Re: Nukes and such.
Josh Yuan (jjyuan@yahoo.com)
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 19:57:44 -0400
Here is my 2 cent about the nukes.
I think they are using nukes in Space.
from the episode where the nuke attack on Westerland, the Prince's
assistant said something about using Nukes on planets is tabooed since the
time of the 13 day war when humanity almost nuke ourselves into extinction.
No on nukes in space.
I think all missiles in space combat in LoGH are nukes.
1) From some of the battle scents, there are instances where a small
imperial gun boat was able to destory a FPA Destoryer with a single missile.
2) At the distances the battles are occuring normal missiles just don't
have the energy to do damage unless a direct hit.
From another battle scene. I think this is the one where one of
Rienhard's commanders was fighting the second in command on the noble side.
The
other prince guy. Anyway, I remember he said something to the line,
"don't fire til you reach effective range of 2 million km."(For the
particlebeams/lasers).
If the combat range is at such great distances, a single nuke would only
have enough energy to destory one or maybe 2 ship at once.
Anyway, I found that the old sci-fi RPG game TRAVELLERS/MEGA
TRAVELLER/TRAVELLER "The New Era" have weapon ranges and effects similar to
what I seen in the anime version. If you could find them, I think the
company went bankrupt.
At 22:05 10/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> 1) Hard radiation from a nuclear blast would be deadlyat between
>> close and medium ranges - no atmosphere to stop the radiation pulse,
>> so even the "light" stuff would go a long way. Gamma rays don't stop
>> for much of anything anyways, so they'd be a killer no matter what.
>
>Any real starship would have to have massive amounts of radiation
>shielding anyway, or the crew would die the first time they happened to be
>in-system and the sun had a bad flare. This is one of the major problems
>facing any manned Mars missions right now, actually.
>
>There's a really tense scene covering that issue in Kim Stanley Robinson's
>Mars trilogy (highly recommended, btw)... and I should really stop with
>the non sequitors. ;)
>
>The whole contact range things is also affected here -- there's obviously
>no fallout in space, either.
>
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