Casual reminder that staying on a planet if you're space capable is absolutely retarded, as are "space stations". Every spaceship is a space station. Voluntarily staying in a gravity well serves *no point*. There is 0 point in having planetary bases or installations. It's just as easy to build a 10 km ship or a 100 m ship in space. Put your industrial installations on a space-born platform, add a hyperdrive, done. Now go mine asteroid belts and park your (mobile) industrial facilities right next to it instead of stupid gravity wells.

Fucking planet shits. Whenever I play Empire At War I don't even fucking bother with planets (or invading them) I just blow them up. Just imagine all the resources that suddenly become available that you no longer have to peel from the thin top layer crust of a planet and then send it into space. You could build entire Dyson spheres with that material, nevermind death stars.

TOTAL PLANET DEATH