Why are there no nuclear weapons in Elite?

Chaparral

Chaparral
Daniel Cloudsifter said:
Yes, but I bet surrounding a nuclear warhead in meta alloys, driving it into a Thargoid base, and detonating it would do a nice job of removing that threat. :D
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Yeah - every ship in Elite has a fusion reactor, and we can't figure out how to set off a fusion weapon, when we can drive into the heart of a mother ship and drop one off. In your face inconsistent.

Nuke em' all and let Leto sort them out.
 

Shadowdancer

Shadowdancer
CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost said:
You are right. That's why I mentioned it. In space a nuclear weapon is just a plasma weapon, probably with a lot more mass than the usual plasma accelerator weapon.
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Space is probably the determining factor here. Inside a nice and dense atmosphere, detonating a nuclear weapon will turn a lot of said atmosphere into plasma, not just its core. In space, setting off a 64kg charge (the amount of fissible material in Little Boy) yields, well, under 64kg of plasma plus some change from the delivery mechanism, which may be way less exciting than what you were hoping for :D
 

Muetdhiver

Muetdhiver
It would melt cutter god shields nicely though : a 10kt tactical weapon will deliver 100 million MJ of thermal damage.

Assuming 1% is delivered to the target due to distance and solid angle, it would still be more than enough XD
 

ogrando

ogrando
Nuke missiles like in Battle Star galactica, cool.
In X series games there are nuke missiles, its are more powerfull missile good for very big ships and pirates starbases. But maybe in ED that have a shared universe is not a good idea that guys nuke and destroy stations and capitalship when they want.
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Zer0cool said:
This is purely focused on the in game lore, and not a real world balancing issues.

Elite 1984 had Nova Bombs which were effectively nukes, so what happened?

Would they be considered low end?

If not why aren't we chucking them at Thargoids?

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It would end the movie every time we got "docking denied". :)

Shadowdancer said:
Nuclear weapons are not very exciting in space where everything is trying to kill you with hard radiation anyway, and not useful in close quarters.
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X-Ray and EMP weapons. :)
 

Red Anders

Red Anders
verminstar said:
If one were to judge it based on the tech we have a thousand odd years in the future, chances are we simply forgot how to make them as our species devolved when they took to the stars. Thats based on simple stuff we take fer granted in the world today that simply doesnt exist in the future...its like we stopped making useful stuff fer no apparent reason...like nukes and mobile phones and all the nice things we have today ^
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True but... 20X nukes FTW :D Can you imagine the salt?
 

Vardaugas

Vardaugas
Ensign: "Sir, the enemy has fired nuclear torpedoes at us! What shall we do?"
Captain: "Bridge to engineering. Deploy fuel scoop in 3... 2... 1... "
COVAS: "*fuel scooping*"
 

Iskariot

Iskariot
Zer0cool said:
This is purely focused on the in game lore, and not a real world balancing issues.

Elite 1984 had Nova Bombs which were effectively nukes, so what happened?

Would they be considered low end?

If not why aren't we chucking them at Thargoids?

Discuss...
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Because of multiplayer the game is severely hampered by necessity.
The impossibility of having certain weapons in a multiplayer environment is just one of the limitations.
I don't think not being able to have nova bombs is the biggest problem of the multiplayer plague (I am not a fan of multiplayer :)).
 

Conch

Conch
I dont see why not. Give it a delay and make the explosion as big as that cloud after a goid dies.. put a big blinkin red light on it and set it to an area instead of a ship.

Its not like we need a MOAB.. but small nukes would be awesome.
 

ZAKALWEINC8876

ZAKALWEINC8876
I am old enough to remember the first Elite game. If you had an energy bomb (we called it a tab bomb because tab was the button to activate) and got dragged out of witchspace by 3 Tharg motherships which spawned a shedload of slaved microships, you could press tab.

And a lot but not all Thargs would be toast, and then you had a chance.

Although many many brain cells have been joyously destroyed since then, thats how i remember it, correct me if i am wrong by all means.

o7
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
verminstar said:
If one were to judge it based on the tech we have a thousand odd years in the future, chances are we simply forgot how to make them as our species devolved when they took to the stars. Thats based on simple stuff we take fer granted in the world today that simply doesnt exist in the future...its like we stopped making useful stuff fer no apparent reason...like nukes and mobile phones and all the nice things we have today ^
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Reminds me of Battletech lore, where endless fighting and devastation wrought by multiple sucession wars wiped out knowledge and thrust humanity into a dark age. That, and there was this thing called the Aeres Convention that pretty much prohibited nuking one another. (When has that ever stopped us, though, lol).

It would be interesting if similar things happened in the Elite universe.
 
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