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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:49 pm
by grandmaster z0b
I think most people assume that MDC armor has a layer of padding between the armor and the wearer that insulates against thermal energy.
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:24 pm
by PigLickJF
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
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 1:36 am
by Rahmota
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:40 am
by Braden Campbell
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
Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:21 am
by Rahmota
Thats exactly the essentials of what i was trying to get across.
Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:12 pm
by PigLickJF
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
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:15 am
by Borast
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.
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:18 am
by Borast
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...
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:43 am
by sHaka
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.
