Vorlon Eclipse Planet Killer

The biggest ships in the Vorlon fleet are the Planet Killers, huge starships capable of destroying entire worlds. Based on comparison, they are said to be 42 to 58 km (26-36 miles) long. The first planet known to be hit by a planet killer was called Arcata 7. It was utterly destroyed, reduced to rubble, slag, dust and asteroids, killing the 4 million people who inhabited it.

General characteristics

Armaments - Super Death Ray, Vorlon Death Ray Cannons, Vorlon Flame Beams, Lightning Guns

Defenses - Vorlon Bio-Armor, Vorlon Shields, Vorlon Tractor Beams

Power - Hyperspace Tap (infinite duration)


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Film & Animation

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• babylon
• b5
• vorlon
• empire
• spaceship
• planet
• killer

[Maximal32nd]

In the movie A Call to Arms, a Shadow Planet Killer left behind after the war was taken by the Drakh and brought to bear against Earth. It was later DESTROYED by a pair of Victory class destroyers when they targeted a crucial missile hub used to control the rest of the mechanism.

[QuantumNova]

My favorite ship. The Vorlon Planet killer use Hyperspace tap as a power source . Also it has unlimited firepower. The Super Vorlon DeathRay looks like a huge yellowish green Beam. According to some data I've heard, It can destroy planets bigger than Jupiter. It's a shame B5 has never shown it firing. (Just the charge up sequence.) It's about 1/100th the size of the DeathStar from StarWars.

[Maximal32nd]

@QuantumNova Did you expand the details for this video? I included some of the info you've mentioned and more when I first posted it. Not sure of the exact ratio, but definitely much larger than 1/100th the size of The Death Star. A good example is the B5 episode where a Planet Killer eclipses the sun on Centauri Prime.

[happosai27]

wow the cgi has not aged well at all.. looks like a cutscene from a videogame

[Wolfen443]

It has to be at least the size of the secons Death Star at least.

[Vistico93]

@QuantumNova : This guy discusses it in detail. He seems pretty obsessed about these topics so I accept what he says on that basis alone :-) stardestroyer(dot)net(slash)Em­pire(slash)Essays(slash)Planet­-Killers(dot)html(hashtag)Vorl­on --- (sorry for posting it that way - can't do links in comments)

[DanPhantom89]

@Maximal32nd well, the Death Star is supposed to have a diameter of about 140 kilometers, or something along those lines, meaning the surface area is roughly 61,000 kilometers, as it is a sphere, unlike the Vorlon ship.

[MikeCloud666]

Vorlons should blow up Centaurii Prime.

[TheDarkIllumination]

Wouldnt the jump point for something so massive be so big it would have some kind of destructive effect on the surrounding space?

[PeoplesGeneral]

@QuantumNova There is a sequence of the Battle of Corianna 6 where all sides stopped firing and then separated to 3 areas. This occured after the First Ones destroyed the Vorlon Planet Killer.

Only then did the Shadows use their Planet Killer to surround the Younger Race's fleet. Note that you do not see other ships within the clound except that of the Younger Races. The Vorlons and the Shadows wanted to talk things out with the Younger races and make them choose between the two.

[PeoplesGeneral]

Being that the Vorlon Dreadnaughts are about 1.3km long, yet looked like tiny fighters compared to the size of the Vorlon Planet Killers as shown in the episodes they appeared in... I'd say the Planet Killer should be at least 100km in size.

[QuantumNova]

@kimnice Yes, also if used correctly the Shadow Planet Killer can phase between Hyperspace and real space. That would make it indestructible.

The shadows would have won the Corianna six battle if they weren't asked to leave. Even the "1st ones" could not stop the shadow planet killer at that time. It drained power from all the ships that enter it. :)