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==== The swarm right now: ====
* ~10²⁴ monsters
* 1,000,000,000 shield HP + 10,000,000,000–1,000,000,000,000 body HP each
* 1,000,000 HP/sec regen each
* Devour, split, multiply from a hair strand, fast mutation, hive mind

Your problem before was mostly scale and regrowth:
you could annihilate anything near you, but the universe is huge and they keep re-seeding from tiny leftovers.

Now, with 10× fire rate:

===== - Kinetics + railguns: - The volume of space filled with impacts becomes continuous and dense. =====
* Lasers: - You can keep most directions under constant beam pressure.
* Atomizers: - You erase 10× more mass per second, so far fewer viable fragments slip through.
* Missiles: - You can flood approach vectors with tens of millions of smart, star-core nukes very quickly.
* Black holes: - You can spawn huge numbers of 1-second BHs: - Turning whole incoming formations into “briefly a gravity salad and then gone.”

Any swarm mass that tries to push close:

: 

Even with their billion-HP bodies and ridiculous regen, they can’t out-heal a universe worth of fire pointed in one direction.

===== Your biggest conceptual problem was: =====
* If even a hair’s worth of matter remains, it can multiply.

With 10× atomizer and BH fire:
* Many more fragments are: - Either swallowed (BH), or - Completely erased (atomizers),
* Before they can drift away and regrow.

You still won’t be perfect everywhere in the cosmos, but around your fortress, the % of matter that escapes as viable seeds drops a lot.