Stellaris: Nicoll-Dyson destroys entire star system
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- I wasn't able to find a video that shows this.
This is the the Nicoll-Dyson Gigastructure. It has the ability to destroy a planet similar to a Colossus-with the added benefit of being able to fire from the other side of the galaxy. You can even destroy entire star systems once in awhile. This video showcases the destruction of an entire star system.
Sooo, apparently the youtube algorithm did a thing...
How in the world did all of you find this video?!?! This was made for some chap on reddit who wanted to see what this looked like. Never expected this... haha Crazy!! Y'all are awesome btw. The comments are great!
Its all Thanks to the New nemesis DLC
UA-cam has rivalry with Tiktok. I think this is the way they want to beat Tiktok.
It was in my home page
Got recommended, bruh
That is a Birthday gift or smth) Awesome vid, nonetheless.
POV: You've never played Stellaris but the title was cool.
True. But can you tell me what I just watched? Is that something that happens in the story, or did the Player do this??
@@desmonddart5163 player did this to his own territory. He's gone 200 years(probably 50+hours in realtime including endgame lag) past the vanilla victory year so he probably just did it for fun lmao
@@ageofhedonism Whoa, That's so damn epic to have a game, where you can build something incredible like this 😶 Imagine you build up your territory and suddenly outta nowhere someone blows it all up with a self made hyper death ray 😶
@@desmonddart5163 personally, I'd say the most impressive part is that this comes from a mod where this isn't even the strongest megastructure you can build. Something similar is coming to the vanilla game as a DLC but it's actually insane what you can do in this game with mods
@@ageofhedonism absolutely👍 Too bad I could never play that, since it would fry my computer and I can't afford a better one 😩
Maxim 37: There is no overkill. There is only "open fire" and "reload".
Addendum: If you need a calendar to compute minimum safe distance, there _might_ be "overkill".
Also appropriate:
Maxim 13: Do unto others.
a calendar? A calendar is insufficient to compute minimum safe distance. There are ideas out there for wiping out entire galaxies by building supermassive "black hole bombs"
On the other hand it might also be possible to make giant "black hole beam guns" from the supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies.
@@inventor121 Such things are neither feasible, nor practical.
The joke, however (as far as the 70 Maxims is concerned) is that if minimum safe distance is more than a couple light-days away from the point of impact/deployment, using the weapon MIGHT be overkill.
@@aerfwefd7334 The weapon shown in the clip seems to induce a supernova. The minimum safe distance from one of those is measured in light _years._
@@mithiwithi Nicoll-Dyson beams are able to scour a planetary body of life over the course of one rotational period. They are not capable of doing anything but blowing mass off of another star, thus prolonging its life and reducing the violence of its death.
Palpatine: Write that down! Write that down!
He did already, look up the Sun Crusher from Legacy
Everyone copied Dune.
@@manawa3832 Everyone copied Dyson
@@Jellybellie Everyone copied Archimedes
@@Neion8 everyone copied everyone
“I used the star to destroy the star”
a star destroyer being used to its fullest potential xD it was born to do this!
I know I'm late but it's actually interesting because in essence they're taking a protostar in it's earliest form and conduit-ing that energy into the other star speeding up it's process till it burns itself out in an explosion. It's rather practical however hard to achieve.
Yep, who needs a slowass hokie Death Star, draggin its sorry ass around the galaxy, when you can just shoot from the hip kiddo! ;)
@@ugandanknuckles3900 That would still be on the timescale of billions of years and stupidly impractical.
It's funny, but then you realize you can destroy the joke by pointing out that it should be "I used a star to destroy a star" because there are many stars, unlike the gems.
This guy: Destroys his own star system.
AI: Yeah, gonna go make some claims, what's the worst that can happen.
1 second after the declaration of war
AI: the fuck is that bright light in the sk-
AI: oh fuck I can't fight that, they'll just blow me up
Scientist outside the simulation: Nice, V74-3381 is showing signs of fear and anxiety. It's thinking.
"Burned whole solar systems like they were cauterizing a wound." - James Holden
Was looking for an Expanse comment, nice.
Shotgun pointed at the door.
@@troubblegum Doors and corners, kid. That's where they get you.
@@BoxStudioExecutive If you go into the room too fast, it'll eat ya!
I am that guy
When he told that?
So this is where the Stellaris devs got the nemesis dlc from lol
Yes. Thats how they do it with all dlc. Where do you think robots came from?
@@BigMisterApple Robots were part of the game since day 1.
As was the ability to just make them full Citizens.
Having a Gestal Consciousness Authority was all their work. As was tying it into that one. As was creating the Technological Ascension path.
Ikr, with the star-destroying weapon and the pan-galactic federation forimng after you build one, the resemblance is uncanny
@@svijj_ We already had the "League on non-allinged systems" in case of a war in heaven. Obviously based in Babylon 5 - down to the Archievement names and texts.
And a custodian fallen empire in some of the crises.
This is just integrating the whole thing into the Space UN.
@@christopherg2347 Shut up fanboy.
Wait that destroys the hyperspace lanes?!?
Sounds like a good way to stop invading fleets
@Andy Chang Until u realize that you can build gates.
For the endgame crisis it's not bad
You can vaporise a star system with that.
Why bother blocking what you can simply anihilate?
@Andy Chang friendly jump gates
Isolationist time
Imagine if you stalemated a war and your enemy drops this on your capital system
That’s what I called a scorched planet policy.
If you can’t have their territory then no one will.
This is madness!
@@krikeydial3430 madness?
*THIS IS SPARTA*
So WWII?
This is only setting 3 of 4. The highest setting kills the system and everything within 4 jumps
Hah you predicted the new dlc
For the record nicoll and Dyson (yes that guy) came up with the idea idea for this(built out of tin foil sheets attached to a few million satellites) to demonstrate that with current levels of tech(although a lot more anger management issues), a species could build one of these and burn every planet in the galaxy every 10000 years. This demonstrates that
either
A=genocidal aliens killing off all life is not the the reason there are no signals from space.
B=humans are far more omnicidal than any species we share the galaxy with...
Fun Fact: It could also be that Humans are the first Sentient Species in the Universe
"Omnicide", huh? Now I know what my Limit Break would be called.
@@doriantheobald6196 It may seem impossibly low probability, on the other hand there has to be a first and we may just be it.
@@Navhkrin as low as having another single intelligent species outside earth
And this thread explains a fraction of the reason why we are omnicidal. Single-minded, incessant and downright delusional arrogance on a mass scale.
I like how it destroys hyperlanes, but the system is still there. so you could make your own little corner of the galaxy that you have to jump in and out of.
Secure ark site in case of galactic catastrophe possibly
played stellaris for a week, every run ends up with end game micromanagement. I really wished the automation actually worked.
dont expand so much if you have issues with micro? Just vassalize other empires my dude, let them do the work for you
@@dazurathefirst8456 then you can't get the resources or anything from it. and the AI is useless in that regard
yeah but the game runs like ass already so i think a performance update is needed before an AI one
At that point your empire can afford to bear the economic burden of a lack of micro dude. Trust me, once your economy is big enough, there are really only a few planets you have to care about. The rest you fix when there's a serious issue.
If you tried this game 4 years ago, micromanagement was far worse. So to me it's more or less tolerable at this level these days.
Finally, a weapon to surpass metal gear.
Lmao yes sir, I thought the crab duel wielding knifes was bad not even close
“The remaining systems will bow to the first order!!!”
"and will remember this as the LAST day of the Republic! "
You know what's funny, this method makes more sense than Disney's explanation.
The galaxy remembers
@@angelem5960 ABSOLUTELY. This would have been much much much better, and probably better named than the idiotic "Starkiller Base" That was the lamest named, not to mention completely loopy superweapon.
Don't worry... we didn't learn from the 1st of the 2nd Deathstar being blown up by weak points and have incorporated a weakness in this one too that can be exploited and known by a janitor even xD
is nobody talking about how many ring worlds this guy has
He liked it so much he put several rings on it.
I mean, you get to a point in some empires where you literally just need the space for all your pops.
@@davidthorp01 a d m i n i s t r a t i v e p a r k
@@wimpwampwomp
L E B E N S R A U M
@@davidthorp01 SPACE FOR L I V I N G
The idea of firing through a wormhole generator is the Stellaris equivalent to a drone strike
You used… a Dyson Sphere… As a weapon to ignite and create a supernova…
…
_I need this game_
It’s a mod but still cool.
@@BallMuncher555 I Mean During this time it was a mod,We can cause supernova in vanilla now,that and using spies to eat stars
@@kevinnac1 What
@@KnownNiche1999 about what? Vanilla supernovas or spies?
If you purchase the game, the mod is Gigastructural Engineering
Warhammer 40K Imperium of Man: Exterminatus is the most grimdark thing ever.
Nicoll-Dyson beam: Hold my beer.
That honor still goes to Gridfire in the Culture series.
@@magicmulder nah grid fire is fiction, two people actually designed one of these, to point out how close we are to being able to build one of these in real life. Humans are insane.
@@nickburton9366 if they said we could do it there full of shit count how many solar panels we have up in space to send us free energy fuck a 300 sq mile panel park would give the world all we need so no we are at least 50 thousand years off doing that
theres no grimdarkness in a nicoll-dyson beam, you need a ww1 trench warfare feeling for that with blood and mud and shrapnell. id describe the beam from a pre type 1 civilization as eldritch even, lovecraftian
@@TheHortoman I suppose the definition of grimdark is subjective. I find plenty of grimdarkness in "Hey, let's fire this thing at star X to make sentient species Y go extinct before they become a threat or to show everyone that planet Z's insubordination will not be tolerated. What's that? You say that'll kill billions of innocent civilians? Details, details. Now let's see some fireworks!"
I see. This is what Holden saw in the Expanse
The funny thing is when you finished building it, it granted to 100 positive diplomatic points toward other empires (Not fallen empires). The reason is "Terrifying hyper-weapon". Sometime in game, I built this thing for diplomatic purposes and destroy the crisis.
Hahahaha 🤣 you build death star .... For peace. I would see Empire propoganda for this.
@@Baranina123 Sadly, that’s how nukes work IRL. We haven’t had a single world war for the last 76 years simply because of fear of someone nuking our planet into a ball of barren wasteland.
@@zaniatnik This is working only until some crazy fanatics who actually want to to die in nuclear flame appears.
The true definition of "nuclear deterrent" :)
@@Vednier China seem to be the one pushing it
Fires gigantic sun laser at an enemy star system. Sees bad guys are called arachnid swarm. Whole new meaning to the term kill it with fire
"See that star over there? Fuck it, and everything in the immediate vicinity."
Yep, cause a supernova & you should wipe out most carbon-based life within 30-50 light years (in theory).
They declared war on us. We declared Exterminatus on them.
@@borbo23 oh extraminatus is just one of the many Imperium superweapons
So... can you destabilise a Star to get a similar effect to this but with wormhole generator being near the target and the other end being near a Black Hole level gravity well (or event horizon) ?
@@CompatibilityMadness The mechanicus would have something stashed away on mars that could do that, yes. Just don't ask if they KNOW it's there.
@@ryanperryjasper Also the inquisitors were against much of new innovations of Imperium isn’t?
@@angelofthedead1886 no that’s higher ups of the mechanicus they generally will not authorize inventions such as AI or involving technology they deem heretical and they can’t understand IE warp technology ,necron bio metal,dark eldar tech etc otherwise they actually do Permit RnD for tech marines and Magoses
when you're slightly ahead in Civ game and decide to troll your friend who just got to masonry
Man, if only the Imperium of Man could have something like this in Warhammer 40k. They’d be able to cause quite a few Xenos star systems to disappear
Funnily enough, the Necrons can actually do that.
@@ASNS117Zero so we can say that, when we reach this point in the game, we are stronger than the Imperium?
@@danielm.595 honestly, yeah. Endgame Stellaris empires are more or less dark age of technology tier in a lot of ways, especially if you look past arbitrary game mechanics like megastructure build limits.
Blue Dog or Tau would be able to destroy fortified imperium worlds
-With the exception of the Exodites, most Eldar are in Craftworlds that are hard to find or in the Webway, which the Imperium can’t access.
-Tyranids and Orks don’t tend to stay in a system for too long.
-Necrons have an real-time map of the galaxy that blows up anything they touch.
-T’au and Votaan are the only ones that would be in immediate danger of being wiped out.
Edit:
-Chaos is in the Warp so, good luck with that.
So basically it uses the mass of the Star to make the other one go over its critical mass and collapse into a supernova, however, the first (blue) star would significantly increase its radius during the mass transfer and its fusion reaction would greatly diminish due to the drop in temperature during the expansion. This means that such a device would probably be destroyed during its operation as it would be engulfed by the star, and also its orbit would change as the mass of the star changes, which implies the star’s gravity will change as well. Tidal forces would be extreme and the structure could collapse due to this as well. Oh, and also, the transfer of mass implies a change in momentum, which means the Star would experience an acceleration due to Newton’s 2nd law, such a large transfer of mass would probably mean a change in the star’s orbit, and a catastrophic change in the orbits of any planets surrounding it, which could render that solar system unstable, and habitable planets in that system not habitable anymore...
Yeah it’s kinda cool, let’s do it.
that's why probably it would be wiser to not buid that on a system that's colonized. maybe probes would be sent to uncharted systems and if the need arises they could gather resources off orbiting plantes, build that on the star and use it for whatever reason. all you lose is potential resources off those planets and a star
That's the spirit of humanity speaking right there
im not too sure about the mass transfer, i know, thats what it looks like, but the original nicoll dison thing is afaik "just" a star-powered superlaser (which is capable of grilling planets several lightyears away) that is solely powered by the radiation of the star its build around and doesnt manipulate the stars mass in any way.
A far cheaper option is to just focus the star light into multiple building sized projectiles, which would accelerate them to a good fraction of lightspeed, you then open a wormhole and each projectile hits with enough force to kill a planet. You can destroy multiple systems at once without needing to supernova a star
We dont know it would actually work by transferring the mass. It might be a type of beam that aims the core of the star and making it go supernova. The problem is, we dont exactly know how the collapsing core suddenly bombs and not just collapse into neutron star or black hole. (Not every major star goes supernova, some of them - even though they have enough mass for a nova- only collapse.) So there just maybe another mechanism to blasat that aimed star.
"what the fuck is that"
"Oh its just the unmatched power of the sun!"
Now imagine after the supernova, a black hole forms and starts pulling all the systems closer.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Thank you for reminding me how truly awful the lategame lag is
Bruh this is the first proper stellaris equivalent to modern day nukes
I learned the hard way that you can't just close the Nicoll-Dyson beam targeting selection window, you have to hit the cancel button or it will just destroy whatever system was at the top of the target list.
#-This imformation cost what
~-copple prety good star systems
#-ovv it must hurt
~-yep
thats why i like using the lanes... it creates random choke points which force you to not plan just the next system or empire to engage but to what choke point is available next. so at each of these choke points you end up developing fortress systems...and behind them planets that while not overly developed are usually specialized in ship or economy output.
It’s strange… whilst I watch that I felt a strange disturbance… as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced…
Almost the same size of the load of a minecraft player who started a carreer in architecture.
This is some crazy ass 'Space Pirate Captain Harlock' stuff, Cant wait to see more from the Movie in Stellaris in future DLC's.
oh good, i'm not the only one who thought of that when seeing this
Hearts of Iron 4: committing war crimes by encircling and killing hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
Stellaris: casually destroying an entire star system and killing billions of civilians living on the planet
And we'll remember this, AS THE LAST DAY OF JONDUS!
Well as it turns out you don't need a giant gigastructure enveloping an entire star to destroy a star system all you really need is a big cube
Carl Sagan: - THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT
So since there's no command to remove a system, the modder got around by changing star class, reducing "planet" size, and removing all hyperlanes to the system.
Also kind of makes sense. If you 'destroy' a star system your not obliterating a suns worth of matter.
Rather your superheating the star, making it undergo runaway fusion and it supernova's leaving behind a neutron star and a lot of dead people.
We will watch your career with great interest
Dyson vacuums have really progressed. Did it create more or less dirt? Could be a design flaw.
booooooooooo
Dyson is knighted its Sir Dyson
Well, I'd say you can't get more dirt than a literal entire solar system of dirt🤷♂️
Sad part is if we ever figure out how to make Dyson sphere we would likely weaponize it because if you look back at any new technology we have developed people tried to figure out if it could be turn into a weapon.
good
This is the true reason aliens don't visit us.
good thing its entirely theoretical and likely impossible
could have say the same thing with nukes yet it never being use other than the end of WW2
who needs cyclonic torpedoes when u have one of these ready and available
Step 1: Destroy solar system
Step 2: Jump Drive construction in there and claim solar system
Step 3: Build Ring World in said system
Step 4: Colonize
Step 5: REPEAT
Build a ring world around...what exactly? 8-/
Xenophobe Fallen Empire: We want a buffer between us. A cold, empty buffer.
Me: Your wish is my command.
This looks like a game I could get lost for hours in and I have no idea what's even going on.
Well thats just any paradox game in a nutshell😀
Ah! You just gave me an idea to destroy the Compound! ( the biggest Crisis the game has ever seen, they take no damage from non Dark matter weapons).
In space, no one can hear the Geneva Conventions.
I love this game soooo much! I learn something new almost every time I play. However I have yet to destroy any star system. I have a Necroid Magacorp game going on at the moment where this very well could be a possibility for me. End game hasn't been my strong suite.
This is actually part of a mod for Stellaris, not part of the basegame
Mod Name: Gigastructural Enginnering and More
"Did you do it?"
"Yes"
"What did it cost?"
"1000 credits and 2 days"
damn bro, those asteroid belts are solid asf.
The algorithm is doing the thing again!
Reminds me of Spore... you use the planet destroyer? Every empire instantly declares war on you. You use the terraformer to cook a planet into a lava world? No, that's fine!
Ah yes,the sun gun.
"UNLIMITED... POWER"- zappy fingers/palpatine sometime probably
Other empires: you are causing border friction.
Me: can't cause border friction if there is bo border.
Other empires: W H A T?
Vanilla Megastructures: cringe 1 ringworld and "inhabitable stations"
GSC Mega-Kilo-Gigastructures: chad sphere that kills billions of people faster than colossus
Holy jesus carpenter they didn’t just put the Death Star (Colossus) in this game, they put Star Killer Base in here too?
You play with gigaenginnering for so long and you forget that it isnt a base part of the game
Those 2 days passed so slow I thought it was paused. This is why I’m never gonna be able to make one of those
This is what the Empire needs not Death Stars
Wait thats a cool idea. I’m gonna steal this for my sci fi setting.
and the scary part is that this is not even the most powerful 'gun' you can possibly make. theres the gun that you can create, powered by the black hole at the center of the galaxy. i fired that at the captial star system of a rival empire, and it disappeared completely. it immediately triggered other empires to declare war at me.
0:45 They’ll remember this as the LAST DAY! OF THE REPUBLIC!!!
The power of Super Perfect Cell's Solar Kamehameha!
BEAT IT AND TAKE YOUR PLANET WITH YOU!!!! KAMEHAMEHAAAAAA
Really puts DBZ power scaling in perspective, and it's only the Cell saga too.
Imagine a handful of the GRB we detect from millions of light years away were actually weapons like this.
There is a gigstructure using a supermassive black hole, but I once tried using it to destroy a star cluster and crashed my game instead
in 2 minutes of a space civ sandbox game, you perfectly encapsulated the entire concept of the dark forest theory.
Who need Death Star when you have Nicoll-Dyson
Gives the term "Death Star" a whole new meaning.
Coming to EVE Online next summer.
Lol, imagine. That would be a pretty interesting character study though. Give players a nuke and an actual way to destroy the game. Will they develop their own version of the Cold War. Or will it be the end of the game? And a poetic end at that.
Knowing EVE? Jita would be gone in seconds, then every single faction in the game would probably come together to wipe it out. Would be beautiful.
'Some men just want to watch the world burn.' They'd never take the chance that some serious emo-space kid would blow up the universe just to see it happen.
Perfect to use it when the gamer population dwindle and game start to be not profitable.
That makes the Death Star a baby comparison to that.
Using this you can practically seal off your empire, by destroying systems that create chokepoints with the hyperlanes. You can effectively heavily fortify just a single system, station your fleets there and then create a gate, using it to navigate in and out.
You still have rhe peoblem or the ebemy havint jump drives
Next DLC, you can recreate stars and planets from gas...
"According to myth, the Earth was created in 6 days. Now, watch out. Here comes Genesis. We'll do it for you in 6 minutes." - Dr McCoy
"took on his multiarmed form and said, behold i have become death. destroyer of worlds"
Starkiller base wishes it could be this badass
"When you saw the Dyson Sphere, were you blinded by it's majesty?"
that was a very sad explosion.... was hoping for a bit more lol
"some may question my right to destroy a system of 100 billion souls, but those who truly understand realize I have no right to let them live"
Literal Death Star
weapons testing committee: "sorry, would you repeat that?"
mad scientist: "so well i intend to use our star to fuel a big fucking gun and destroy the star of our enemies"
weapons testing committee: "sure ... what could possibly go wrong"
Imperial nobility: did they really just blow up a star?
Military advisors: yes they did
Nobility: has anyone said anything?
Military: nope.
Emperor: do it again. Target the Fallen Empire and make a corridor to the rest of the Federation. We'll use jump drives of we have to
See this would have been cool in the Star Wars Episode 7
@@cas0276 They HAD to? Did they HAVE to? They could always try to be uh i don't know....original? Or hey if that's too hard (for these idiots) they should have just read the Star Wars books if they want good ideas for a superweapon. They didn't have to be completely idiotic. They chose the words they wrote on that script, they decided it was an idea worth pursuing copy pasting episode 4 and all it's elements and slap the number 7 in there. I'm not too mad about it, at this point i have lost all faith in the franchise. They have as much hope of creating a great Star Wars film at this point as the people on the planet have of surviving this Stellaris annhilation.
Emperor Palpatine immediately picks up the phone and calls his geonosian Death Star retailer and demands a refund!
Kinda feel like this type of weapon could and might actually exist.
Kinda feel that your an idiot.......
News flash I'm right and you wasted time
if that wormhole worked both ways it would truly become a glass canon
And that's why you always need a ZPM in Reserve to protect the stargate with a shield. Otherwise the replicators are a Real problem 😉
my thoughts exactly.
this will most certainly have devastating effects on the local wildlife and housing economy within the area in question
When a star destroyer becomes more powerful then a Death Star :p
See what I did there
the start of the great journey .
This is so cool, will it be coming to console edition? It's hard to find stellaris vids with official paradox content only these days all the crazy stuff like this is usually mods
Unfortunately not as it is part of the Gigastructures mod
@@interstellarpostman5430 dang it's still awesome tho
I'm loving this lmao I've watched like 5 times, that's quite the intense weapon.
I'm not convinced you could destroy a star like that. At most you'd be cooking up the star, accelerating the pace at which it burns and shortening it's life, but only by millions of years at most. Depending on the size of the target star and how long you pumped energy into it, you could potentially cause it to turn into a red dwarf or black hole, but I really don't believe that's possible given what I'm seeing.
However, one interesting experiment: put those wormhole portals closer to the stars and see if the gravity would tether the two and cause them to collapse into one another
Dont know why youtube recommended this but thank you
That's kinda broken. If I hit a few strategic spots then I can just isolate myself from everyone else or vice versa
Gigastructures mod wasn't meant for balance
Very nice to see the Celestial Orrery getting some use.
Nicol-Dyson, how do you know my Ex-Girlfriend? AM I RITE FELLAS??!?!? Hahahaha *quickly turns into a skeleton in a fashion similar to the nazi at the end of the third Indiana Jones movie*