MKR Step?

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That's Palladium Games thinking. Old-style Palladium at that--these days they'd just give it a mega-damage rating in the tens of thousands (cf. the Nazca Line creatures from Rifts South America).

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Please don't ever mention that atrocity on this forum again - I'd hate to moderate your post out of gut-level reaction

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Okay, so it's a bit speculative (a bit?) but I don't believe in letting Kevin Siembieda tell me what is and is not quantifiable...

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Actually, I'm not letting him tell me, I'm going by what I've seen of Macross Cannon type shots in several different animes, including Macross, Macross: DYRL, Macross II, Hades Project Zeorymer, and at least a couple others that I can't remember right now even though I can see the effects in the back of my head. And lets not forget A.D.A.M. from MZ23 Part II, which has to be the ultimate Omega Class Weapon ("A.D.A.M. stands for absolute disintegration of available mass")...
Any weapon that is capable of simply vaporizing multiple targets in or near direct path of fire, and firing out to a maximum effective range in excess of the visible horizon is not properly quantifiable within the same scale as the other weapons you mentioned. Most notably because at that order of magnitude something that is generally quantifiable is statisically insignificant at that point.

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The Guyver's "Mega-Smasher" is a particle beam cannon whose power is estimated to be 100 mw.

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I think you mean 100 MW not mw - the latter is a laser pointer
And even if we assume 10GW for the "Giga-Smasher", firing for a period of ~5 seconds, that's only 50GJ of energy - that's less total energy than 0.1% of the blast of the bomb that was dropped at Hiroshima (from the wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaton, 1 MT = 4.2 PJ = 4.2 Million GJ). I think it's safe to say that a Macross Cannon is considerably bigger than the Hiroshima bomb in total energy output, just from the damage it did.
Now I'm not saying that the Giga-Smasher isn't an Omega Class Weapon, just that OCWs are in a class by themselves. I'll do a little more research to find specs on the ships vaporized in "Booby Trap" and see if I can come up with a better energy figure to vaporize them. Congratulations, you've caught me in a "Physics is Phun!" mood
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