> spread out into millions of floating pieces that speed around faster than a bullet, ripping random ships on the other side of the world to shreds This isn't

> spread out into millions of floating pieces that speed around faster than a bullet, ripping random ships on the other side of the world to shreds This isn't how debris clouds work. The most-complex ones occur when entirely separate orbits collide were you get an X-shaped (versus cylndricla or conic) debris cloud. But the energies of the collision inputs sharply curtail the orbits and places in said orbits the debris fragments can generally reach.