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A Whipple shield is not magic. 5gram projectile moving at ~18000km/s for example will collapse it and at best still deform the hull, at worst punch through anyways now as super heated plasma. Can't Reach those speeds in outsider? This is the velocity off modern day gunpowder weapons vs a Loroi fleet...

If the Emitter was actually millions of independent emitters/lens and each lens was controlled by dielectric substrate it would be very simple and reliable in function compared to mechanical aiming. Such a system real advantage is not its reduced chance of getting knocked out by a single hit which i...

Well you appear to be right. Effectively duct taping 6 heavy lasers together would produce a far better weapon range/damage if they acted as a single laser with matched wavelengths and converged on target. Not as good as having a dedicated Emitter/Lens but vastly better then particle weapon spinal m...

Outsider Terran Heavy laser. Lets say the Turret has a 4m wide lens and wavelength of 2.23e-7 m. Laser at 50,000km does 1 damage and a beam radius of 3.4m. Increase emitter/lens width to 50m by making it a spinal mounted gun and not a turret weapon while its total energy output is exactly the same. ...

Well its not the length thats important its the width of the Emitter. Loroi seem to have Gamma lasers due to the small size of the point defense lasers emitters/lens and there range. Battlecruiser/Cruiser is the first Terran ship large enough to have a decent ranged UV laser by a spinal mounted emit...

Well apparently I should have just gone with a big laser. So messing around with energy numbers. A Terran Cruiser has 6 heavy railguns, they fire a projectile with 16000000 MJ of energy every 60s so even assuming 100% efficiency this gives us a min amount of energy the ship can provide of 16000000*6...

Actually I was talking to a guy from CERN on hardscifi discord a few days ago. Think it deserves its own topic so I will continue this conversation there. But the gist is. Its easier to accelerate smaller objects then it is to accelerate large projectiles to large energy levels, peak field strength ...

Thats the main engines which you have stated is directional and the ships are slow to turn... why I was asking what their maneuvering thrust is. I'm trying to work out effective range for high velocity bust railguns using hydrogen pellets for a fleet battle sim. As the fleets are closing on each oth...

Ahh what? 15g has a displacement of 73.5m over 1 second, velocity is relative and completely irrelevant, a ship capable of thrust at 15g in any direction will have a sphere of uncertainty with a radius of 73.5m over its previously predicted location. That holds true if its moving at half the speed o...

Actually thought your ships used reactionless thrust for some reason so the mains worked as good in any direction and the "engine" nozzles was just for heat dissipation on Umiak and Loroi ships. With those turn rates seems the mains would not do much to help avoid volley fire thats bracketing the ar...

How does acceleration as shown on the insider ship pages break down for the ships. If it says 27g is that any direction or only a direction the main engines can push, if its only the main engines whats the average acceleration of the maneuvering thrusters? Also what is the speed of rotation, are the...

They are stated as turrets not spinal mount. Many Terran vessels house weapons in turrets with multiple mounts; in the entries below, "04x2" indicates four twin turrets, with a total of 8 weapon mounts. The big turrets are the lasers, the little side turret is the heavy dual and single mass drivers....

The peak field strengths required ARE alike, or actually less for the fusion chamber. A firing chamber 20m across can contain 100mt fusion reaction easily using the same level of technology behind the Terran Railguns. Accelerating a couple hundred kg of inert projectile is nothing at all like confin...

Youtube has quite a few laser levitation videos using cheap laser systems at home. From dust to graphite from a pencil to tiny diamonds. Sprinkle the tiny dust/lint/graphite particles through the beam and some will get trapped and you can move the laser around with them trapped inside. If you can mo...

All neutral plasma is "quasi neutral" the laser would effect a Casaba Howitzer beam in this regard just fine. I got a second opinion. Gradient pressure isn't theory, you can pick up a speck of graphite from a pencil with a decent laser pointer at home. hi hi First of all, PROCSIMA is still really hy...

Which has a overall neutral charge, Casaba fusion pumped particle weapon produces quasi neutral plasma.

Arioch wrote:The PROCSIMA concept requires a neutral particle beam. The output of a nuclear shaped charge is a jet of ionized plasma.

Your right, its only half of a PROCSIMA system(ok its not PROCSIMA at all but the laser waveguide is valid), the other half is the laser array circling the output aperture. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/UB1A9bIChkSk2ATcrkwgYJ2QKRycClmh7A_bm_Qw-FX8VdQ1_ayVhuJMM9zr88oaO5ERtXMEGNI3XLmaowhuIphi9s3Xf...

Casaba Howitzer has almost no beam divergence. A secondary laser is used as the waveguide instead of trying to do it all with magnetic fields. Yep its a real thing https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/PROCSIMA/ This also makes Arioch "waveguide" technology actually ...

You know I have no idea how I managed to do that... I even ran numbers twice to make sure... :?: :roll: My understanding. Beam angle is the total angle measured. Beam deviation is half the angle taken from the vertical. I have found divergence being used to mean both but SDI paper states beam angle ...

Extending shields is a bad idea. Casaba is 1-2ms pulse moving at 10000km/s. Assuming a perfect spheric shield 2km in diameter around the Tempest, your extending the absorption time by 0.1ms but increasing the 2d surface area by 28 times. Shields 2km in diameter need to absorb 12012 damage worth of e...