Hmmmm. Golf-balls of mass destruction!
300 mega-ton fusion bomb? Are you serious? (GalNet)
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Hmmmm. Golf-balls of mass destruction!
Indeed, this is exactly why Friends Don't Let Friends Use Reactionless Drives In Their Universes. Fortunately for us, such drives don't actually seem to exist in Braben's galaxy. The FSD is described as a variety of Alcubierre drive: it warps space around the ship, but the ship itself is never moving very fast relative to local space. Unfortunately for us, current theory suggests that the energy required to produce such an effect would be well beyond absurd, and the gravitational effects might well spaghettify any nearby planets. But thankfully whatever unobtanium we reverse engineered from the 'goids handwaves right around that difficulty and ensures by fiat that the FSD just cannot be weaponized.
Hutton Orbital.Where would you place a bomb that hurt enough for players to care about a storyline?
Not if you're going to Z'ha'dum.
You know... Its probable that both the creators and the thieves both believe, like myself, that there is no problem that cannot be fixed with a proper application of explosives and also that overkill only ensures success.
Maybe they are designing a fusion drive Coriolis station, with the thruster coming out of the slot...
Considering that the typical planetary base seems to usually be on a moonlet with like 0.05g gravity, I think the bigger issue would be retrieving the superstructure from orbit before the emergency life support runs out.
Reminds me of my silly idea of a fusion blaster where you detonate a fusion bomb in the chamber and funnel the blast out the muzzle.
Only one word: [h=1]Coruscant[/h]
This Galnet story is so 21st century'ish. Luck of imagination! You would think that in the age of instant travel among stars, human would have mastered WMD with anti-matter, or some other exotic material.
That's pretty much exactly what the fluff is for the Yamato Gun on the terran battlecruisers in the original Starcraft, iirc.
My problem with the game is that things like this are just fluff.. commanders have no influence on events, no instigation or solution.. it is just written and stored away like a filler for tabloids.
When can we actually get to steal a bomb, hijack some corporate station and stuff like that?
When can we actually get to steal a bomb, hijack some corporate station and stuff like that?
If you go to Z'ha'dum then you will die.
In any case, if 50MT is enough to level a city, then 300MT is also enough to level a city, so no problem. For the people speculating about planet busting... nowhere near. As in, "Sorry, what bomb? There was a bomb?" The Tunguska event is estimated to have been between 15-30MT, about the same as the Tsara bomb, and it was a relatively small asteroid in geological terms. Chicxulub (of Cretaceous fame) was about 100 MILLION times that. Serious, wouldn't want to be around for it, but in terms of planets, just a scratch. To get into planet busting territory we need to think in terms of the collision that may have created the moon; total energy for that is a ballpark figure, but around 100 times Chicxulub, or around 10 BILLION Tsara bombs or Tunguskas, more than one for every person on Earth.
https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/5c667ef723d8ab6ede7748b2
OK, some fluff about secret research outpost and stuff. And GalNet reports that a 300 mega-ton yield fusion bomb got stolen - "enough to level an entire city"
300 mega-tons? How big are cities in Elite Dangerous?
A reminder, the tsar bomb - the biggest H-bomb ever exploded in real world - had a yield of around 50-60 mega-tons. And that thing would have been enough to level a big city (circle of total destruction of 35 Km).
I understand that bigger is better in story telling, but that is a bit over the top. Even a 30 mega-ton fusion bomb would have been a really scary bomb. 300 mega-tons is a bit of overkill in terms of story telling (in my opinion).
As others have said:
I don't know what the big worry is. Eventually this bomb story will end and the galaxy will not have changed one bit.
You'll be left wondering why you cared about any of it to begin with.