Guy Gardener wrote:
R. Star wrote:
Guy Gardener wrote:
This is what I imagine to be in a torpedo casing normally.
1. Explosives.
2. A Warp drive.
3. An Impulse Drive
4, Fuel for the Engine.
5. A navigation system.
6. Remote Subspace failsafes.
7. Navigation shields.
What do you believe that they should extract to fit the corpse and the torpedo will still be space worthy?
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Firing torpedoes at warp always made me scratch my head.... if they're moving faster than light and fire a projectile weapon... shouldn't they fly into their own torpedo... reverse firing would work, but not forward firing. |
You're on the roof of a train moving east, and there's another train on the opposing track moving west towards you, you have a mortar and you have to fire a grenade at a teacup in the dining cart of the approaching train.
That may seem difficult but now imagine that both trains were switching velocities between full impulse (1/4 the speed of light) to any warp speed ranging from dozens of times the speed of light to thousands of times the speed of light... And they're now separated by a distance of 40 thousand kilometres.
Torpedoes are not cannon balls.
They have engines.
Warp drive and impulse drive.
It's how they can hit a moving target 40 thousand kilometres away with incredible accuracy. |
Engines sure... but warp? If they do they just use them in a mindnumbingly dumb manner then. Screw the explosive if that torpedo can accelerate past warp 9, impact force alone would destroy a stationary target.
Though the fact we -see- the torpedoes sort of negates this.