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In Master of Orion 2 you can make use of biological weapons to bombard planets to wipe out any resistance whilst leaving the infrastructure unharmed. This gives you a higher chance to capture tech from the foe.
The issue is that this incurs a large diplomatic penalty because you are commiting a war crime, yet glassing the planet with bombs has no such effect. Neither does ripping it apart with a stellar converter count as a war crime.
Bombs are already a somewhat useless thing to take on your ships if you are playing unpatched, but the effectiveness of bio weapons is further reduced by the fact that certain passive research in the biology tree will halve, quarter or even fully negate their effects.