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==== You have: ====
* 100× kinetic cannons (0.01c, 1000 mm, high ROF)
* 100× light-speed railguns (1000 mm, insane KE)
* 100× lasers
* 100× atomizers (disintegrate on contact)
* 100× missile launchers → 300,000 star-core-hot H-bomb submunitions that can seek or mine

All of this does huge damage. But damage is now a trap:
* Kinetic & nukes: - Shatter them into more pieces. - If any matter remains → those bits eventually become more monsters.
* Lasers & star-core submunitions: - Even if you fry them to plasma, if that plasma cools and contains any “monster” information/stuff, it can in principle reform.
* Atomizers: - These are your only real hope, but now: - They have to remove literally every last bit of relevant matter.

And that’s the catch:

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Every hit that doesn’t result in perfect, total erasure of every last particle:
* Just spreads their bits around,
* Seeds more locations with “hair strands” of monster matter,
* Which then multiply.