What's the Biggest Creature in Star Trek?
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The scale of some of the beings in Star Trek are mind boggling, alien jelly fish that are the size of towns, giant snowflakes that eat planetary life and a mushroom network that spans the universe. But what is the single biggest being that Star Trek's Federation classifies as alive?
We'll let's take a look.
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And Janeway stabbed it for coffee. Voyager in a nutshell.
And they solved the problem by shooting it.
In Capt. Janeways defense. I've been tempted to stab someone for coffee. And I live where it's cheap and plentiful so.....
Just another heinous act to add to the list.
That and time paradoxes... and infinitely powerful opponents getting whooped by Janeway (asswhoopings are still that if her bun becomes slightly unfurled)
All y'all talk about Goku vs. Superman... but how about Goku vs. Janeway.
@@gregsmall5939 College students need to get their coffee somehow
You forgot about Kirk's ego.
The largest being not just in our galaxy, but the unknown multitudes of others throughout space
Takei's anus lol...
Went through the whole video waiting for a Ego/ Sex drive joke even as a honorable mention. Could be the subject of another video.
To be included it must fit within the boundaries of the Universe. Kirk's ego is clearly too large to fit.
And that ego most likely is alive and scentient.
The crystalline entity was sentient enough to carry a conversation with Lore.
That is true. But the level of conversation would need to be examined. Lore could have just simulated some form of hunting reflex and directed that way to Enterprise D and colony.
But Lore may have had the time to communicate with it enough to have full blown conversation with it. We'll never. Know
@@shinethief3785 There is the scene where Lore is on the Enterprise, specifically telling the crystalline entity that the Enterprise shields will be down temporarily, and that's when it should attack. That is what makes me think it's sentient enough.
The crystalline entity was an arse
@@will88mph29 Yes it was, which is one more bit of proof of sentience.
@@shinethief3785If it consumed planets inhabitants to feed in mass. Then its a being that for safety either contained or destroyed.
"There's coffee in that nebula"
As a caffeine addict myself, this was the moment I fell in love with Janeway
Aye, that line stuck with me to this day :D
@@mingiasi "get the cheese to sick bay!"
I need coffee to medicate my ADHD, I’d react like she did.
👍🖖
And for some of us that was the moment we realized Janeway is a bad captain.
There is a right way,
a wrong way,
and there is Janeway.
"Isn't the the wrong way?"
"Yeah. But _FASTER!"_
"sometimes you just have to punch your way through" -Janeway
Badum Tissss.
@@TheBlarggle Darn! I was gonna say that...
You missed the pink space protozoa that fell in love with Voyager. One specimen was as big as the ship itself.
The giant space raviolis!! 🍛🍴
The thing that tried to mate with the ship?
Well, at least someone liked Voyager, eh?
The Enterprise-D is far larger than voyager though so it would still fall below the space whale's that are first on the list, but I had the exact same thought as you
The "living nebula" from the Animated Trek episode "One of our Planets is Missing."
You beat me to it...
@@firstcynic92 Yep, me too.
Me 3
This was the basis for the Nucleogenic Cloud Janeway shanked with Voyager to get coffee. Personally I do prefer the original cartoon interpretation of the story.
A few episodes of Voyager where from the Cartoon. Though the cartoon also occasionally borrowed from other works of sci-fi. I do like seeing stories retold in new context, a different crew handles a problem differently. Tuvok didn't mindmeld with Janeway's stabbing victim, yet Spock did meld with the nebula that tried to eat NCC-1701.
Just thought of that and checked out in Netflix. Described as matter energy cloud 800000 miles across and half again as thick. What stuck out for me was the Enterprise refueling in its intestinal track by harvesting antimatter villi .
one could argue that the founders are a large lifeform when the they are in the great link
don't they cover there whole world?
mervin reyes pretty much its rough the size if all the oceans
The Woman Founder pretty much said this, so I agree.
I think they deserve an honorable mention, but the link is still able to separate and become individually distinctive sentient life forms.
@@mervinreyes3008 I don't think so. For one, they were on a dwarf planet to begin with and there was probably only enough of them to form a sea at most
Fluidic space might be a giant organism of which undine live within.
I thought this too but I'm pretty sure fluidic space is outside our universe.
Fluidic space is only known at this point to be solely filled with organic liquid, which doesn't prove that it's alive.
@@musicalhistory4392 but we have evidence of structures within it some remind me of cells and various antibodies and stuff. And Starfleet is pretty bad at detecting life that big ha.
plasmaburndeath I only remember Voyager coming into contact with it once, and they certainly didn’t have time to investigate considering they were battling Species 8472.
@@musicalhistory4392 well Certifiably ingame shows it more from star trek online point of view. Speaking of which thinking about getting back into I have an old red matter account luckily didn't pay for lifetime membership those poor people who did to only find it go free to play had to suck
I think the planet spanning crystal creatures ("ugly bags of mostly water") that were connected deserve an honorable mention
ST:TNG S1 E18 "Home Soil"
i love how i would have had no idea what you were talking about had you not said "ugly bags of mostly water"
thats such a silly yet memorable quote from tng
They were in an inch deep layer of brine. Nothing suggested they were planet wide. And they were a colony of individuals. That's like thinking an ant colony is a single organism.
There is a mycelial colony in the Washington state area that spans the root network of one of the major forests in the region. That colony network is considered my experts to be a single organism.
mushrooms ... can be scary...think of the toxic jungle from nausicaa and the valley of the wind (a brilliant and beautiful anime )
It is, yes, but it exists as a colony organism. They are all interconnected and share certain traits but easily function in discreet units whereby many independent colonies might further migrate, often rejoining the host colony. In my own personal opinion it is probably not reasonable to try and call anything 'one' or 'many' or anything in between the two concepts when the form of life you are describing has such an 'alien' structure. 'Colony' will do for now, but I reckon new vocabulary might be helpful now we have a better understanding of it.
There is also a colony of trees, while smaller than the fungus, all stems share the same DNA and are interconnected, so a good 2nd place after Mr. Mushroom
Also, Paul Stamets is the name of one of the top mycologists alive today
@@HappyBeezerStudios Pando is a large stand of cloned male Quaking Aspens- it occupies ~108 acres (~44 ha) and masses ~6000 tons. The Humongous Fungus (in Oregon, not Washington) spans 3.7 square miles (910 ha) and estimates of its mass vary from 600 to 7,500 tons. There's another slightly smaller one in Michigan, ~91 acres and ~440 tons.
(I Am Not A Giant Organism-ologist. These things just fascinate me)
Those are just the larges organisms known *in North America*. I suspect there are similar giant organisms on other continents that have as yet gone unrecognized.
I’m imagining deep sea gigantism taken to a whole new level in space, also I think it’s cool that space fairing species have been around SO LONG that there are creatures that have seemingly evolved to subsist purely off of their ships, and sometimes crew
Qs Ego
Nah, it's Gul Dukats Ego
And Q's ego stands apart from and outside of the universe, gloatingly smiling, looking in.
The question is, do we measure Dukas ego in units of Kirk, or do we measure Kirks ego in units of Dukat.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Kirk was first so its defiantly in units of kirk. And I think 1 kirk is like 5 light years lolz
@@seanm4095 nah 10 Dukats make 1Q and 10Q make one 1microKirk
82 AU for V’Ger cloud until the Director’s Edition when it was scaled down to 2AU.
To be fair that was a bit much.
The Directors Edition fixed a lot of the problems that the theatrical film had.
either way you are going to have an insane amount of gravitational displacement that our solar system would not survive as it approached...but i still prefer the 82AU's over the less than impressive 2AU participation trophy scale
the book makes it clear that it is 82AU and since it is written by Roddenberry I'm not really sure you can call it beta canon.
The actual V'Ger ship was waaaaay, waaaaay smaller than its surrounding cloud . Otherwise, it could not have entered our solar system without destroying it with its massive gravitational displacement. It's simple, REAL WORLD physics, no arguments 🌌🚀👽
There's that silver mimetic liquid from the "Demon" class planet in Voyager, though that's similarly hard to classify it did seem to be sentient and at least communal.
Similarly there is the Founders' merged gelatinous state from DS9.
"The biggest form of life encountered by starfleet in our universe....
*and Janeway stabbed it for coffee* "
Seems perfectly reasonable to me. #thecoffeisthelife
When Dunkin Donuts and Starbuck's are 70,000 light years away and you need your java fix NOW!!!
I would have thought Tin Man wild have gotten an honorable mention
I was searching the comments for just this question.
Yeah, i agree
Same here. Though not on the list itself, since it appears to be about half the size of E-D's saucer section; somewhere between a Defiant class and a Constitution class in overall dimensions.
love the spaceborne entities in star trek. really interesting concept for aliens.
If you had tried Nelix's 'Even better than coffee substitute' you'd stab space creatures too.
What does God need with a starship?
How big was God??
Infinite, but the didn't meet him....in person.
God is as big as Admiral Hanson ;-)
I don't think the creature who called himself God was any larger than a humanoid.
My personal theory is that he was simply a rogue Cytherian in exile for his criminally malignant nature.
Remember the Cytherians. They were the bearded floating heads (Probably a holographic communication technology) that lived at the center of the galaxy. Instead of travelling on starships, they sent probes throuout the universe that would seek out lifeforms and give them the knowledge to find their homeworld. They spend a few weeks sharing knowledge and sipping tea before sending sending the crew of the Enterprise D on its way.
The way they brought the enterprise D to their location was too similar to how the rogue God creature brought Cybok.
They gave Lt Barkley (the shy and insecure yet somewhat competent engineer) immense technical knowledge, confidence, and a desire to seek them out. They basically fulfilled his personal fantasies as established earlier in the series to encourage him to find them. Then gave him the knowledge to traverse the impossible distance to their homeworld.
Sybok was a Vulcan spiritual radical who was seeking ultimate knowledge and God. So to him this "Cytherian" tempted him with the power of a savior to all who suffer and a chance to meet God and aquire ultimate ascension and nirvana. Again giving him the knowledge to traverse the impossible distance and penetrate the great barrier.
While the majority of Cytherians are most likely peaceful as shown in TNG, we don't know how powerful they really are or how dangerous one could be if given access to a starship to travel the galaxy at impossible speeds bending the wills of other races to their own.
m0r1arty God, turned out to be a trapped Q .
@@jasonhagar1758 beta cannon. God was a Q. Imprisoned there for unknown reason
10:40 - If you think that's confusing, then the (real-life) "Trembling Giant" Pando will blow your mind.
Now do an episode on the SMALLEST sentient biological lifeforms encountered.
The tiny miny crystalline structure. The ones that called humans hey! Those giant ugly water bags out there! Stop killing us!
@@ismata3274Actually the smallest would probably be those 2D creatures the Enterprise-D encountered, I forget the episode
How about that neuropathic slime that is in that Enterprise episode? The one that nearly encompasses a planet?
I had forgotten about that one
Don't the Borg count as a single life form when assimilated?
I was thinking the same thing, perhaps they qualify as a superorganism like an ant colony
possible but their spread all over the place, if they gathered togather the might be a wee bit on the large size
@@shmee123ful could all the borg assemble like the power Rangers and make a giant borg? Maybe to vacuum air from planets?
A hive is still made up of individuals albeit with one mind and such. But yeah I see where you are going. A Borg Cube with a hive queen at its core could be seen that way.
Orginaly perhaps but then for first contact created a queen. So no
I remember there was a bioship in TNG. A friend of Troy was attempting to contact it with his telepathy which was way stronger than normal Betazeds. He liked Data because Data was someone he could learn about like normal people.
I’m pretty sure they called the creature and the episode “Tinman”.
Because Data was Android, he didn't project his emotions like rest of Enterprise crew. Tam called him Comfortable being around him.
I always thought it was kind of odd how with all their technology and scientific knowledge, they couldn't figure out how to make a substance that was similar to caffeine without being habit forming.
They probably did, but it's not like coffee is terribly harmful.
Quark tried
@@sovietdominion Neelix tried too. I'm pretty sure they both failed.😁
You'd be trying the impossible. Stimulants are always habit forming, psychologically if not chemically, because they make us feel better, brighter, more alive. You might as well try to make dry water.
@@AnonEyeMouse Stimulants are not the only answer or really good answer to fatigue. In fact, caffeine doesn't even give you energy. It just blocks melatonin. That's why there is a crash after it leaves the system. B-12, D-3, and Omega-3 coupled with healthy diet, moderate exercise, and proper hydration (which were all well within the capabilities of Voyager to provide even shortly after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant) are far more effective than caffeine. We knew that in the 1990s. Am I supposed to believe they don't know that in the mid-to-late 2300s?
You didn’t mention the sentient cloud Spock mind melded with in the animated series, then again that one was...weird
What about the "Spores" in TOS? They were like the cells of one mega-entity that may have spanned multiple galaxies!
Were they called spores? I thought they were neutrophillike cells floating around, but yes, if the space is like bloodstream or tissue for them, I can't imagine the full body we re floating in. Space can be most probably it's digestive system, with all lifeforms as microflora. For it.
How about those flying parasites from TOS?, we're they not part of something big ?. I always called it " The flying pizza ".
That giant creature that leads you by your desires reminds me of a creature from Greek mythology that lived in the ocean and did the same trick.
There is a 'Your mom!' joke somewhere in that title... ^^
Bitch you beat me to it lol...
So glad the abramsverse did not “reimagine” the planet killer.
Peter capaldi dr who had a wonderful line... “Hunger looks very much like evil from the other end of the cutlery..do you think your bacon sandwich loves you back?”
In "Operation: Annihilate!" they were dealing with a bunch of one-celled organisms that were acting like parts of a large creature.
A few million starfish like creatures? Wouldn't even cover a planet
It doesn't look like you missed anything. You got all the ones I'm familiar with(although V'ger is an iffy) and a couple I hand not consider for size. Well done.
What about Gomtuu, that sentient starship which lost it's crew and ended up with a trill to fly around.
AKA, Tin Man. And an exceptionally gifted Betazoid, not a Trill, ended up flying him around. Tam-something was the Betazoid's name, IIRC. It's a very good episode. The actor who played Tam was excellent. I'd guess Gomtuu was excluded from this list because it's never made clear during the episode how large he was. Just that he was large enough to house a "crew" at one point in his existence.
You meant Tam Eboin, the Betazoid friend of Counselor Troi. Tam was born with empathic abilities already activated. He lost himself in emotions of Gumtuu
Would changelings count? I mean, when they are in the great link, they could be considered one organism, maybe?
2:36 AKA Space Ravioli
"..and Janeway stabbed it for a coffee."
My sister, I feel you.
Technically the Sphere Creature was Uploading it’s knowledge not downloading but meh who cares same difference 😂
The one that voyager went into , thought it was a Wormhole but turned out to be a starship eating creature.... episode called “Bliss”
Isn't that the Pitcher Plant? Only 7 of 9 and Naomi weren't affected because they had no desire to return home to Earth/Alpha Quadrant.
The white web like creature that the NX-01 Enterprise encountered in the episode Vox Sola S1E22. When they returned it to its home planet at the end, T'pol says its all one organism. Looked at least a few kms in each direction. ✌
Still would have only gotten an honorable mention in this list. KM are nothing compared to AU.
@@chrisschembari2486 Maybe rewatch the video. The 1st 3 on the list, space whale, farpoint station and the crystalline entity are all less the 2 KMs. Only the last 2 on the list were measured in AU.
@@laennodyarg absolutely right you are. I was thinking about something else and typed honorable mention when I meant a low rank on the list - which would obviously put it on the list! 😀
How about the Whale Probe (ST4). Honorable mentions to say the least. Much bigger than the dooms day machine / planet killer.
"Most unusual; an unknown form of energy of great power and intelligence, evidently unaware that its transmissions are disruptive."
- Spock
You forgot Sisko's massive balls, a good 500AU in diameter each.
The mere mention of the fungi Messiah Paul Stamets made me love this franchise and this channel even more
Everybody gangsta until the universe suddenly has a cursed baby face
Actually, by definition, the orbit of Earth is only ONE AU, as that's what the term (Astronomical Unit) means, the size of Earth's orbit around the sun. So, V'Ger's cloud was twice that.
What about the dichoronium cloud creature that Kirk encountered? Or the one that tried to attack Q in the episode where he was made a mere mortal? Also, like the doomsday device, V’Ger was a construct (though clearly sentient), so it should be excluded. Finally, what about Gomm’Tu (the living ship/creature in one of the TNG episodes that’s the (rough) shape of an American football)?
The thing that attacks Q is The Calamarain. They show up again in one of those 1990s novels.
Maybe you could do a list of bio ships encountered by Starfleet.
The living nebula that wanted to eat Voyager.
It's in the video as the telepathic pitcher plant
Well, I never checked out all your videos but I wondered if you did anything about the Macrovirus that Voyager encountered.
I’ve always considered this one of the strangest life form ever encountered. When you think about it this must have the strangest genome you can find.
Awesome video !!!
Read the Alan Dean Foster Captain's Logs based very loosely off the dubiously canonical animated series. One of his stories has the Enterprise out in the space beyond the galactic rim at the behest of a superspecies who want him to use some moon-sized gadgets to capture a specimen for their zoo. The thing's some kind of photovore, only molecules thin but with some insane surface area - diameter of a solar system IIRC. Kirk corrals it and starts dragging it back through the energy barrier at the rim, but it's screaming for help the whole time and he barely makes it before bigger versions of the species and an unidentified something else catch up. They shear off at the barrier, but it's clear he caught an infant, the adults were orders of magnitude larger, and the whatever it was that was coming behind them was larger still. Now, a giant molecules-thick space pancake might not equal the volume or even mass of Voyager's nebula-thing, but the parents probably did, and the other thing is wholly undefined. They grow 'em big in the Deeps.
I was thinking about this as well. I couldn't remember what novel it was or where I was remembering it from. I have them all (including those Captain's Logs series) so now I'm going to look. I remember as a kid being freaked out when Spock mentions at the last second something briefly appeared on sensors that was orders of magnitude larger than what they'd captured.
Found it. It was called a Jawanda. There is also no mention of any energy barrier in this novel (Log Eight - The Eye of the Beholder).
"And Janeway stabbed it for coffee." She does love her coffee.
"6;40 "In its belly you will find a new defintiom of pain and suffering as your slowly brokem down over a 1000 years!"
That's the Sarlacc
In one of the early Star Trek books Kirk helped some aliens capture an animal outside of the Milky Way galaxy with the aid of I think it was three moons and then brought it back into the Milky Way galaxy for the alien's zoo .Spock estimated it's size was so thin that it could Encompass the whole Sol solar system.
In one of the Titan novels the crew finds an entire solar system that shows signs of being alive. The system is filled with other living space fauna like space whales and flights of several crystalline entities.
Sounds a little like the World Ship in Andromeda.
"Mushrooms are weird".
*_JOE ROGAN HAS ENTERED THE CHAT_*
Should have included coffee in the cloud Voyager encountered. Would have been a funny nod to her saying "There's coffee in that nebula"
In the Star Trek Titan book series, the intelligence of the crystalline entity was mapped out. It was discovered that they were predatory animals on a level of intelligence closer to that of wolves or dogs.
Also, in the same book series. I don't remember if it was the exact same book, but it could have been. They discovered another life form that was in effect an entire solar system. An entire solar system that was a single life form that these jellyfish entities and crystalline predators danced around and fed off of the way smaller fish feed on a whale.
O'Brien's suffering
2:23 for the LOLs
probably the Koala that have the Universe Balanced on it's back
God damnit Janeway. Watch that cloud that is 7 AUs start looking for Humans to stab for Coffee too. XD
The crystaline entity was able tp communucate with Data's evil brother remember from Generations?
The mycelial network also lies beyond what any well balanced individual would consider canon proper.
I'm surprised you omitted the Delta Quadrant version of the Space Whale that had a large herd. It one "battled" Voyager for dominance.
Beta Content includes mention that Riker found an entire sentient star system, but a few weeks later, Picard discovers an entire GLOBULAR CLUSTER that is a single life-form capable of more advanced Quantum Slipstream travel than the Borg have ever assimilated.
In the Star Trek cartoons there is an episode where the enterprise flies into a large cloud, they figure out it's alive and talk to it.
We shouldn't forget Wesley's little nanite experiment. By now it would have covered an entire planet. Then there's the Enterprise's baby created via the holodek from interlinked nodes from all over the ship.
There was also the planet consuming cloud in TAS, and I would also consider the changeling link to also be a super large life form give or take.
That Nigilum creature is so creepy looking!
I feel like the "Tin Man" organic and sentient vessel should have been included
One of the Canon novels stated that Q's humanoid form was an avatar. Its real form was larger than the Enterprise-D and was alongside the ship, but not visible to eyes or sensors.
Nice touch in using the weird Star Trek definition of "sentient"
DOOMSDAY MACHINE = GIANT SPACE JOINT, change my mind.
It wasn't very big, but I'm surprised you didn't include Tin Man, the sentient, organic starship which called itself Gomtuu.
THAT COFFEE IS MINE!!
*shank*
What about Tin Man? It looks pretty big.
Agreed, I'd put it smaller than the "space jellyfish" from Farpoint.
Carmybel I think it was only about 200 meters if you see the cross section diagram on memory alpha
Iasarith2 Ok I’ll check it out. Thanks for the info.
Not to mention extremely powerful
I seem to remember there was an enormous creature in one of the Star Trek 'LOG' books, but I don't recall the details. I do remember they had to go quite close to a star to keep it from destroying them.
I also recall another massive creature from that series, "One of our Planets is Missing" was the title, and Spock was able to telepathically contact it to save a world.
Another possibility might be the flying parasites from "Operation: Annihilate" (TOS). Although the individual creatures were not physically connected to each other, they nonetheless drew strength from the whole population as a colony creature as they traveled together from star system to star system.
The creature from Next generation episode “Tin Man” was described as being alive. Didn’t see that one on here... did I miss it?
Like he said, he didnt include all creatures on the smaller end of the scale.
Yes. You blinked and missed it.
for comparison, the largest living thing on earth:
More precisely, a specific honey fungus measuring 2.4 miles (3.8 km) across in the Blue Mountains in Oregon is thought to be the largest living organism on Earth.
Fascinating. :-)
To be fair to Janeway, the Voyager shouldn't have been able to cause significant harm to something *that massive*.
That wasn't a Stab wound... that was a Neutrino going through your body.
what about the cloud creature from the animated series episode "One of our planets is missing"
Hi, Adam here just wanted to say, this is a most interesting video Rick.
There were I believe several inferences in DS9 that would include the Changelings/Founders as both individuals and single collective consciousness when part of the Link/Great Collective.
As to the scale, unsure but honorable mention worthy.
2:15 I was just thinking about how the Q could do that when you said it.
pretty sure V-ger's energy field was used to collect data and protect the craft, but the idea of it being incidental is pretty cool. As if it's so powerful, you're just seeing the exhaust, lol Good one :D
ive got a few: 1. "tin man" from tng was just a little smaller than the 1701 D.
2. the changelings could be defined as being a single lifeform while in the great link
3. how about the "silver blood" from the voyager episode "demon" that stuff at lest covered a planet if not being the whole planet itself
4.the borg could be considered a single lifeform. just like when my brain wants to pick up something, and my hand (some distance away) preforms the action.
5. i guess by that logic, any "hive mind" species could be considered one entity, the tholians, species 8472 ect.
anyway, fun video. thanks
I think V'yger should have been put into honorable mentions, as the Voyager 6 probe itself wasn't that big. The ship it was given by that one species was to allow it to fulfill it's programming, but not a part of it. Oh, well...still a great vid! 👍🏾👍🏾
As far as constructs are concerned, you mentioned the planet killer from TOS but not the space probe seen in Star Trek $: The Voyage Home
The Guardian of Forever is a sentient being that extends to every point in Spacetime, can't get much bigger than that.
I had a feeling the space amoeba would score high on this list...just imagine if it had divided and eventually became an even larger creature?....
In Star Trek the animated Series Episode "One of Our Planets is Missing" the Enterprise encounters a cosmic cloud that is alive and is 800,000 kilometers in length and half that size in width.
5:59 You forget how Worf in the first season of TNG foreshadowed the existence of this beast.
Maybe do a video on colony creatures like the Mycelial network, the crystal creatures frome "Home Soil", the Pahvans, and Ari bn Bem?
Recent estimates place Shatner's ego in the vicinity of 10AU (roughly 149,598,073 km). Definitely an honorable mention.
Don't forget the large organism that covered much of its planet in the Enterprise episode, Vox Sola.
Changelings in the Great Link could be classified as a single organism, which means that it would be massive.
Seeing it on this scale, where it stretches from the sun to saturn would make it less of a shanking and more of a bug bite
How powerful are Star Trek phasers and protons in explosive force?
Are they in the hundred gigaton or low teraton range like Star Wars Expanded Universe Turbolasers?