When you need to call down the thunder to deal with those pesky biters, launch a rocket with an ion cannon into orbit and show the bugs who's boss.
Update for Factorio 2.1
Does this mod support quality? If so, how does it interact with quality levels? I'd like to know if it's worth attempting to upcycle my ion cannons before I start.
Also when playing without Space Age enabled, I don't get any ion cannons when launching. If that's intentional, I'd recommend making Space Age a required dependency.
For some reason, my game version won't show me 3.8.6 - all I see is 3.8.5 and I don't have the option to update it past that. Did you make 3.8.6 for the experimental branch?
Edit: Just checked the dependencies and yeah, 3.8.6 was made for experimental. Guess I'll have to wait until the stable branch updates.