The larger the ship, the greater the effect, so a Nyx might go so far as to tear a part atom by atom, creating a beautiful corona as those atoms dissipate their energy and static charge on the station's shields but doing no actual damage.

That's not how warp drives work, nothing we know of yet can travel faster than the speed of light.

Not sure you realise how much energy something that heavy would have at relativistic speeds. It would destroy the station, the moon it was orbiting, and kill off all life on the planet behind that.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

That link is hilarious.

Hit by Pitch, lol.

Warp drives make things phase through matter. Just look at what happens when you warp through a planet.

Even if microwarp drives work by having you warp for microseconds at a time, you're not actually going at those immense speeds.



And all the what ifs are good :) take a 'simple' question, and turn it up to 11. (I'll build you an Amp that goes to 12 for 20,000 quid, btw)

Not sure you realise how much energy something that heavy would have at relativistic speeds. It would destroy the station, the moon it was orbiting, and kill off all life on the planet behind that.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

For instance, in the Empyrean Age trailer, some guy crashes a Nyx into a station at subwarp speeds, but the station survives relatively intact. If the guy in the Nyx had simply kept his warp drive on for an infinitesimal fraction of a second longer, then the station would have been literally and completely obliterated. Hell, someone could just strap a warp drive onto a missile and destroy any ship that has a large gravity field in one hit. I mean, even a frigate is capable of destroying a planet if it was travelling at a fraction of the speed of light. Warp drive missiles would pretty much obsolete every rule of conventional warfare in EVE, expanding maximum ranges from kilometers to solar systems.

TL;DR - Why can't ships warp into planets, stations, or other ships?

Not really. The Nyx ram was successfully only because the station's shield in that section was sabotaged. Otherwise the Nyx would have bounced off.

Since ships bounce off of each other and off of objects in EVE, it implies that EVE ships are effectively immune to traditional kinetic kill weapons.

As for EVE kinetic damage ammo/weapons, given that we can fire through solid objects, the very limited weapons ranges, and the apparently instantaneous travel speed of hybrids and projectiles, then we can infer that EVE "kinetic" weapons aren't the solid-object-moving-very-very-fast that we think of in the real world. Maybe, instead, EVE weapons use mini-warp tunnels to travel to their target and do damage in some fashion other than via physical impacts and normal space explosions.


Magic.

When it comes to the science of EVE, EVE puts the fiction in "science fiction" while managing to lose most of the science.

Because there are no Kzinti in the game, so their lesson was never learned. Duh.

Warp drive is reactionless (possibly)

That's not how warp drives work, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

That's not how warp drives work, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

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The Theory of Relativity may only be a theory. But it's one which has, so far, survived all observational data. So to discount it would be, umm, silly.


Relativistic physics are somewhat counter intuitive. The theory states (layman's terms. I'm not a physicist):
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, in any reference frame (i.e. no matter that speed you're travelling at, if you measure the speed of light, you'll get the same value. and nothing can move faster than that)

This leads to a couple of interesting effects:
As you get closer to the speed of light, Time passes more slowly for you. (Time Dilation) (it has to, so when you shine a torch, the light doesn't travel faster than any other light)
As you get closer to the speed of light, distance contracts for you.


These do apply at lower speeds, though it's not particularly noticeable. It is enough to be measured though.

The Theory of Relativity may only be a theory. But it's one which has, so far, survived all observational data. So to discount it would be, umm, silly.


Relativistic physics are somewhat counter intuitive. The theory states (layman's terms. I'm not a physicist):
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, in any reference frame (i.e. no matter that speed you're travelling at, if you measure the speed of light, you'll get the same value. and nothing can move faster than that)

This leads to a couple of interesting effects:
As you get closer to the speed of light, Time passes more slowly for you. (Time Dilation) (it has to, so when you shine a torch, the light doesn't travel faster than any other light)
As you get closer to the speed of light, distance contracts for you.


These do apply at lower speeds, though it's not particularly noticeable. It is enough to be measured though.

Maybe, but yes things can travel faster than light.

Because the flux capacitors are cannot stay properly aligned to the power relays in order to transfer the energy of the warp to the opposing ship. However, if you could somehow pull it off, the energy of the warp would simply corrupt the enemy ship rather than destroy it, thus creating a chaos ship which of course would require us sending in a squad of the Emperor's finest in order to cleanse if of its heresies against the God Emperor.

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