From The Babylon Project
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| Shadow planetkiller
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| Status:
| Last Destroyed (as of 2267)
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| Affiliation:
| Shadows
Drakh (Appropriated)
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| Class:
| Planetkiller
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| Length:
| Variable
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| Mass:
| Unknown
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| Crew:
| Unknown
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| Engines:
| Unknown
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| Jump Capable:
| Yes
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| Weapons:
| Thousands of Thermonuclear missiles
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| Defenses:
| Short range Shadow beam weapons
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| Power:
| Unknown
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A Shadow planetkiller, also known as the Death Cloud, is made up of a nano-tech cloud surrounding an immense movable latticework superstructure.
The cloud itself does not register on normal sensors and seems to have the ability to drain energy from enemy ships, shutting down their jump engines. When the Planetkiller is unleashed upon an inhabited world the superstructure unfolds, enclosing the planet before launching thousands of multi-megaton thermonuclear missiles that penetrate the planet's crust before detonating, thereby tearing the planet apart from the inside. To help protect against destruction, the device's main control center is hidden in a seemingly ordinary lattice junction beside the main hub, only differentiated by defensive beam weaponry. During the Second Shadow war, the Shadows began to use this weapon against worlds that were supporting the Vorlons, though only after the Vorlons started using their own planetkillers against worlds that the Shadows had influenced. [1] One of the last worlds destroyed by the Shadows was Zander Prime, homeworld of Dureena Nafeel. Although Dureena later stated that they had been neutral, the Shadows clearly thought Zander Prime had been influenced by the Vorlons enough to make it a legitimate target. [2]
When the Shadows left the galaxy with the other First Ones they took most of these devices with them. However, one remained in storage somewhere and their former servants, the Drakh, managed to gain control over it and attempted to use it against Earth. The weapon was destroyed when the Victory rammed into the hidden control center causing the device to be triggered early, thereby essentially firing upon itself and the Drakh within it. [2]
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