The orbit keeping space magic engine failed and then it free fall down to Caldari Prime.

if not , why would it fall?

So y'all want some hard sci-fi? Some really realistic stuff?

Truth is all of these things like lasers, railguns, projectile weapons, missile launchers, armor, shields would be completely and utterly pointless to a society capable of light speed and FTL travel.

As soon as a society is capable of attaining light speed travel, a mass traveling at light speed is the be all and end all weapon. AKA a relativistic kill vehicle.

In the face of that, all these other sci-fi space toys are the equivalent of fighting a modern war with an atlatl and a sling. Or maybe just your fists and teeth.

A 1kg mass traveling at C will hit with the impact of 10.75 megatons. To reach the estimated yield of the 65 milion year ago asteroid, a mere 10 million kg (10,000 tonnes) is all that's required.

Imagine several hundred 10 ton projectiles traveling at C that explode like a shrapnel shell a fraction of a second in front of you, breaking into 10,000 one kilogram chunks apiece that continue to also travel at C.

Best of luck even knowing those projectiles are headed in your general direction in the first place, then dodging a few million pieces of 10 megaton speed-of-light space buckshot.

You wouldn't know another starship traveling at C is there until it came to a stop right in front of you.

Likewise with the ammunition it accelerates at you.

Just as the spaceship decelerates from C, it lets loose its payload that continues to travel at C while the spaceship decelerates to sublight speeds.

I have a middle school education on math and science, plus I watched a few episodes of myth busters and Bill Nye The Science Guy, therefor my opinions are just as valid and in my opinion (without explaining how or why) you are completely wrong.

That's the impression I get from some of these responses in this thread.

Since we switched to planet busters, you wouldn't need to bombard a planet with rocks traveling at a significant portion of c. In Eve, anti-matter is mass produced (i.e. AM ammo.) An FTL ship just needs to warp to the planet and start dropping AM bombs/rounds into the atmosphere. This would require much less effort, time, and aiming over kinetic bombardment.

So basicly all the dinosaurs on Caldari Prime will die.

So basicly all the dinosaurs on Caldari Prime will die.

Tell that to the humans that decided to get their collective asses handed to them by some blue smurfs on Pandoria because they choose a direct assault over a perfectly safe orbital bombardment.

While EVE features FTL travel, to size up the universe you need to realize that it features nothing moving through space at anything approaching the speed of light.

EVE features two forms of FTL travel: warping and jumping. Neither involves matter accelerating to or beyond the speed of light. "Warp", as proposed in EVE and several other sci-fi worlds, involves isolating a bubble of space-time around an object and then moving that space-time somewhere else. General Relativity does not impose any speed limits on space, so on this face of it, this seems to be "allowed". However, it is important to understand that the ship itself actually remains stationary in its space-tie "bubble".

Jumping is a different mechanism in EVE and other sci-fi worlds, but it also does not require matter to move through space at non-relativistic speeds. In a nutshell, "jumping" involves connecting two remote parts of space-time together directly. This provides a short cut between those two points, and you can traverse between them at normal speeds and spend less time doing so than light would require to traverse them via another route. This also seems to be allowed by General Relativity, where space is non-Euclidean and the shortest difference between two points is not necessarily a straight line.

That said, scientists are skeptical that either mode of transportation is technically possible. Both ideas, on their face, offer up sufficient paradoxes or such ridiculous energies as to render them either impossible, impractical, or both. But, it's just a game. ;)

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With respect to the titan: If it was blown up from geostationary orbit, some of the mass would be accelerated to escape velocity, while some would be directed into a decaying orbit. You'd have some portions that would never hit the planet, some that would hit the planet soon, and some that would hit the planet later.

A lot would depend on the force of the explosion and how the titan was flung apart.

OK, just putting my 2 bob's worth here, id use SUVAT equations 2 work this out
s = distance (metres, m)
u = initial velocity (metres per second, ms^-1)
v = final velocity (metres per second, ms^-1)
a = acceleration (metres per second squared, ms^-2)
t = time (seconds, s)
the equations as follows
v = u + at
s = ut + 1/2at^2
s = vt - 1/2at^2
v^2 = u^2 + 2as
s = ((u + v)/2)t

OK, lets make a few assumptions,
S= 1,000 k's so its 1,000,000 m
U= 0mps due 2 a standing start, it wasn't falling from the sky, it was flying under power above the planet before we start our equations
V= we don't know yet
A= we can assume its 10.3mps thanks 2 a previous post if he is correct (i hope he is)
T= we don't know how long it took so we will have 2 work it out

S = UT - 1/2AT^2 as we know all but T and V, do the equation to find out T then do one of the others 2 work out V
then we can then work out how much force N (newtons) the titan hit the planet at, its easy enough 2 work that out into megajoules or whatever measurement of energy you want to use after that.
FYI the reason i haven't done the equation 4 you is due 2 the fact that i cant remember how to do said equation, its been 15 years since i did physics in high school and i really cant work it out.... maybe I've drank 2 much booze since then lol.
also there is a equation u can use 2 work out the gravity of both objects and the time it would take for them to come together excluding all other factors, but I'm yet to remember that on so u guys are on ya own from here on.

dam my head hurts now :P
good luck

Darth nenny

edit 2 fix a small error

OK, just putting my 2 bob's worth here, id use SUVAT equations 2 work this out
s = distance (metres, m)
u = initial velocity (metres per second, ms^-1)
v = final velocity (metres per second, ms^-1)
a = acceleration (metres per second squared, ms^-2)
t = time (seconds, s)
the equations as follows
v = u + at
s = ut + 1/2at^2
s = vt - 1/2at^2
v^2 = u^2 + 2as
s = ((u + v)/2)t

OK, lets make a few assumptions,
S= 1,000 k's so its 1,000,000 m
U= 0mps due 2 a standing start, it wasn't falling from the sky, it was flying under power above the planet before we start our equations
V= we don't know yet
A= we can assume its 10.3mps thanks 2 a previous post if he is correct (i hope he is)
T= we don't know how long it took so we will have 2 work it out

S = UT - 1/2AT^2 as we know all but T and V, do the equation to find out T then do one of the others 2 work out V
then we can then work out how much force N (newtons) the titan hit the planet at, its easy enough 2 work that out into megajoules or whatever measurement of energy you want to use after that.
FYI the reason i haven't done the equation 4 you is due 2 the fact that i cant remember how to do said equation, its been 15 years since i did physics in high school and i really cant work it out.... maybe I've drank 2 much booze since then lol.
also there is a equation u can use 2 work out the gravity of both objects and the time it would take for them to come together excluding all other factors, but I'm yet to remember that on so u guys are on ya own from here on.

dam my head hurts now :P
good luck

Darth nenny

edit 2 fix a small error

So y'all want some hard sci-fi? Some really realistic stuff?

Truth is all of these things like lasers, railguns, projectile weapons, missile launchers, armor, shields would be completely and utterly pointless to a society capable of light speed and FTL travel.

As soon as a society is capable of attaining light speed travel, a mass traveling at light speed is the be all and end all weapon. AKA a relativistic kill vehicle.

In the face of that, all these other sci-fi space toys are the equivalent of fighting a modern war with an atlatl and a sling. Or maybe just your fists and teeth.

A 1kg mass traveling at C will hit with the impact of 10.75 megatons. To reach the estimated yield of the 65 milion year ago asteroid, a mere 10 million kg (10,000 tonnes) is all that's required.