Originally by: Arceroth

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Stars are at the same time very strong and very delicate. Where as no amount of firepower will even damage a star, removing or adding enough matter from one can cause it to go nova.

In a sufficantly large star, say a red giant, the outer layer density would be as low as only a couple atmospheres. A ship built to take the incredable heat and relativly high pressure as compared to space could fly around inside a star for a time. In game terms a very high thermal and kinetic resistance, probably around 90%, would be needed to even consider entering a star.

Once inside a star not even a titan using its DDD would cause it to go nova, it might heat up a little, but not in any noticable way. However, say you took an orca into it and scooped up as much Helium as you could from as close to the core as you could get. In theory if you could scoop enough from one place then get the hell out before that little pocket of what would fuel the star's fusion process wouldn't, the star would collapse untill the fusion process starts up again, violently, causing a massive nova. But it would be anything from an exact science, take too little and the star just flares threateningly, take too much and the fusion process dosn't restart leaving a white dwarf.

Probably a more effective weapon would be causing a star to flare, dump enough hydrogen into one spot on the star's surface should cause a miniature nova. A little more controlled, less dangerous for the unfortunet orca pilot, and less destructive. Also messing with the star's magnetic feild can cause a mass ejection...

Tell you the truth, if you want to take out a space station, planet or something, throw an asteroid at it. Just get that titan to fire a couple shots at it, de-orbit it and play bowling. It's hard to see coming, destructive and very difficult to stop. Sanitizing an entire system by causing a star to nova is cool in theory, but you don't really want to do it, it leaves nothing to capture.

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