Trailers wrote:Back to kinetic kill munitions, I think it's silly when anyone suggests they can accelerate anything of significant mass (Re: Not a subatomic particle) to within a crab fart of light speed on something as compact as a space ship. Yeah sure, I know, free-form RP all points are valid, but do you guys consider how much energy it would take to contain and accelerate something the size of a grain of sand to the speed of light? I mean I'm not saying it couldn't be done but there is a lot of handwavium involved in accelerating a projectile to .99c. I'm just saying when I use k-kill tech, my shit is accelerated to about 2-3% lightspeed, tops. Even ships over a km long wouldn't have an acceleration ladder capable of more (Handwavium sold seperately), not to mention the stupendously large reactors needed for power of an Admiral Ackbar magnitude.
RKVs really only begin at .85 c or so. Anything less is truly criminal.
Just strap a giant antimatter drive onto a crowbar, point at planet. RKVs are the nukes of FT and shouldn't be thrown around lightly tbh.