Santiak
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2016.10.19 01:10:20 -
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Vo'rian Eumenes wrote:CCP Myrkur wrote:[quote=Bienator II]... Also, these explosions are not racial, but that doesn't mean we can't play with that where we want to, as the system can support it, we just feel this is a better start. We did however decide to go with racially colored explosions for the titans, just because as the pinnacle of ship size, that's pretty insanely epically cool.
[...] B1. The idea of racial explosion color seems nice if there is lore to support it, but I am not that familiar with the lore so I can't comment on that. [...]
B: I imagine some technobabble could be implemented about the distinct colouration (or perhaps even process?) of explosions, based on the reactor unit used (at least for T2 hulls)?
E.g.: - Antimatter Reactors (Amarr) cause the ship to explode in a blinding off-white light as antimatter escapes and interacts with matter, releasing absurd amounts of energy, generating the blinding light.
- Nuclear Reactors (Minmatar) run amok, generating enough heat to ignite the in-ship atmosphere, mixing with the fernite (we assume this is akin to ferrite) to produce a deep orange/red flame.
- Fusion Reactors (Gallente) breach, causing the magnetic field keeping the plasma in place to whip around the inside of the hull, eventually lacerating and tearing into the Ion Thruster units before collapsing completely. The explosion is a mix of plasma, residual magnetic waves ionizing oxygen (fuel/atmosphere), and fermionic condensate from the thrusters, resulting in a green/blue-ish explosion.
- Graviton Reactors (Caldari) fail catastrophically, causing a wave of gravity to tear through the hull of the ship, crushing and ripping apart the titanium diboride of the hull as it goes. The rapid repulsion of internal atmosphere leaves little flame in the resulting explosion, with only the shredded hull - the dust and debrif thrown away as well as the bits caught in residual gravity pockets - are thrown clear, causing a grey-ish explosion.
Of course, it could then be argued that only hulls that specifically used the reactors when manufactured would have these colourations, leaving T1 ships with the "standard" type(s).
And of course, variations could arguably be explained by one or more steps in the explosion not occuring (or other steps taking place): - Antimatter: 1. Reactor doesn't fail completely at first, causing a bright light to tear through the hull first, "cracking and slicing" the hull open. 2. The explosion catches the EM pulse generator and Tesseract capacitor units first, causing arching electricity to jump across the hull pre- and post-explosion.
- Nuclear: 1. Atmosphere doesn't reach ignition temperatures, but hull does, causing it to become red-hot before bursting apart. 2. The initial explosion breaches the deflection shield emitter, causing it to polarize and invert, resulting in a much more violent explosion that leaves somewhat less atmosphere to burn in the explosion, but where debris from the hull is propelled at greater speeds.
- Fusion: 1. The magnetic field falters but doesn't fail completely, causing a slower leak of plasma into the atmosphere, the interaction converting the atmosphere itself to plasma, before the hull fails entirely, resulting in a greener and more "liquid" explosion. 2. The magnetic field fails critically, causing the torus (again, assumption that they use magnetic confinement like this) of the reactor to snake randomly throughout - and outside - the hull, resulting in the explosion being accompanied by a "fountain" of plasma eating its way across the hull, like a worm in an apple.
- Graviton: 1. The reactor supercharges, crushing the hull rather than repulsing it (think miniature black-hole, but not really), causing the hull to falter under its own weight, ever, ever, ever so slightly bending the light around it in place of an explosion. 2. The sustained shield emitter maintains function long enough for the graviton pulse from the generator to be caught inside of it, causing the debris to hurl around inside momentarily before it too gives way, resulting in an explosion that contains larger chunks of debris, that in turn are hurled along more curving trajectories from the hull itself, rather than simply perpendicular to it.
Either way, I do agree some Empire-specific colouration would be a cool addition, but I also understand completely that they want to get "the basics" down before they start thinking about that, as Myrkur explained. :) |