I was just watching aStargate episode where they supposedly gate through a local star/sun and cause it to shift to the infrared.
Now against a system is it only an Eradani Edict if it takes place against a world / planet? Presumably firing at a freighter doesn't qualify as every privateer representing a system would then doom that system under the Eradani Edict.
If on a lower tech world, like in Shadows of Freedom, one were to introduce plutonium into a star and shift the star to the infrared. Everyone would die with the green plants, eventually, or have to leave. There must be worlds were a star wears out goes red giant or the like and kills the planet. All the planets.
I have know idea if any of this would work but if you snuck in a bit of plutonium into a star would that be an Eradani Edict? How would anyone know? Best thing is it might be reverse able, maybe. Wait till everyone thing is dead or gone, fix the star and you have a new planet with a lot of fertiliser. Infrastructure still in place, setup ready to go.
No real attack on the planet takes place. One missile fired from far out of a system aimed at the big glowy part. Shouldn't be to hard to hit.
