Energy weapons? my personal answer.

grandmaster z0b · Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:49 pm

I think most people assume that MDC armor has a layer of padding between the armor and the wearer that insulates against thermal energy.

PigLickJF · Unread post by **PigLickJF** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:24 pm

Nagisawa Takumi wrote:Um, you do know that MOST Body Armours are fully enviromental? As in able to survive the extreme temperatures of space? I think that a M.D. Laser may not be QUITE as hot as the sun without protection of an atmosphere...

But I could be wrong.

Actually, you probably are wrong. Even today we can generate laser beams (and plasmas) that exceed the temperature of the surface of the sun, let alone the heat generated by solar radiation from something several light years away in space.

PigLick

Rahmota · Unread post by **Rahmota** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:36 am

The way I do body armor is that it is a multiple layer suit with hard ablative metal or cermaometal coatings to take care of thermal/laser/whatever on the outside, and a thinner superkevlar/gel polymer whatever inner liner to help absorb some of the kinetic/thermal shocks the target (character) gets hit with. That way as the armor keeps getting hit pieces flake off and dents and such get bigger or deeper and eventually the suit is penetrated (or sooner if called shots take out pieces of the suit) and the character inside has a limb removed (if I am gracious) or is dead (If Im not). I hope I am being clear about that.

Braden Campbell · Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:40 am

Sure are. It's called "impact vapourization".

Basically, it means that when laser A hits armour B, molecules of B spread outward, getting in the way of A. These molecules defuse the rest of the laser blast, which is why you aren't cut in half by the first shot from a JA-12.

I never finished high school, but I have my Doctorate in Rubber Science and RPG Design

Rahmota · Unread post by **Rahmota** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:21 am

Thats exactly the essentials of what i was trying to get across.

PigLickJF · Unread post by **PigLickJF** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:12 pm

RPA E Leet wrote:Actually it's about 8 light minutes, which is 298,000,000 meters per second, or roughly 480 billion feet, give or take a few (I'm doing head math afterall).

Well, I may have been off on the exact number, but the point still stands.

PigLick

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:15 am

Nagisawa Takumi wrote:Um, you do know that MOST Body Armours are fully enviromental? As in able to survive the extreme temperatures of space? I think that a M.D. Laser may not be QUITE as hot as the sun without protection of an atmosphere...

But I could be wrong.

ACTUALLY...considering that a regular natural lighting bolt that does SDC damage is 5x hotter than the surface of good old Sol...

An MDC laser would be MANY times hotter than the lightning bolt, which, in turn, is hotter than the sun.

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:18 am

PigLickJF wrote:
RPA E Leet wrote:Actually it's about 8 light minutes, which is 298,000,000 meters per second, or roughly 480 billion feet, give or take a few (I'm doing head math afterall).

Well, I may have been off on the exact number, but the point still stands.

PigLick

Yup...by a factor of atleast 52000 or so...

sHaka · Unread post by **sHaka** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:43 am

Bestarium wrote:I got a C in physics, so I just play it like this:

The laser burns through your heavily damaged armor and instantly vaporizes flesh, bone and organs necessary for keeping you alive. You are now dead.

It doesn't really matter if the wrecked armor is hot or not in my games.

The simple answers are the best. 8-)