' Wrote:Some LNS got destroyed. Either it was some kind of distraction during Osiris hijacking, Order targetting infected LNS or some nomad action. Never explained but it was blamed on Order.
Everything against Liberty is blamed on The Order in the old days, and today in some degree.
I do not exclude that Order actualy could do that. What faction would have access to Area 21 that time? Navy... LSF... Order... nomads and maybe RM. And Liberty blowing it's own sounds weird.
Maybe the Nomad infested command got some ships in the area for training, while one had a Anti-matter WMD on board, instant carnage on a large section of the fleet.
And it will stay that way. What happened with Orillion and Order before (Cincunatus), during and a bit after (how they found Toledo?) hijacking Osiris is black hole.
' Wrote:So I just remembered an infocard about anti-matter:
Does anti-matter weaponry exist in the Houses? Or is it a form of power, though the infocard shows that the local terrorists want it for its raw explosive power.
Would anti-matter weaponry be like today's version of nuclear arms? Too powerful and too scary to use, but essential for security?
Though, the current state of affairs would point to it being not so much.
Nansei's primary purpose is the perfection of antimatter power, using small amounts of antimatter for weapons is relatively easy compared to a working, reliable reactor.
I am working on something about anti-matter at the moment actually.
[color=#FFFFFF]People just need to be creative for RP WMDs. Think Mox bombs, nukes, antimatter, asteroid bombing, Cardamine dirty warheads, raining credit cards.
But I believe the discussion is about FL/Disco pre-written storyline and back-story not whether players can implement it or not. I might be wrong however
chemical-weaponry, nanite-nomnomnom-swarms, Von Neuman berserker drones, infection of bio-sphere with non native bacterias and viruses and my favorite: small projectile given a near-luminal (or at least very high) speed (railgun?) and colission course. "Vanilia" Nukes are too streamline. Back on topic I believe houses are capable of easy production of anti-matter but they can't get any significant ammounts of it.
Other than for potential one-shot planetbusting, why would anyone screw around with anti-matter? You have no need whatsoever to use it on a planet. You have no need for nukes on a planet, even. He that controls the orbitals, controls the planet.
SNAC's for anti-ship combat, sure. Something that can cause a huge amount of damage if it's a direct hit. Heck, in space with the poor thermal transfer, even missing a ship by 500 meters with a nuke pretty much means you wasted a nuke. (Presuming the ship was hardened against EMP.) You have no atmosphere or ground to carry the thermal effects like on a planet.
And as I said, once you have flying crowbars, you don't need nukes. (Plus that takes care of that pesky radiation issue, too.)
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
A nuke will be pretty devastating in space. Indeed it will not have massive blastwave but the heatwave and the radioactive rays are still there and utterly devastating. The principles of hear radiation work in space as demostrated by the radiators in the shuttle orbiter's cargo bay doors. Another way of understanding a nuke in space; at the moment of the explosion the nuclear bomb is basically a microscopic sun the temperature of the fireball is even similar to the temperature on the surface of the sun ~6500 Kelvins. While it does not have the enormous heat radiating are as the sun the nuke will still pretty much melt everything away
Now considering that 50% is blast 35% is thermal radiation made up of a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum, including infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light and some soft x-ray emitted at the time of the explosion and 15% as nuclear radiation including 5% as initial ionizing radiation consisting chiefly of neutrons and gamma rays emitted within the first minute after detonation and 10% as residual nuclear radiation. Now crossing out the things that will occur in space we can conclude that a nuclear weapon has got the 40% of its capacity in space.