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jw7007 wrote:What purpose does teleportation technology serve a guy in a plasma reactor.

I'm quite sure the reactors work better if they are sealed vessels, rather than having some sort of door.

Pyriel- wrote:So what about all the mundane terminator suits that dont have this alledged piece of metal in their cruxes?

There is only so much emprah's holy armour to go around, think about all the TDA suits that have been made, currently in use, and will have to be made, thats a lot of fragments.

Darth Bob wrote:Greater Daemons would have straight 10's for their statlines

In 2nd ed this almost did have that

IvanTih wrote:What about resistance to flame weapons

Seems a bit stupid, but the solution to flexibility was plastic hoses on the joints, and less-than-heat-resistant seals on things, also the bloody big vents on the back have to let a lot of stuff in if you jam a flamer nozzle into it!

Flamer weapons fluffwise are fairly good on pre-heresy terminator armor as the vents and hosing is very flammable, leading to an instant intake of burning gas into your lungs and death as you are set on fire and cooked inside your armor.

More to the point, isn't the glow from neon lights from plasma? I'm sure if a glass tube can handle plasma, then thick sheets of armor should be able to! And, yes, the whole melta gun idea has some repa lssies.

Its basically the exact same thing.
The neon light plasma is not as excited/energised and is not as dense. Again, density is everything. A neon light plasma would for instance be like putting a naked hand into zero degree cold air whereas the weapon lpasma would be like putting your hand into zero degrees (the same) water.

Now ask yourself, in what medium of the same temperature will your hand feel the most discomfort, zero degree air or zero degree water?
They are both equally cold and have the same temperature but you cant keep your hand in zero degree water for hours while doing it in air wouldnt bother you at all.
Its because water has a higher density then air.

NOTHING can surive an emersion in straight plasma, though the heat offset from the plasma generator, even inside but not at the core where the Plasma is located, can be handled by something like Terminator armor. But they aren't gonna stick their fingers in plasma. Not even a Dark Angel is that stupid.

Dont mix in real science and physics with some bad startrek movie.
Being immersed in plasma doesnt have to mean anything, there is plasma in space that is millions of degrees hot but barely registers on temperature measuring instruments.

Your average lighting ball that draws bright sparks to where you touch it for example, you could put a fly in one and all it would die of is oxygen starvation.

'Plasma' is merely a state, as is solid, liquid and gas. A plasma reactor would be a very hot, rather dense plasma because presumably you're getting some sort of power out of it. Instant though was some sort of fusion reactor like the sun but if it was hydrogen fusion no form of armour will save you if you're in the reaction chamber. Maybe something a lot cooler.

Plasma weaponry would be even hotter, more focused, and arguably a lot less stable since it doesn't need the reliability over years. Everything has a breaking point.

I always just said to myself that it was because they changed the material it was made of especially for combat. But it's just GW's feth story telling.


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I always just said to myself that it was because they changed the material it was made of especially for combat. But it's just GW's feth story telling.

InfernalMajesty wrote:

It specifically says "It is even said that Terminator armour can withstand the titanic energies at a plasma generator's core, and that this was in fact the armour's original purpose."

Exactly. It is said, not it can. The design may have once been able to withstand a plasma core, but after around fifteen thousand years, stuff just dont work as well as it did.