How will the deluge colossus weapon work on artificial habitables?

[rubert]

Well, nobody but these three....

But did anyone mention that the Deluge weapon should turn the habitats into a space aquariums?

 

[Mitchz95]

On ringworlds, I assume it just kills the inhabitants and maybe adds some blockers.

I just assumed Deluge couldn't be used on habitats. Is that not the case?

 

[Eled the Worm Tamer]

My assumption is:

Ecumenopoli still get turned into Ocean Worlds. Just because there's a city there doesn't mean it cant be filled with water. Maybe there can be a special modifier for the planet that signifies there's a sunken city-world there.

Habitats get destroyed. Filling something with water tends to break it, and I'm sure all that water pressure will create a leak or two.

They probably won't be usable on ringworlds.

Ian M Banks actually has an Ocean ringworld / habitat (the term he uses is 'orbital' and I forget the exact scale) in Concider Philebas. One endless loop of ocean confined my dams at the edges, with only scatterd islands and vast urbanised barges as solid features. So water-ringworlds have president in the genre.

 

[malakhglitch]

Habitats turn into mini ocean worlds, i.e. they turn into space aquariums. That or they just go boom.

Ringworlds will turn into ocean ring worlds, instead of a gaia-like habitability they become ocean. That or they just go boom.

Let's just make them go boom.