Dagger-Two
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Killar-12 wrote:Dagger-Two wrote:Cat Merc wrote:Aeon Amadi wrote:Cat Merc wrote:Anti Matter...
Look, a single spoon of this stuff can create an explosion that is 10-20 times as strong as the typical fusion weapon.
I don't think it's a good idea to give it to infantry lmao Bit of misunderstanding here. In Eve Online the Gallente/Caldari use Antimatter charges but the entire round isn't comprised of the stuff - just the core. They never actually state how much is in that core either and it's generally assumed by the Eve Online community (the role-playing ones at least) that antimatter rounds are comprised almost entirely of the actual containment with a tiny portion of actual antimatter and that's a logical assumption given that you don't want this stuff just going off in your cargo bay. Good point. Still, less than one billionth of a gram is enough to power a lightbulb for several minutes. Even a tiny tiny core is probably highly destructive. Fun fact: Gallente Doomsday fires 83k tons of Anti Matter.  . Source on the 83k ? *does math* So if 1kg has a theoretical yeild of about 43 megatons.....and it shoots 83 million kilograms... ... That's about a 3.67 petaton yeild .... Thats 830 times more powerful than the meteor impact which wiped out the dinosaurs. Damn And yeah, it's safe to say the amount of antimatter in hybrid charges is small, scaling from mere grams in small charges to potentially several kilograms of compressed plasma in capital sized (1000mm) rounds. That being said, indantry useability is 0. Miniaturizing a hybrid shell to the point you could shoot it from a gun, AND having it contain antimater of all things, the thing would be far too expensive to produce to justify infantry use, especily when traditional explosives are so common. My small hybrid shells cost 20 ISK, Ammo's cheap, ARs/RRs use Hybrid charges
No, plasma rifles and handheld rail weapons do not use anything akin to a hybrid charge.
Plasma rifles like the G75-VLB in dust use a lead round (still called a charge) which consists of a lead pellet with a fuse on it. The vuse vaporizes itself and the lead into the plasma state when activated by the weapon, which is then processed into a comptessed bolt inside the cyclotron, and fired out through superconducting rails.
The rail rifle and rail sniper rifles fire small flechettes.
And a small hybrid shell may not cost much in eve, bur youre also A) dealing in the capsuleer market, and B) talking about fairly large munitions. A containment unit for antimatter would be much easier to make for a 150mm shell, and much more difficult for something smaller than a finger.
That aside, you couldnt fire antimatter out of a plasma rifle anyway since the rounds are solid, and changed to plasma inside the gun. Different metals for the rounds, though, would create different effects. The heavier the metal ( \m/ ) the more dense the resulting plasma, potentially meaning more damage.
Also good to note, blaster-style weapons fire at much greater velocities than rail weapons, but the magnetic 'bottle' surrounding the plasma only lasts for small fractions of a second before dissapating, which is why they have such poor range. |