Dartz Wrote:Wait a minute. 5 grammes instead of 5 kilograms? That's like the BB gun from hell. It's firing a ball bearing if it's firing anything more than a cloud of plasma.
Whipple shielding should stop the remaining fragments anyway after it gets lased. Depending on the power focused onto it, it should either deflect, disintigrate into little grains of sand that Whipple shielding will stop, or it'll go spinning wildly out of control.
It is targeting a construction site. The base is designed to be placed below a thick sheet of ice on Pan, so its not that well hardened to safe weight. And even with a Whipple shield you need to deal with the incoming energy.
Cobalt Greywalker Wrote:I got away with Mach 1000 (or 0.1% lightspeed) because virtually anything that can move (including The Island a quick Fenwiki walk reveals) can either pace or outrun a rail cannon bolt. It leads to a comparitively powerful weapon against slow (relatively) targets at close range. Anything that can't dodge is either dead anyway or so big it'll take more than a rail cannon bolt.The idea behind the weapon is more like a 'very long range sniper' weapon. Lots of effort with only a moderate effect, but difficult to detect before its too late and fast enough to be fired from far away in a reasonable timeframe. Its also not just a 'random Mad' weapon, even if this is not clear at the current state of the story.
Quote:However, that's distracting from the story. Have you considered a 'piece of space junk' caught in Saturn's gravity, with the Mad device giving the 'Space Junk' a push?Wouldn't work with the Fen (in this case Catgirl Industries) keeping an eye on them. They would see the space junk and capture it long before it hits the moon.