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more raw firepower doesn’t solve it; it just shreds them into more seeds.

You’d need something qualitatively different, like:
# A way to change their nature - Turn their matter into something that is no longer “swarm” at all. - E.g., convert them into inert particles that can’t self-replicate.
# A universal kill-switch - Some mechanism that: - Switches off their ability to multiply, everywhere, at once. - More like a biological or informational hack than a gun.
# Banishing them from the universe entirely - We’re now in the territory of: - “Erase them from spacetime,” or - “Shunt their existence to another dimension.”

Under your current rules, with conventional “weapons” (even godlike ones):

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So, with this new “hair strand” replication:
* Your super-array is still terrifying,
* But the swarm is now conceptually unkillable, unless you change: - The rules of replication, - Or the fundamental way you remove them.

If you want, we can now explore:
* What kind of reality-breaking tech or rule-change your side would need (like a universal anti-swarm field, or rewriting their underlying physics) to actually end a swarm like this.