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It will be random speculations though.

Because most space faring ships are not built for landings.
Its why they create space docks, and space construction yards.

This way the ships doesnt need any of those extra shield, and most importantly rockets for lift off and touch down.

When a ship DOES crash to earth purplefood, the damage ( towards the planet ) will not be from the impact.
The damage will definitely be, from the reactor exploding.

The velocity is important, just ask yourself, why can an insect survive a fall from a sky scraper,
when a human cant survive even 6 stories.

Space Marine Strike Cruisers can land and take off of the Surface, but many Ships of the Line cannot.

Not to mention some large ships could simply end up blowing away the Atmosphere by coming in to hard.

Fun Sci-fi fact. The original idea of the transporters in Star Trek came about because the studio could not think of a way to make the Enterprise land/take off without it looking bad (bad for back then anyway)

Anyway, I believe that the large capital ships of most races were never designed to land. Probably in part as where the hell would you put it? GW ship scale is ridiculously huge. The amount of damage from the thrusters would just be astronmical. Imperial anti-grav tech is not that great, so they couldn't just "magic" it back into space.

Jayden63 wrote:Fun Sci-fi fact. The original idea of the transporters in Star Trek came about because the studio could not think of a way to make the Enterprise land/take off without it looking bad (bad for back then anyway)

Anyway, I believe that the large capital ships of most races were never designed to land. Probably in part as where the hell would you put it? GW ship scale is ridiculously huge. The amount of damage from the thrusters would just be astronmical. Imperial anti-grav tech is not that great, so they couldn't just "magic" it back into space.

But magic = warp

And we always see "warp drive"

Alexzandvar wrote:Space Marine Strike Cruisers can land and take off of the Surface, but many Ships of the Line cannot.

Outside of some BL books, I am pretty sure they can not land. they are not made for it, nor are they made for ground assault or to disembark troops from the ground. They are built to run blockades and toss out pods while giving orbital fire. They are no more made to land then any other light cruiser.


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Jayden63 wrote:

Anyway, I believe that the large capital ships of most races were never designed to land. Probably in part as where the hell would you put it? GW ship scale is ridiculously huge. The amount of damage from the thrusters would just be astronmical. Imperial anti-grav tech is not that great, so they couldn't just "magic" it back into space.

Agreed. The ships even if they could land are massive targets, not made to allow crew to mass disembark from the ground and can't effectively use ship side weapons. They are more effective in orbit.

LunaHound wrote:It will be random speculations though.

Because most space faring ships are not built for landings.
Its why they create space docks, and space construction yards.

This way the ships doesnt need any of those extra shield, and most importantly rockets for lift off and touch down.

When a ship DOES crash to earth purplefood, the damage ( towards the planet ) will not be from the impact.
The damage will definitely be, from the reactor exploding.

The velocity is important, just ask yourself, why can an insect survive a fall from a sky scraper,
when a human cant survive even 6 stories.

Oh yeah of course.
The reactor would cause more damage than the entire of the rest of the ship i would imagine...
I'm not saying it would be able to take off again or even land in a particularly good fashion...
Terminal velocity for an insect (say an ant) is massively different due to the difference in mass. An ant simply doesn't mass enough to gain a terminal velocity that would kill it. I'd imagine a chitin exoskeleton really helps in this case because it's light and, at that level, fairly tough.
Humans on the other hand don't have a light exoskeleton and tend to mass a fair amount more given our size and relative density...
At any rate the terminal velocity of a ship as large as an Imperial Cruiser probably wouldn't be reached in freefall but it would cause a hell of a bang when it landed...

purplefood wrote:

LunaHound wrote:It will be random speculations though.

Because most space faring ships are not built for landings.
Its why they create space docks, and space construction yards.

This way the ships doesnt need any of those extra shield, and most importantly rockets for lift off and touch down.

When a ship DOES crash to earth purplefood, the damage ( towards the planet ) will not be from the impact.
The damage will definitely be, from the reactor exploding.

The velocity is important, just ask yourself, why can an insect survive a fall from a sky scraper,
when a human cant survive even 6 stories.

Oh yeah of course.
The reactor would cause more damage than the entire of the rest of the ship i would imagine...
I'm not saying it would be able to take off again or even land in a particularly good fashion...
Terminal velocity for an insect (say an ant) is massively different due to the difference in mass. An ant simply doesn't mass enough to gain a terminal velocity that would kill it. I'd imagine a chitin exoskeleton really helps in this case because it's light and, at that level, fairly tough.
Humans on the other hand don't have a light exoskeleton and tend to mass a fair amount more given our size and relative density...
At any rate the terminal velocity of a ship as large as an Imperial Cruiser probably wouldn't be reached in freefall but it would cause a hell of a bang when it landed...

That depends on the size of the planet.

And space debris would cause much bigger impacts, it's just that the reactors on imperial ships are magically able to run forever because they have infinite energy, meaning big bang. Tectonic plate shattering bang.