Waster lore question

[Wild colonial boy]

"Originally engineered to prevent resettlement of post-apocalyptic deathworlds, wasters are living area-denial weapons."
Why would someone want to prevent resettlement of post-apocalyptic deathworlds? I can't get it.

[schnappkatze]

Maybe you destroyed a civilization on a planet and want to make sure that no new civilization rebuilds itself out of the ashes- You don't want to do this every other thousand years. So you leave them behind as a tool to destroy any serious attempt to rebuild.

[Wild colonial boy]

Originally posted by schnappkatze:

Maybe you destroyed a civilization on a planet and want to make sure that no new civilization rebuilds itself out of the ashes- You don't want to do this every other thousand years. So you leave them behind as a tool to destroy any serious attempt to rebuild.

Sounds very cruel.

[Jaasrg]

For when you just want to be a huge ♥♥♥♥ and can't afford/bother to core the planet.

[The Blind One]

Originally posted by Jaasrg:

For when you just want to be a huge ♥♥♥♥ and can't afford/bother to core the planet.

This 'coring' sounds like a paradox thing lmao

Is that EU in space? (aka stellaris)

[Jaasrg]

Originally posted by The Blind One:

Originally posted by Jaasrg:

For when you just want to be a huge ♥♥♥♥ and can't afford/bother to core the planet.

This 'coring' sounds like a paradox thing lmao

Is that EU in space? (aka stellaris)

Dunno, I just stick with the classics so my mind went straight to Master of Orion 2 with that.
https://youtu.be/4dO01h3d2xs

[Petrothian]

secret foxgirl prison, that is why.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by SVinoreZ:

"Originally engineered to prevent resettlement of post-apocalyptic deathworlds, wasters are living area-denial weapons."
Why would someone want to prevent resettlement of post-apocalyptic deathworlds? I can't get it.

How I read that is the world was dead and hazardous to normal human life after some apocalypse, so instead of spending a lot of money and resources transporting millions or billions of survivors in spaceships to other planets they instead just implant them with the waster genepack and let them continue to "thrive" on their deathworld.

There is nothing inherently weaponized about wasters, they just live in wastelands. This means they can now turn areas on other planets into wastelands using toxic weapons without any downsides for them. They have become area denial weapons, which was not their original designed purpose.

[XelNigma]

If a planet has stratigic value, say it's on the edge of a empires' territory and acts as a staging area for fleets to enter I to your owned territory. But even after you have bombed it to ash it's still too resource intense for your faction to claim it as their own. So it's just better to burn that bridge and make sure no one rebuilds.

Could also be a drilling company wants the resources but keeps having claim disputes with the locals. Considering it takes decades to take a haul back to the core worlds to sell new locals could move in while your gone. Then the issue starts up all over again. Best to nuke it and put zombies down to keep normal humans from causing you trouble in the future.

[Steelfleece]

Originally posted by Jaasrg:

For when you just want to be a huge ♥♥♥♥ and can't afford/bother to core the planet.

They're probably cheaper than salting the entire planet, too. That'd be a lot of salt. So much salt. Although we can probably get that much from some of the comments on this forum.

[Astasia]

If your goal is to prevent people from living on a planet and exploiting the resources or building back up, you don't accomplish this by introducing a geneline that can live a happy and comfortable life on said planet. I think it is safe to assume that was not the intended meaning of that sentence. It is definitely worded in a confusing way though.