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<blockquote data-quote="Verec" data-source="post: 3203094" data-attributes="member: 39164">The purpose of HAB bulls&amp;it Defeat munitions is not to destroy magic, but to attack bad physics and design.&nbsp; Things like the EVAs which are held together with quasi-magical fields have some protection against it's effects, although they only get so much leeway.&nbsp; A biological bipedal entity the size of an EVA should collapse under it's own weight if it ever tried to stand up, and all the HAB weapon does is remind it just how much it REALY masses.&nbsp; A energy weapon or railgun suddenly has to DEAL with the heat it produces or melt each and every time it fires.&nbsp; Mecha pilots discover that placing their feet on the ground might not be so good when they are trying to support the weight of a main battle tank on two feet that have a third the total surface area of a tank's treads.&nbsp; And so on.As for the Imperial Ship:&nbsp; It's not a star destroyer(It's too big).&nbsp; It's not a Super Star Destroyer(Well, not really).&nbsp; It's a Star Dreadnought, as much more powerful than a Imperial Star Destroyer than an Yamato or Iowa class Battleship is than a Fletcher class Destroyer.&nbsp; Except that's misleading.&nbsp; A Executor Class Star Dreadnought has twelve times the length, and something like 1000 times the internal volume of an Imperial Star Destroyer.&nbsp; It has something like 900 heavy weapons emplacements compared to the eight on it's smaller relatives.&nbsp; Each of these mounts eight guns.&nbsp; The deciding factor in how fast this ship can destroy a world by melting it's entire surface is HOW FAST IT CAN ORBIT IT.&nbsp; Obviously, this is not a ship powered by anything so mundane as a matter-antimater reactor.&nbsp; It's transforming mass into energy so fast that even neutronium would be a poor fuel source.&nbsp; So it's using exotic hypermatter that stores most of it's mass outside our casual existance.&nbsp; Any good scuttling charge uses all the available fuel to accelerate the destruction of the ship, so I concluded that in the event of a self-destruct being activated, they would touch off as much of the Hypermatter as could be realisticly done.&nbsp; The temporary luminosity of such a detonation could aproach that of a Blue giant star, and probably would melt large ice bodies in the outer solar system quite effectively.For my next trick, I will produce the Spartan Laser and some Tanks.&nbsp; Boy, do I luv those tanks.&nbsp; Super-heavy and otherwise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Verec, post: 3203094, member: 39164"] The purpose of HAB bulls&it Defeat munitions is not to destroy magic, but to attack bad physics and design. Things like the EVAs which are held together with quasi-magical fields have some protection against it's effects, although they only get so much leeway. A biological bipedal entity the size of an EVA should collapse under it's own weight if it ever tried to stand up, and all the HAB weapon does is remind it just how much it REALY masses. A energy weapon or railgun suddenly has to DEAL with the heat it produces or melt each and every time it fires. Mecha pilots discover that placing their feet on the ground might not be so good when they are trying to support the weight of a main battle tank on two feet that have a third the total surface area of a tank's treads. And so on. As for the Imperial Ship: It's not a star destroyer(It's too big). It's not a Super Star Destroyer(Well, not really). It's a Star Dreadnought, as much more powerful than a Imperial Star Destroyer than an Yamato or Iowa class Battleship is than a Fletcher class Destroyer. Except that's misleading. A Executor Class Star Dreadnought has twelve times the length, and something like 1000 times the internal volume of an Imperial Star Destroyer. It has something like 900 heavy weapons emplacements compared to the eight on it's smaller relatives. Each of these mounts eight guns. The deciding factor in how fast this ship can destroy a world by melting it's entire surface is HOW FAST IT CAN ORBIT IT. Obviously, this is not a ship powered by anything so mundane as a matter-antimater reactor. It's transforming mass into energy so fast that even neutronium would be a poor fuel source. So it's using exotic hypermatter that stores most of it's mass outside our casual existance. Any good scuttling charge uses all the available fuel to accelerate the destruction of the ship, so I concluded that in the event of a self-destruct being activated, they would touch off as much of the Hypermatter as could be realisticly done. The temporary luminosity of such a detonation could aproach that of a Blue giant star, and probably would melt large ice bodies in the outer solar system quite effectively. For my next trick, I will produce the Spartan Laser and some Tanks. Boy, do I luv those tanks. Super-heavy and otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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