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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 511 Joined: 24-March 05 From: On a ledge between Heaven and Hell Member No.: 7,226  |
A critical botch with that would be painfully funny. |
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Dec 6 2005, 10:53 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 15-March 05 Member No.: 7,164 |
Gah! Keep that thing away from my cyberbits!! |
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Dec 7 2005, 11:08 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
So, basically, even though they're plausible, EMP's are banned because they destroy everything in their path.
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Dec 7 2005, 11:35 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98 |
When did it's being banned ever stop a shadowrunner from wanting something?
... hell, when did it's being banned ever not ENCOURAGE a shadowrunner to GET something? |
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Dec 8 2005, 12:02 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~valeri/EMP.html AN interesting bit on EMP's I'm still not convinced of the plausibility of a Grenade Sized EMP device, mostly due to power output problems. The Power Packs for the Ares MPIII Laser were only good for 10-15 shots of M level damage in SR3 and was significantly larger than a handgrenade, the ANDREWS System in Rigger 3 Required a Nuclear Powered Vessel for installation. The explosive powered EMP devices described in the linked paper are either much larger than a grenade using conventional explosives, and have to be air burst at a significant altitude for any sort of efficacy or Thermo-Nuclear devices, which are also much less effective when ground burst (I also believe that at ground level a One Megaton warhead was required for the EMP blast to exceed the range of the shockwave). |
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Dec 8 2005, 10:24 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
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Dec 9 2005, 10:59 AM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
two pages, same topic.
http://weblog.physorg.com/news3887.html http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8288 dont recall if any of them have been up on dumpshock before... point is that this will use photons (light) rather then electrons to trigger the fiber. resulting in both faster reactions, and in more protection against emp waves ;) |
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