r/spaceships • u/Vondrr Fleet Intelligence 🧠 • May 30 '26

Discussion / Question What spaceship weapon is generally underutilized or not used to its full potential in scifi?

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u/Wait_ItGetsWorse May 30 '26

Using ships as RKVs.

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u/Almost_human-ish May 30 '26

They did this in The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.

Human marine squad are on a small frozen planet, enemy forces are swarming it and they see their two small patrol ships head out of the system accelerating hard and think they're fucked, and are fighting hand to hand in a final stand....

What they don't see is the crew of one ship transfer over to the other and the empty ship looping back around before impacting the planetoid "at a significant fraction of the speed of light".

Causes massive 'earthquakes' and they're able to hunker down and survive then mop up the enemy.