Quote:That comes out to, assuming you use a spherical 1998 Buick Syklark of uniform density.... *does math* 145 megatons. Not bad, all things considered.
Do you realise how much damage a Buick Skylark will do if it smashes into something at .1c? That's one percent of LIGHTSPEED. That's 29,979,245 meters per second. Ye gods.
What was it Nyrath said? "Friends don't let friends use reactionless drives in their universe"?
Oh, and that's ten percent of lightspeed.
Quote:Actually we don't have any nukes, just kinetic energy weapons. Big difference.
Now, I can understand if you want to ignore this for the purpose of genre emulation. But if you're so concerned with weaponized handwave then the problem isn't nukes, since you already have thousands of them in the setting already.
More seriously, the weaponized handwavium restrictions aren't about stopping kinetic weapons, they're in place to stop people from building Wave Motion Guns, Reflex Cannons, Death Star lasers, widgets that can cast Dragon Slave and other in-genre methods of obliterating the enemy with corcuscating beams of lambent force.---
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