byne wrote...
The diameter of the central ring of the Citadel is 7.2 kilometers. And that explosion is farther out than the ring would be.
I used this fun/horrifying tool to see what sort of bomb would have all the explosion contained within a 10 kilometer radius and it took a 100 kiloton nuke to get all the thermal damage stuff to be 10 kilometers across. I'm fairly certain you'd be burned by the heat even some distance away from the explosion though, so I figure its probly equivalent to a bomb even bigger. But I dont really know how bombs work to be honest.
But I'm sure Shepard is fine at the center of that. It just makes good sense.
Let's put that in perspective for everyone. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was about 15 kilotons (equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT). That estimate puts the blast Shepard survived at around 7 times that power.
Oh I agree, why wouldn't Shepard survive that? I surrender, IT opponents! It makes perfect sense that Shepard wouldn't be so intensely annihilated that there wouldn't even be ashes left.
OdanUrr wrote...
Let's keep explosions in space and our physics out of this. The two don't go very well hand in hand, I'm afraid.
No.
Iconoclaste wrote...
By the way, an explosion in vacuum has no pressure to fight against, so it expanses more than it would do on Earth. We cannot infer it's power from just the distance it travels. But that's not the point.
It shouldn't be, because we've seen enough space explosions in this series to know they're proportioned reasonably to how they would be on Earth.
Iconoclaste wrote...
The shockwave may have dislocated the Citadels arms, but it did not blow it to pieces. Even the center ring is still a ring. Lazy animation? Could be. But humans easily survive earthquakes that destroy buildings. They get shaken but they don't "break" because of that.
Holy ****, did you actually just compare an earthquake with an explosion measured in kilotons?!
byne wrote...
I still want to know why the chain reaction of all the Relays firing clearly begins on Earth with the Citadel, but the Galaxy Map shows the chain reaction as beginning in the (no longer existent) Viper Nebula.
Theres not even a Relay in that system.
I wonder if we'll find that out first, or why the warning sticker next to the vent the kid is in on Earth shows someone being struck in the head with a bolt, a sticker
not found anywhere else in the game.
Oh right, I forgot. The answer to everything is "Bioware is lazy." Man, it's getting late. I wish BW wasn't so lazy so it'd still be early.