[quote=@Monochromatic Rainbow]
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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.
[/quote]Well, if you have a Type 1B kind of ship using its full reactor output for a railgun like mechanism then you can be sure that the end result would be a stream of plasma.
personally i have one such idea where a few terajoules of energy is released intantenously in a rail or coil gun system and the acceleration renders the few kilograms of tantalite into a thin stream of superheated plasma traveling at thousands of kilometers per second.
:lol