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=== Assistant: So now each submunition is basically a tiny piece of stellar core rage. ===
So now each submunition is basically a tiny piece of stellar core rage. Lovely 😅

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The Sun’s core is around 15 million K. That’s not “really hot,” that’s “matter is plasma and nuclei are smashing together” hot.

Let’s plug that into your submunitions:
* Each one: - Has the yield of a large hydrogen bomb - Can track targets or act as a mine - And now its material / plasma is at core-of-sun temperatures

You have:
* 100 missile launchers
* 30 cluster missiles per launcher
* 100 submunitions per missile

→ 300,000 sun-core-hot H-bomb submunitions per full volley.

==== At ~15 million K: ====
* Anything near it: - Gets instantly turned to plasma - Electrons stripped off, atoms ripped apart - “Armor” and “flesh” don’t mean much

So each submunition isn’t just:
* Boom → shockwave + radiation

It’s:

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Even your ultra-tank swarm units with:
* 1,000,000+ HP
* 1,000,000 HP shield
* 1,000 HP/sec regen

are just matter. Matter at those temperatures:
* Doesn’t stay “in monster form” for long.
* Shields or no shields, their substance is being turned into ionized plasma.

So practically:
* Any monster or cluster caught in the immediate blast volume → instantly slagged.
* Surviving “chunks” are much more likely to be: - Fine vapor/plasma, - Too shredded to split into new monsters.

That directly fights your “splits if not fully destroyed” rule, because not much is left in big enough pieces.

==== Remember, in mine mode, these submunitions can just sit somewhere in space and wait. ====

Now picture that:
* You seed a region with submunitions that: - Sit there, - Detonate into core-of-sun-level plasma the moment a swarm unit enters range.

The result is:
* Persistent, lethal bubbles: - Not just nukes, - Nuke + brief star-core microzones.

For the swarm:
* Trying to move through a mined zone becomes: - “Touch this point → teleport to inside the Sun’s core.”

Even highly resistant mutants:
* Can’t meaningfully “tank” being turned into 15-million-K plasma around the detonation center.

==== In seeker mode, a submunition can chase a target and then detonate at point-blank with: ====
* H-bomb yield,
* Star-core temperature.

So:
* Big combines? → Submunition tracks, slips into the middle, detonates, creates a core-of-sun bubble inside.
* Fast elites? → They can dodge shells, but not 100 tracking mini-suns.

This makes your seekers perfect for:
* Hunting down: - High-HP tanks, - Hive cores, - Important mutations, - Dense clusters trying to dodge everything else.

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* If a monster survives as large chunks, it can multiply.
* But at star-core temps, most hits: - Vaporize or reduce the target to plasma, - So the chance of cleanly surviving as a half/third big enough to regrow drops a lot.

So:

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===== - Regen is meaningless if: - You’re reduced to disassociated plasma. =====
* Only matters if: - You survive outside the main kill bubble, - With some structure intact.

Core-hot submunitions + your other weapons → fewer “barely alive” survivors.

===== - Devour needs corpses or chunks of monster. =====
* Star-core-level destruction: - Leaves a lot more unusable plasma, - Much less clean biomass.

So you’re not just killing, you’re denying food and templates for their evolution.

==== Your fortress now has: ====
* 100× guns
* 100× railguns
* 100× lasers
* 100× atomizers
* 100× missile launchers → 300,000 core-of-sun H-bomb submunitions per full salvo that can: - Hunt targets, or - Sit as mines and vaporize anything that comes near.

The swarm still has:
* Completely absurd numbers and HP
* Shields, regen, devour, splitting, fast mutation, hive mind

But the more you make your submunitions:
* Precise (tracking), and
* Completely overkill (star-core-hot),

the more the fight becomes:

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If you want, next we can flip the script and say:
* “Given all this, what crazy new ability would the swarm need (like teleporting directly inside your fortress) to actually threaten you again?”