Canute Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 With the laser you are right, but only for "low power" laser. If you pump enough power into the laser, and focus them to very small beam, you will cut through the armor even when the target is rolling fast. And with a bit more, the laser pressure is even strong enough to prevent the hot gas to escape, so a high pressure build up to explode if the surrounding material got heated and weaked . Don't forget even small-medium ships got Giga W power generation, not to speak from bigger ones with Tera Watt of power. Thats a whole different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sable Phoenix Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 With the laser you are right, but only for "low power" laser. If you pump enough power into the laser, and focus them to very small beam, you will cut through the armor even when the target is rolling fast. And with a bit more, the laser pressure is even strong enough to prevent the hot gas to escape, so a high pressure build up to explode if the surrounding material got heated and weaked . Don't forget even small-medium ships got Giga W power generation, not to speak from bigger ones with Tera Watt of power. Thats a whole different. True, but again, the heat buildup for dumping that much power into a laser beam is likely to be as dangerous to the ship firing it as it is to the target taking the hit. Unless you're building the laser into a ferrous asteroid to sink the heat into the surrounding metal, you're going to have real trouble operating that weapon. Of course, this is real universe physics. In Avorion, none of that applies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha393 Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Great that just makes me want thermodynamics more. Ehh, we can do without, can't we? Also I'd just like to throw out there that lasers would be stupidly ineffective/inefficient when dealing with a craft that is for all intents and purposes a spaceborne continent bristling with guns and redundant systems, and a literal mountain of armor plating and energy shield projectors. Who cares if it's in a vacuum and has longer range and blah blah. At the end of the day, it's still going to take more energy than throwing potshots at them with a conventional weapon, or doing something similar to an Archimedes death ray (made viable by modern mirrors and not really having as much of a weight or airflow handicap in space) And of course mirrors to deflect lasers and death rays. Because why not, it can't be too dirty to reflect a laser if there's no dirt. /joke I like giant impractical laser arrays as much as the next guy, but at the end of the day there will almost always be a better alternative. Exceptions for the outright better alternative rule include: glassing beams, energy transfer, anti-missile point defense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordMaddog Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Great that just makes me want thermodynamics more. Ehh, we can do without, can't we? I believe a much better mechanic that would achieve the same effect would be energy management. IE: having weapons use energy from a battery store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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