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Stitcher
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Posted - 2008.06.23 01:42:00 -
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Okay, here's one for you... how the hell do energy neuts work?
The law of conservation of energy states that the total amount of energy in a contained system - namely, our universe - cannot be reduced. Matter and energy are basically interchangeable, but the sum total amount of energy in the universe, both "free" and tied up as matter, is finite and cannot be decreased or indeed increased by any means.
In other words, it can't be the case that neuts just "destroy" the energy in a ship's capacitor. So... what happens?
I've got two options:
1: the neut somehow relocates the stored energy, maybe by "opening" the closed system, providing a window for the target capacitor energy to be shunted into subspace and out of this universe. The energy spent by the ship activating the neut is used to open the portal necessary for this to happen.
2: the neut forces a malfunction or short-circuit in the target ship's capacitor, either forcing it to "dump" the energy somehow - say through emergency cooling vanes - or else discharging the energy into the structure of the ship (begging the interesting question of how one goes about degaussing a starship).
Any other suggestions? -
Verin "Stitcher" Tarn-Hakatain. |
Uilliam Nebel
24th Imperial Crusade
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Posted - 2008.06.23 02:37:00 -
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My guess, alters the available energy in a core. Kind of like adding water to someones gas tank. Yes watery gas still has the same mass of gas and capacity for energy, just not energy a car can use. So perhaps it alters the energy's wave form or what not in such a way that it is no longer feasible for the ship to use it, and it is passed out of the capacitor with no real benefit. Along the lines of your second option somewhat. / "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do." - Confucius, Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC.) |
Yummy Rocks
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Posted - 2008.06.23 03:09:00 -
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Perhaps the neut causes an energy surge within the ships capacitor and safety overides vent the excess energy to be vented to stop a core overload. Would explain why the firing ship has to use energy aswell to begin the overload. |
White Ronin
Screenout
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Posted - 2008.06.23 04:33:00 -
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Edited by: White Ronin on 23/06/2008 04:34:00 The neutralization of energy can be done in many ways in real life. In a ficitional game your options are endless. Simple solutions: 1) A wavelength counter to that of the stored energy is focused on the ship, literally canceling out a small amount. Like noise canceling earphones only ship to ship. Noise or sound is simply kinetic energy waves in a medium, typically an atmosphere. 2) The beam or ray of the energy neutralizer actually increases the loss of energy due to heat. Again based off a wavelength, the beam increases the loss of energy by converting it to heat which also decreases the conductivity and effectiveness of the capacity itself and the connecting circuits. As heat is resistance, you would have to apply more energy to a hot circuit to achieve the same transmission of electricity vs a cool or colder circuit path. 3) Fairies. REal bummed out, frumpy lazy fairies. To fat to fly, to depressed to care.
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2008.06.23 20:01:00 -
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id imagine its a more scifi term in that it cancels out the energy frequency of the plasma grid. like in startrek when someone makes the ship loose power but the core isnt offline, but the transmission lines arent able to get the power where it needs to go.
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Stitcher
Duty.
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Posted - 2008.06.23 22:52:00 -
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Ah, the whole "wavelength out of phase" argument is a little tricky. Even if you get it perfect, the fact is that what you have is two energy signals whose amplitudes work against each other to produce the effect of a zero sum - which is not the same thing as having no energy at all.
Besides, as I understand it the frequency of an electrical current is only useful for carrying a signal, not for providing energy to perform a task. All that matters to an appliance is that you supply the correct wattage - the wavelength is meaningless.
Hence why you are able to buy PC network adapters that use house power lines - the information is transmitted via frequency modulation in the house wiring current, but doesn't interfere with the operation of any appliances because the wavelength is irrelevant to their function. -
Verin "Stitcher" Tarn-Hakatain. |
White Ronin
Screenout
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Posted - 2008.06.23 22:56:00 -
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Fat frumpy depressed fairies. Works without problem. --------------------------------------------- "There have always been ghosts in the machine . . . random segments of code that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. " |
Stitcher
Duty.
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Posted - 2008.06.23 23:10:00 -
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Edited by: Stitcher on 23/06/2008 23:15:14
The worrying implication of that being that I have, at some point, bolted a faerie emitter to my ship.
I can understand Backdoor Bandit wanting to do that, but I personally am not comfortable riding around with a device capable of producing an infinite stream of fey creatures strapped to my ship. Even if they are wearing cardigans.
EDIT: I'd also like to congratulate you on producing an explanation that is totally bat **** insane. Seriously, this idea is complete and total bowling ball, and the very fact that you were able to think it up casts your sanity into some rather serious doubt.
I'm honestly impressed . -
Verin "Stitcher" Tarn-Hakatain. |
coldkill
Federal Defence Union
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Posted - 2008.06.25 00:36:00 -
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I would theorise that neutralisers work by overloading a ships capacitor, hence the energy requirement, forcing the target ship to expend energy to compensate capacitor load. Coldkill |
ThaMa Gebir
Gallente Raddick Explorations
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Posted - 2008.06.28 16:34:00 -
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Edited by: ThaMa Gebir on 28/06/2008 16:35:02
Originally by: Stitcher
EDIT: I'd also like to congratulate you on producing an explanation that is totally bat **** insane. Seriously, this idea is complete and total bowling ball, and the very fact that you were able to think it up casts your sanity into some rather serious doubt.
I'm honestly impressed .
Oh come on Stitcher, you really think that anyone that considers internet spaceships and their kin along with fantastical modules that assist said serious spaceship in form and function in blowing each other up with clones that effectively stop said "Characters" from dying permanently is actually sane?
My god...
Edit; "Bowling ball". Love it. ----------------------------
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