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[Vortex13]

Nukes and kinetic impactors are so 'mundane' in a universe where we can have intergalactic death rays. 

 

Set up some infrastructure to direct this phenomenon, and you could launch planet devastating artillery barrages from another galaxy.

[capn233]

You mean like mix that slug up with some eezo, watch the mass go down and then accelerate it? Maybe, but then again eezo and the technology required to utilize aren't cheap either. Also if the mass goes down you'd need to increase the speed by a factor of sqrt(2) to get the same impact. Is that how mass accelerators in ME work BTW?

 

You don't mix the slug with eezo.  The mass accelerator has a mass effect field generator that lowers projectile mass while it is being accelerated to allow it to reach much greater speeds than otherwise would be possible.  In general, mass effect fields are cheap enough that they are nearly ubiquitous in ME universe.  All vehicles, armors, small arms and large weapons have mass effect fields of some sort.  Don't know the relative cost for creating a field for a dreadnoughts main gun relative to creating the field that allows the ship to go FTL, but the latter is dealing with much more mass at much faster velocity.

 

Yea, but nuclear pulse propulsion was considered not long ago. Don't ask how it works in space but it seems to be somehow feasible.

 

Orion.  It is like a shaped charge, part of the pulse unit case becomes the propellant when it is turned into plasma.  The plasma is reflected off the pusher plate of the spacecraft, which is how you get the push.

[in it for the lolz]

so long as we can strap Liara to said nuke, then yes.

[I Am Robot]

You don't mix the slug with eezo.  The mass accelerator has a mass effect field generator that lowers projectile mass while it is being accelerated to allow it to reach much greater speeds than otherwise would be possible.  In general, mass effect fields are cheap enough that they are nearly ubiquitous in ME universe.  All vehicles, armors, small arms and large weapons have mass effect fields of some sort.  Don't know the relative cost for creating a field for a dreadnoughts main gun relative to creating the field that allows the ship to go FTL, but the latter is dealing with much more mass at much faster velocity.

 

 

The mass effect field is generated by an eezo engine right? That's what I was referring to, I was just trying to be cool and informal about it. Do small arms also use mass effect fields? So the thermal clips are actually eezo canisters?

[Catastrophy]

You don't mix the slug with eezo.  The mass accelerator has a mass effect field generator that lowers projectile mass while it is being accelerated to allow it to reach much greater speeds than otherwise would be possible.  In general, mass effect fields are cheap enough that they are nearly ubiquitous in ME universe.  All vehicles, armors, small arms and large weapons have mass effect fields of some sort.  Don't know the relative cost for creating a field for a dreadnoughts main gun relative to creating the field that allows the ship to go FTL, but the latter is dealing with much more mass at much faster velocity.

 

 

Orion.  It is like a shaped charge, part of the pulse unit case becomes the propellant when it is turned into plasma.  The plasma is reflected off the pusher plate of the spacecraft, which is how you get the push.

It doesn't sound like an efficient type of engine, lol.

[AlanC9]

It isn't. Most forms of rocketry aren't efficient. But if you're willing to throw away a lot of power, you can move stuff.

[Quarian Master Race]

good question. Biower could learn a lot from other sci-fi franchises.