first an NPC ship, you guys fight about the stats, but it could have an ability : 5% chance to shrink the number of decks on your ship temporarily
upon disabling this ship you get an artifact : planet intensifier , shrinks size of planet by 1 , but increases resources by 2
thoughts ?

First, an NPC that causes my modules to take uninstallation damage because my decks got reduced? No thanks

Second, I'd rather not trade 3 spaces on a planet for +2 resource. There's ways of increasing the resources without giving up any size, I'd prefer to use of of those.

thats a hell of an idea, to have an artifact that gives you the ability to shrink a planet by 1, why not knock the resources down by 1 as well.

some bully keeps on attacking you over and over, take out the ole credit card, pick up some credits, buy a shrinker, look at your planet data base, find his planet and ZAP.
you paid to make it, i paid to shrink it, depending on how i feel about your attacks, i may stop at small, then again i may leave you with a tiny dyson.

now thats a way to make some money now, i would be happy to pay for a few of them.

I would want a tiny Dyson! Think about it! The only one of its kind!

But no. I dislike this idea....(^_^)

I don't like the NPC, but the shrinking idea could be worked with.

I had the idea a while ago for a race which would have a "demolisher" profession. This would reduce the size of a planet by 1. The catch is that if you use it on a very tiny planet, the planet is destroyed - abandoned and removed from everyone's database. Perhaps this would make it more attractive - a free way to abandon a planet.

I like this Idea, but what if ALL the tiny planets and bad planets in the Galaxy were destroyed? Maybe have a new planet randomly generated?

The rules would be that you'd have to own the planet first, or there'd be a cooldown between uses. And more planets can easily be spawned.