BearersOfSalvation wrote:They're referred to as plasma rectors except for what, one offhand comment from a non-technical character in one book? Fusion power doesn't provide enough energy to move warships from most SF (including all of the ones under discussion) without invoking an outside-of-physics drive, much less operate weapons and shields. Attempting to use it as a limit is just absurd.
So why do people throw the same limit against any other franchise, but not their own?
I'm positing in this thread, not the previous thread. You're apparently trying to continue an argument that you had with other people in another thread with me here, which is just silly.
Strange, better report that someone was using your login in the last thread then.....
Fusion can't produce enough energy to give ships the accelerations shown in SW/ST/40k, much less the weapons and shields. If you limit energy levels to fusion plant outputs, you can't get across a solar system in hours or days, it takes weeks or months, and you can't move in an arbitrary direction the way the ships are shown to, you have to follow planned orbits.
And what's wrong with that?
Then you can't even move ships like the Iom, Star Wars, or Star Trek have without going completely outisde of known physics for your drive, so you're throwing out all of the space travel described in any of the universes, which seems to make any conversation about it pointless. When you're limiting ships to the point that they can't even move like they're shown to do, you're not setting a reasonable upper bound at all.
But then the pro
40K side aren't setting reasonable bounds either.
And 40k ships don't use fusion reactors anyway.
Cheers
Andrew
