"King Sombra of the Umbrum Star Empire, you may consider the following:



1] Your fleets' all-out invasions of civilized space constitutes as an undeclared war of aggression, and would be treated with as much due courtesy as your forces had treated conquered worlds and systems in our past conflicts.



2] You have underestimated the sensibility of the various interstellar powers that you are seeking to conquer. Even as your forces push deeper into civilized space, the current galactic powers had already put aside their differences and launched a unified counterattack into your Star Empire, the defenses of which had now been stripped bare to fill in your ranks.



3] You have arrived with your personal armada to seize THIS particular uninhabited system, knowing that an ancient precursor 'Star Sphere' has recently been discovered here. You think you could harvest the energy and matter of the star it envelopes, to turn your war machine into an unstoppable engine of conquest, but that is not its actual function.



4] We have found, deciphered and activated the 'Star Sphere''s primary system. It is not a stellar-scale energy and industrial production facility, but a star-powered planet-destroying weapon of mass destruction with an effective range of at least one thousand light-years.



5] The 'Sunbeam' we had just fired will come into contact of you and your armada within the next few moments. You may dispense with any surrenders, escapes or defiant last words; there will be no time for them.



That is all."



--- Princess Twilight Sparkle of the Equestrian Star Commonwealth to King Sombra of the invading Umbrum Star Empire. True to her words, the sunbeam, aimed and fired upon the incoming Umbrum space armada at a time and angle that will avoid destroying other inhabited/inhabitable worlds in its path, would vaporize King Sombra and his entire personal space armada of 50,000 vessels moments later, ending the Third Umbrum War a mere ten days after it began.