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Originally Posted by HorseSoldier
And not just as even strategic level ortillery. In a sci-fi setting with FLT drives there's generally some way to work the physics to turn an asteroid into an extinction level event for a habitable planet. Either slam the asteroid into the planet at high fraction C velocities or for "jump" sort of systems, materialize one or more rocks the size of Delaware or larger on fault lines.
The fact that Traveler 2300/2300AD's FTL system seems expressly written to preclude that sort of thing makes me certain someone started talking about it during the Great Game they played to get that setting's backstory done.
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This reminds me of the books "Freehold" and "The Weapon" by Michael Z. Williamson. Good books, if you haven't read them I recommend doing so.
Without spoiling too much of it, one of the only free planets humanity has is fighting a war for their very existence against the UN. In addition to special forces infiltrator teams that wreak havoc on Earth, the resisting planet sends some FTL shuttles to the Sol system, gets them in an Earth orbit, and then jumps them into the surface of the planet. Much havoc was wreaked, much hate and discontent spread.