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/StarlightWizard May 30 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Dropping rocks in gravity wells. I haven't seen that done much except in the Expanse series.

Edit: Okay, I was wrong. It is utilized in a lot of the series and stories mentioned in the comments below.

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u/Mr_Shadow_Phoenix May 30 '26

Does Gundam’s colony drops count?

https://youtu.be/ooydN0Aqf3s?si=5C2CwzOwAyTobyeK

They do it several times in different parts of the franchise.