Ceramus

The Officer examined it for a moment. There were reasons near FTL based weaponry was generally considered ineffective, but it was certainly destructive upon impact, there was no denying that. It had originally been considered for rail gun use, but the plans for installing a miniature FTL drive to rail guns had proven to be non-cost effective. Eventually, aspects of this idea were reused in the design for hardlight weaponry, which the Collective generally considered to be vastly superior to the rail guns of other races and would use to rub in their faces. Making a ball and lobbing it at a planet on the other hand...
There were plenty of things which could go wrong, and it precluded the chance of capturing a planet. The weapon might be averted by enemy defences, such as tractor beams or gravity wells mounted on space stations or star ships, for instance. He transmitted a message again
"Do you plan to cause such mass biosphere destruction on through the usage of 284 802 835 meter per second bombardment on multiple human and Equestrian worlds?" He inquired before continuing "Additional note: Collective forces preparing for offensive."