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Originally Posted by Elricaltovilla
I think its fine to hand wave a lot of that stuff by saying a wizard did it, so long as you understand the physics behind what you're hand waving.
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Well, in this case a god did it, but yes I understand. And I do know the physics I will - to a point at least - be violating horribly later.
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Originally Posted by Elricaltovilla
But with regards to the tech level of the relativistic weapons and lasers? They are beyond our current capability.
We can make lasers, but not well enough to weaponize them here or in space. We can make gauss cannons, but they are purely experimental and unlikely to be deployed for decades.
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I would argue that yes, we can - or we
could - if the powers that be decided that it was required on the lasers front. I know it's not simply a matter of power - in all honesty I probably should have asked for particle weaponry instead if I wanted to use that argument (although I would have had to dance very carefully around the miniaturization issue, as well as a few others). But I am of the opinion that if humanity put its mind to it, we could weaponize lasers - at least in space - quite quickly. And the problem wouldn't be the theory. It would be the infrastructure and scale of such a project - but still possible comparing its size to others.
As for railguns - which are
not and never will be guass cannons (guass weapons are just a fancy name for coilguns, which operate on totally different princibles to railguns) - we have them working. Yes, they're experimental. But we've had numerous known test firings of models ranging up to 33 MJ.
For the ones on the
Halcyon, I'm calling Artifact on the lasers and railgun rails (to prevent them subliming when we fire), and Legendary Concept for power.
Again, this is all vastly simplified, but I hope it gets across the basics.