I was wondering if the materials used to build shipsin the Eve universe are lighter than our RL counterparts? Now I know it's fiction and all but maybe it's explained somewhere in the Eve lore? For example, a modern Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier comes in at 100 000 tons, the same as an Abaddon battleship but at one quarter the lenght (not to mention volume). So maybe the alloys in Eve are much lighter and at the same time more durable?

Anyway, just a super geeky question

I was wondering if the materials used to build shipsin the Eve universe are lighter than our RL counterparts?

Yeah, EVE volumes and masses are ridiculous.

IIRC most of the ships would float like a hot air balloon if they actually had that little mass.

And all this assumes that after a space of several thousand years, a trip through the eve gate to a new galaxy, the near-destruction of the new colonies when the gate collapsed, independent evolution of the seperated factions, Jove infuence, several major wars, and another few thousand years, that the metric system has remained completely unchanged and is standardized across all factions.

And all this assumes that after a space of several thousand years, a trip through the eve gate to a new galaxy, the near-destruction of the new colonies when the gate collapsed, independent evolution of the seperated factions, Jove infuence, several major wars, and another few thousand years, that the metric system has remained completely unchanged and is standardized across all factions.

The main building block in space structures. A very hard, yet bendable metal. Cannot be used in human habitats due to its instability at atmospheric temperatures. Very common throughout the world.

And all this assumes that after a space of several thousand years, a trip through the eve gate to a new galaxy, the near-destruction of the new colonies when the gate collapsed, independent evolution of the seperated factions, Jove infuence, several major wars, and another few thousand years, that the metric system has remained completely unchanged and is standardized across all factions.

This is the part that bothers me about "physics" in EVE.


So if it becomes unstable at atmospheric temperatures then how does it withstand being hit by all the weapons that generally tend to hit ships' armors?

Now I'll grant that lasers might be "cold" compared to how we understand them (and ignoring the fact that EVE lasers are more like plasma weapons or charged particle emitters than real lasers) given that 80-90f (30-35c) would be enough to make tritanium "unstable," but what about missiles or hybrid weapons? Hell, for that matter some projectile weapon ammo relies on creating miniature nuclear explosions. I don't think I've ever heard of a "cold" nuclear explosion.

This is the part that bothers me about "physics" in EVE.


So if it becomes unstable at atmospheric temperatures then how does it withstand being hit by all the weapons that generally tend to hit ships' armors?

Now I'll grant that lasers might be "cold" compared to how we understand them (and ignoring the fact that EVE lasers are more like plasma weapons or charged particle emitters than real lasers) given that 80-90f (30-35c) would be enough to make tritanium "unstable," but what about missiles or hybrid weapons? Hell, for that matter some projectile weapon ammo relies on creating miniature nuclear explosions. I don't think I've ever heard of a "cold" nuclear explosion.

No, because future material science, not needing to withstand vast amounts of pressure from gravity, and advanced nanotech construction methods.

The armoring is ablative, and not tritanium, IIRC.

Also, a very small nuclear explosion is practically indistinguishable from a certain sized normal explosion (don't ask me how big I don't have access to my data tables)