Nuclear Disarmament

[AlexV]

Is there any way to safely dispose of an unwanted nuclear warhead? I've got a couple stored on a planet that isn't going to need them, which means I can't build new ones where I do want them. Apparently they don't fit inside a transport ship, and trying to move them under their own power has resulted in the AI suicidally blowing them up.

[x4000]

Unfortunately not -- warheads are a real liability once you build them, so having a stockpile of the big ones in particular is quite dangerous (as in real life).

[danando]

my opinion? defend them on the edge of the planet where spped is = to 8 and with manny mrls or other turrets problem soved

[ShadowOTE]

Find a nice backwater system way behind your front lines and put them there, as far away from the wormhole as you can. If you want, throw a cloaking starship on them (not sure if they can cloak warheads, but it's a good start).

[AlexV]

All of those keep them safe from unwanted detonation, but what I really want to do is to decommission them - removing them from the ship cap. So the only way to dispose of a nuke is to blow a planet up with it? Can't help thinking that I'd fire the weapons scientist who came up with that one. Oh well.

[danando]

wait?! why you got that many nukes anyway ?!?! if u were gunna destroy planets then do that othrwise why you got nukes?

[danando]

you should read the bug listings because i think theres a line saying nukes are classed as missiles or somthing so they cant go in transport anyway good look

[ShadowOTE]

Huh? when did transports enter into this conversation?


Edit: duh! I guess I should have checked the top post...

[AlexV]

I had max resources, and time to spare, so I thought I'd stockpile some warheads for future use. I didn't realise they couldn't be transported at the time, or it wouldn't have seemed like such a good idea.

[danando]

yh alex  hope they dont go off

[Lancefighter]

I've used cloaking starships to great effect while moving warheads - most notably, in my dyson campaign, I used cloaking starships to hide a few lightning warheads so I could move them closer to the orbital mass driver, to engage the defenses. Damn warhead interceptors are a pain sometimes.

which reminds me. If you do find a warhead interceptor, you can use that to decommission your nukes :p

[wyvern83]

Wouldn't that detonate the nuke?

If so a warhead interceptor would be of no protection from nukes for the system it was in. I think I understand why 'core' mkIV worlds have them now, it's more than just for self-defense but the defense of the system(s) behind them.

[x4000]

Wouldn't that detonate the nuke?

If so a warhead interceptor would be of no protection from nukes for the system it was in. I think I understand why 'core' mkIV worlds have them now, it's more than just for self-defense but the defense of the system(s) behind them.

Nope, warhead interceptors specifically disable the warhead without setting it off. That's the only unit in the game that does that, I should have thought to mention it myself.

[ShadowOTE]

Interesting use for a warhead interceptor, assuming you can get the nuke that far... cloaking starship perhaps?

[Nemo]

Definitely worth trying but the price of failure is high if you don't 'save scum'.