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[Archereon]

Phaedon wrote...

Well, here's what the Codex says about that:

A mass accelerator propels a solid metal slug using precisely-controlled electromagnetic attraction and repulsion. The slug is designed to squash or shatter on impact, increasing the energy it transfers to the target. If this were not the case, it would simply punch a hole right through, doing minimal damage.
Accelerator design was revolutionized by element zero. A slug lightened by a mass effect field can be accelerated to greater speeds, permitting projectile velocities that were previously unattainable. If accelerated to a high enough velocity, a simple paint chip can impact with the same destructive force as a nuclear weapon. However, mass accelerators produce recoil equal to their impact energy. This is mitigated somewhat by the mass effect fields that rounds are suspended within, but weapon recoil is still the prime limiting factor on slug velocity.

The problem with that is that, while you can accelerate the slug to a greater speed in an ME field, your mass goes down, and your kinetic energy stays the same.  While Bioware put more effort into ME science than most science fiction game devs do, even they make mistakes. 

[Phaedon]

Agreed.

[kstarler]

Archereon wrote...

well, its sort of true.  Quantum fluctuations go crazy if you violate the conservation of energy, creating very strange effects.

The only known example of COE being broken in the universe is a singularity, the actual object in a black hole.  The reason black holes do that is because they divide by zero.  No, seriously, a black hole, or rather, the singularity, is a zero dimensional object, no volume at all, so that means its density is whatever ungodly high mass the black hole has divided by zero...

(hence the memetic image of dividing by zero creating a black hole.)

I do know that it is true. It was more the (what I'm assuming is) Hitchhiker's Guide reference.

[Canned Bullets]

BrotherShepherd wrote...

FuturePasTimeCE wrote...

because no one need the batarians? who ****ing needs galactic terrorists? how are the batarians considered a protagonist asset where as the system's alliance is suddenly the evil doers/antagonist? 
that's saying vader or the borgs in star wars or star trek are good guys and ****, and shephard and friends are evil and stuff.

i doubt the official batarian goverment supports the terrorists. 

In a way i'd liken the alliance moving into the treverse to an invasion, basicly batarians have been terraforming and preparing that part of space for who knows how long and here comes the alliance and just takes whatever comes into sight range, No negotiation or talks with batarian goverment for SHARED controll of the space or the possiblity of trade, No nothing, The examples you mentioned are highly inaccurate to the sitaution, 

The Batarians were robbed basicly of there space. 

The Batarian Hegemony most likely supports terrorists, like how the CIA trained and supplied the Mujahideen when the Soviets occupied Afghanistan. 

[Solaris Paradox]

Because Fox News would go on and on about how Mass Effect 3 is a thinly-veiled pro-Al-Qaida propaganda game, that's why.

EDIT: Serious answer, though--probably because they don't have targetting computers designed to ensure head-on collisions and because ships have people inside them. Wouldn't be surprised if it's happened as a spontaneous desperate maneuver in some battle or another, but for pre-planned battle tactics, it makes more sense to just have a really big gun.

Modifié par Solaris Paradox, 05 septembre 2010 - 10:41 .

[Redmaster]

One thing, if the weapon was accelerated at huge speed while a ezo core on the projectile was creating a low gravity field then switched it to high gravity as soon as it leaves the weapon, wouldn't that make a high speed, small mass projectile even more effective than a FTL ship?

because in one of the codex entries, all you need to do is switch the current around to swich the gravity from high to low.

anyway, not sure if this makes sense, still trying to get a grip on ME1 and 2 physics.