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Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.10.08 11:13:00 -
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 Originally by: Nikolai Nuvolari
Originally by: Kyoko Sakoda
Originally by: Nikolai Nuvolari
Originally by: Murukan
Rail guns work the same way. You going to ban those too?
After being fired, railgun shells don't last terribly long before losing magnetic containment and incinerating themselves.
That's blasters. Rails should theoretically travel forever.
No, I'm talking about railguns.
The charges are filled with ionized plasma. The electrical energy used to fire them disrupts the magnetic field used to contain the plasma within the shell casing, so after being fired, if they don't hit anything, they lose magentic containment and breach the shell casing relatively quickly. My engineer estimates that they completely disintegrate and the plasma dissipates within a few thousand kilometers.
A valiant attempt at an educated post. However, Kyoko is correct in his statement about railguns.
-Railguns use magnetic rails to fire solid chunks of matter at hypersonic speed.
A railgun uses electromagnetism to "fling" a projectile out of its barrel, usually at speeds that most other weapons can't compete with. A true railgun's ammo will travel farthur than a projectile, as the exit velocity of a railgun charge is much faster than a projectile weapon. The ammunition is usually a solid piece of metal. In the case of hybrid ammo, it is a hollowed out chunk of metal loaded with atoms charged in a plasma state. The plasma is containted within an EM field.
-Blasters fire magnetically contained balls of subatomic particles.
This is what you are referring to. A blaster in essense fires a ball of plasma. This plasma is contained within an electromagnetic field. Yes, the field will collapse after sometime, and the subatomic particles that make up a ball of plasma will dissipate into nothing, hence why blasters are short range weapons.
The debate for banning projectile weapons here must apply to railguns as well, as railguns are even more dangerous than projectiles. Even after the plasma contained within a hybrid shell dissipates when fired from a railgun, it then basically turns into a regular projectile shell, travelling at ten times the speed that any autocannon or artillery cannon can launch a shell at. And no, the plasma inside a hybrid shell does not incinerate or otherwise destroy the casing of said shell once the EM field collapses. The atomic particles simply seperate until there is no more "charge". (A bit of railgun info from someone who built a rudimentary one in his garage with a friend using supplies found at your local RadioShack and a lot of salvaged electronic equipment =P)
So you'll not only have to ban and replace all the the Minmatar weapons, but you'll also have to ban all railguns in use, and find a suitable replacement for all those Caldari and Gallente snipers out there.
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