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=== Assistant: Nice tweak 😄 — you just made your black hole cannons into one-second “delete spheres” instead of permanent cosmic prob… ===
Nice tweak 😄 — you just made your black hole cannons into one-second “delete spheres” instead of permanent cosmic problems.

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Let’s unpack what that does.

==== For that 1 second, each BH is still: ====
* Extremely massive (asteroid-level mass in a ~25–30 cm radius),
* With insane gravity in a small area,
* Pulling in anything nearby at incredible acceleration.

So during that 1 second:
* Anything close enough to cross the event horizon is just gone (no hair strand left, no splitting, no regen).
* Tidal forces near it will: - Rip monsters apart, - Drag fragments inward, - Crush them into the BH.

Then, after 1 second:
* The BH vanishes (you can imagine it evaporating via some ultra-fast process).
* It stops pulling things in,
* Whatever didn’t get swallowed is left behind.

So each shot is basically:

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==== Your big problem was: ====
* Any leftover matter → new monsters.

Black holes fix that locally:
* Anything actually swallowed in that 1 second: - Leaves no bits in normal space, - So it cannot multiply.

But:
* Anything near the BH that: - Gets stretched, - Blasted, - But doesn’t quite fall in, - Will still be out there as debris → and can multiply.

So:
* Good news: a well-placed BH deletes some portion of the swarm permanently.
* Bad news: it doesn’t erase everything in the area automatically — only what crosses the horizon.

You still need:
* Follow-up cleanup (atomizers, core-hot nukes, lasers) for: - Shrapnel, - Outer fragments, - Stuff that was just outside the pull radius.

==== With 100 black hole cannons, you can: ====

===== - Fire into: - Big combines, - Heavy tank walls, - Dense formations. =====
* For 1 second: - The hole eats the core of that blob.
* Follow up with: - Nukes + atomizers to clear the outer layers and any fragments.

Result:
The heart of each huge formation is actually removed from the game.

===== You can: =====
* Stagger BH shots: - 1 sec here, then another slightly ahead, - Creating a moving gauntlet of temporary gravity traps.
* Combine with: - Mines and seekers that push/ herd the swarm toward the BH zones.

===== If a huge mutant beast or mega-combine gets too close: =====
* Railguns + cannons soften it,
* If it’s still coming: - Drop a 1-second BH right in its path, - Let it get pulled in.

==== The hive mind will quickly learn: ====
* Where BHs tend to appear,
* How big their effective danger radius is,
* How to avoid those zones.

They’ll respond by:
* Keeping key units just outside typical BH drop distances,
* Sending sacrificial monsters to trigger or map BH usage,
* Mutating for: - Better acceleration (quick lateral dodges), - Long-range attacks so they don’t have to come close.

One-second lifetime helps you because:
* The BHs don’t stick around to mess up your own defenses,
* But it also helps them because: - They only have to survive that 1-second window near a BH, - Then the “hole” is gone and they can move through again.

==== Making the black holes last 1 second turns them into: ====
* Short-lived, ultra-lethal traps instead of permanent holes in space.

They’re still amazing tools:
* They truly delete some of the swarm with no chance of splitting or regrowth,
* Great vs dense targets, mega-combines, and high-value clusters.

But because they’re short-lived:
* You can’t just fill the sky with permanent singularities,
* You still need: - Good aim, - Follow-up fire for fragments, - Atomizers to clean up whatever didn’t get eaten in that 1 second.

So they’re now:

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