Glory Device

[edit] Overview

Destroys the ship with a big bang.
If the ship is exploded over a planet, all other races will see that planet.
All Minefields within 50 LYs are swept. It does not cause Nova Barbitics to chain react.
The hyperdimensional stress of all planets within 10 LYs is increased by 150 points. If the hyperdimensional stress is pushed over 1000 the planet may explode. However any base on the planet may still be evacuated as the explosion will not happen before the next turn.
All undocked fighter wings and pods within 10 LYs are destroyed.
Ships within 10 LYs sustain a percentage of hull damage according to the following formula:

  m = mass
  d = percent damaged
  r = distance from the center of the explosion

  r < 10 --> d = (100/m)*(1.1/(r+1))*100
  r > 10 --> d = 0

Amorphous Worms in a base within 10 LYs are being cooked by deadly birthol rays (or whatever they're called) and get instantly turned into 1 unit of Lerchin Spices 1/20 a unit of food and 1/20 a unit of supplies per worm.
There is a limit of 15,000 Amorphous Worms getting cooked by a single glory device per base.
There is a limit of 50,000 'wild' Amorphous Worms getting cooked by a single glory device.
So it is feasible to cook a lot of worms at once if you have several bases with worms within 10 LYs of the exploding ship. Although it would be faster to cook the 'wild' worms, you would have to gather all the Lerchin Spices the hard way.

Stormer ships with an activated Glory Device cannot be attacked (but will blow up, too). This is a racial ability (Host 198).

Combat if Glory Device is not owned by a Stormer (Note: This is a racial ability of the Stormers)
Minefields
Intercept the GD ships and tow them out of range.
Use hyperlathes or enough scalar wave dampers to prevent a planet from blowing up from too much stress.

Some ppl claim that fighter wing can attack and destroy a stormer glory hull (Nefarious, Saber), others says that no vcr or damage will be done to a stormer glory hull.
As the combat immunity has been changed from a hull to a racial ability in Host 198, I wonder if other glory device ships owned by Stormers are also protected or if it only works for Nefarious and Saber owned by a Stormer.