[quote=@Willy Vereb]
Although well if you do need a weapon for terestrial bombardment then I do suggest kinetic bombs. That is nothing but dropping random mass from space. Or if precision is required use smaller munitions but en-masse.
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That's actually what I was planning basically, when I said kinetic bombardment I didn't mean WMDs and such, basically just the en masse bombardment, like naval arillery but in spaaaaaaaace.

As to the ships, the Confederation does have those, and in fact most of their military power is space based, though there's a tendency to favor kinetic energy weapons over directed energy, though they certainly do have many of the railguns that'll launch plasma projectiles.