condition to me unless you manage to ascend before the 2D void gets to you
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