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Evolution Can't Go Backwards... barring a sufficient application of magic, of course.

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I don't care that some above talk about the energy require to launch the God -Rod. They're masters of magnetism! Maybe they have this giant whole array where they slowly accellerate the rod in a circle until it gets up to this speed. I don't worry about the energy, because the rule of cool will tru...

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My biggest problem with such weapons, is actually that they can be nullified by launching a volley of minimissles to vaporize it. I agree. Instead of firing large, solid hyperkinetic projectiles, I'd probably be cruel and instead fire large, hyperkinetic canisters of sand. This would have three ben...

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Just to nitpick, wouldn't these weapons be KKVs, not RKKVs? They're not going fast enough to be considered relativistic weapons.

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Related to the first question: how would the area be affected by the radiation leaking from the nuke? Slowly growing more and more devoid of life, baring only very scrawny plants and fungi similar to those found around Chernobyl Actually, I should point out that the ecosystem around Chernobyl is ab...

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2) I've read a sci-fi book where these were a part of a planetary trap. Not sure of the author but I think it was Ben Bova. That sounds like the privileged channel weapons (aka 'noach weapons') from Greg Bear's The Anvil of Stars . Of course, implementing the full set of those in PW would be pretty...

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For 100g's, I knew it before, but a simple google search brings it up. Look up vehicle crash information, fatal g force or something similar. For 1,000g's...I do math. Figure an approximate time to cover 3 inches at 100mph (d=vt), then calculate the decelerative force using the time you come up wit...

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They offer no bonuses or penalties beyond the -1 for a moving target, as well as an additional -1 for every increment of 50mph the target is moving at. So that's only a -11 for shooting down the slowest-moving mini-missile there is. Oh, and the "head-sized targets are -3 to hit" rule migh...

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Provided that you have at least one free action remaining in the round, you can shoot at an incoming missile; I personally fail to see how throwing a one-action barrier spell at one of the missiles (that just so happens to be wide enough to catch all of them) is any different. What I find interestin...

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Ale Golem wrote:Will a Laser Designator work with mini missiles?

I don't think they're considered large enough to carry any guidance systems. Which, considering Rifts cybertech, is a bit silly, but...

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funny thing about lasers... they're monochromatic. you can just use a different color for a laser guidance system, filter any others, and not have problems. Of course, you're shining this laser at the target, letting them know exactly what wavelength you're using. So using a different wavelength on...

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I'd have to wonder, honestly, how useful something like semi-active laser homing would be in Rifts, where shooting down incoming missiles is a perfectly feasible tactic for those with purely-human reflexes, and the most prevalent military weapon is the weapons-grade laser. The tip of a LGM is a big ...

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Lasers emit light waves. Electromagnetic radiation. Energy. They're not emitting matter, they're emitting energy that can affect matter. If I understand correctly, it does damage by transferring energy to the electrons of nearby matter, causing molecular bonds to break down. This generates a therma...

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Ultimately it came down to whether or not lasers were "heat-based attacks" in and of themselves, not whether the damage they inflict is due to the thermal effects they cause. As shown on other examples, technically powerful kinetic and electrical attacks ultimately cause thermal damage, b...

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Oooo... A strike-two concession. Technically bullets transfer heat too, but we call them kinetic based attacks and not thermal or heat based. While true enough - all the energy transferred to a target by a bullet eventually becomes heat - thermal effects aren't a bullet's primary method of doing da...

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It kind of says that, but not directly enough to decisively support your argument. Tell ya what, though. Find a good source that outright, directly says that lasers themselves are not "hot" in and of themselves, and that it is their stimulating bombardment of photons against mater that cr...

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You just explained my point, it is the molecules that create the heat not the laser itself. The laser just starts the process. Still speaking in terms of real-world physics, "heat" is the manifestation of the energy transferred by the laser. It's also the means by which a laser would dama...

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Please enlighten us as to which weaponized lasers that you are refering to and the principles of quantum physics that the "heat" is produced by the laser. Again, the laser is not "heat", the reaction to the radiation produced by the laser generates heat. Heat is transferred by a...

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Laser weapons, as written, do not provide for this as they have no recoil and absolutely no time delay from pull to hit. This is a non-argument anyway, as characters, as written, are allowed to dodge laser weapons. Dodging is getting out of the attacker's aimpoint; nothing else makes any sense. Unl...

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Fission is the process by which two atoms, rather than splitting apart, fuse to become a larger atom with some energy being released by the process. it is fundamentally different than fission because rather than emmiting Nutrons, protons, electrons and raw energy (the radiation we associate), it pr...

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Betavoltaic or optoelectric systems don't need magnets or have to use ferrous metals to generate electricity from nuclear reactions. And considering what people are getting upto today with the various carbon nanotube-derivatives, I'd have to wonder if even the wiring in a Rifts mecha would be metal ...

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Magnets don't explode I keep telling people this but the argument rages on..... I wouldn't be so sure about that... As for the exploding fission reactor debate, perhaps Rifts nuke plants are using a sort of advanced gas core fission system. Breaching that would lead to a prompt release of radioacti...

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But as I said earlier Qev, I use Kitsune's adjusted weapon ranges for my Three Galaxies ships. That evens the score as far as range goes. I'm never going to consent to using the ones in the book, especially considering how advanced they are supposed to be. So in my games expect that Protector BB to...

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I always thought that unless the description says it's made of ceramics and plastics, then it's metal and can be effected like any other. Fun Fact: Most kinds of metal are non-magnetic. Well I was never a big fan of Magneto anyway... Of course, even frogs are magnetic , if you use a large enough (a...

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Being canonically indestructible, I doubt you could actually destroy them in this fashion. You could still make a black hole out of them, rendering them inaccessible, though... and creating the galaxy's first RUNE BLACK HOLE. Tee Hee......which would NEVER evaporate. Yeah, thermodynamics would hate...

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Considering that your typical Zentradi destroyer can one-shot any 3G ship (or several) at a range of 200000 miles (assuming it's not using an OP-Field), I think the 3G might be in a bit of trouble.

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if you get enough rune weapons together can you destroy them by creating a black hole? Being canonically indestructible, I doubt you could actually destroy them in this fashion. You could still make a black hole out of them, rendering them inaccessible, though... and creating the galaxy's first RUN...

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"The Cosmic Forge" is technically an alien, right?

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Dr. Doom III wrote:I think they should do no damage. Ever.

Seconded.

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This setting is called "Fading Suns" Sweet, I'm going to have to find a copy of this. Here's a silly question: if you have a Circle of Protection from (let's say) Demons, and there's a demon inside the circle when it's closed, is the demon then protected from demons ( ), or does it get ex...

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All of that said I have had Vampires rip through the hull of a ship in a star system in my game as the party was searching planets for a particular signal. The look on my players faces was priceless. Ahaha, eeeevil. Vampires really aren't the typical sort of thing you'd expect to get attacked by, i...

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Ryogi Shiki, who, in an instant of uncharacteristic clumsiness, trips on her way through the rift and accidentally stabs the Earth to death with her knife...

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Do you allow people to use UV lights to hit a vampire and hurt them? Or does it have to be actual sunlight? If it has to be actual sunlight then it is not a scientific reaction but a mystical one. It is for this reason that I contend it is only sunlight in an atmosphere, outside of an atmosphere it...

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cute... but somehow i think not... I already resolved this conundrum... Iwas just curious what others think... The silver rune is a specific rune, which renders it and the page indestructible. The ink magically disappears from a scroll though, it's not destroyed, it's magically removed to cast the ...

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That's an interesting question, now that I think about it. "Day" really is just a function of the Earth, and not of the Sun. So from that point of view, it makes perfect sense that vampires in space wouldn't need to sleep, as there is no such thing as "Day" or "Night" w...

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If it's actually a railgun, then what the ammunition is made out of doesn't really matter, assuming whatever it is can survive the acceleration and passage through the atmosphere, of course. Each round would need to be housed in its own conductive armature, though, as that's what does all the hard w...

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Kind of a long-term threat, but Photino Birds could be problematic... ??? Phot in o Birds??? I remembered those things instantly the second I saw the name, from a book an old friend of mine told me the 5 min quick story version of like 15 years ago. A.I.R. (As I Recall) they live in stars for a lon...

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They could always be using nuclear isomer batteries, employing a rare metastable state of an isotope of that endlessly useful element, handwavium.

Besides, 'nuclear isomer battery' sounds cooler than either 'fission' and 'fusion'.

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Kind of a long-term threat, but Photino Birds could be problematic...

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I just have this wonderful image in my mind of some poor unarmored slob accidentally nicking his own thumb with his vibroblade, and promptly detonating into a cloud of red mist. I could see metal grille floors being popular in bars in the rougher parts of town.

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Superboy-Prime.

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Can a magic user cast Astral hole whilst he is subject to a bottomless pit spell? I don't see why not... it wouldn't let him escape the bottomless pit, but he could use it to teleport around inside the pocket dimension if for whatever reason he wanted to. Does the Restoration spell restore attribut...

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The Jain nanoplague would probably be pretty awful, as would the Killers from The Forge of God...

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Real-world physics.

Also, false vacuum collapse.

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The Straumli Blight.

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There are NO railguns in Rifts. Just to be techincal there just aren't any railguns in rifts. Railguns use a pair of EM rails to shoot a slug. You can tell by the art that all so-called railguns in rifts aree in fact gauss or tube guns. Its really no big deal, but its really just one of my little p...

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Mark Hall wrote:I'm not positive.

Run with me, here. It's not every day you get a fundamental physical parameter named after you.

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Interesting thought about the nebula of Zavor... Eventually, they'll become so massive that they'll start to collapse under their own gravity. Being indestructible to mundane forces, wouldn't Zavor be incompressible, making 'Zavor matter' degenerate? Of course, if you get enough of them self-gravit...

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Interesting thought about the nebula of Zavor... Eventually, they'll become so massive that they'll start to collapse under their own gravity. Being indestructible to mundane forces, wouldn't Zavor be incompressible, making 'Zavor matter' degenerate? Of course, if you get enough of them self-gravit...

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Interesting thought about the nebula of Zavor... Eventually, they'll become so massive that they'll start to collapse under their own gravity. Being indestructible to mundane forces, wouldn't Zavor be incompressible, making 'Zavor matter' degenerate? Of course, if you get enough of them self-gravit...

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