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Only if this process takes a very long time, like months or years.
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Oh yeah, that's what I was going for. I mean, stuff like asteroids would take significantly less time to consume but I'm well aware that actual planets and moons are freaking massive. The idea came to me just because the basic idea of my nation is "single system with a bunch of megastructures in it" and megastructures would take ludicrous amounts of resources to create. So what better way to gather them than to just rip apart entire celestial bodies for raw materials?