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@weatherman667

finally someone brings up the borg would get bodied by a fucking rail gun firing at relativistic speed

also the defiant does sucks

So one of my favourite sci-fi weapons is simply just extremely overpowered kinetic weaponry.

Think rail guns and that sort of thing that simply accelerate a projectile to incredible velocities. Of course the velocities of non-existent fictional weaponry are up to the author writing them. But for the sake of analogy, let’s say you have a weapon that can accelerate a 1kg projectile to 2997925m/s. This is 1% the speed of light in a vacuum.

Now to help put this insane speed into perspective. Let’s imagine we have our cannon at earth at are firing it at the moon. It would take this projectile just over 2 minutes to get to the moon. That is 384,400km traveled in 2 mins and 8 seconds.

For added context, the largest artillery cannon ever made, The Paris gun, could fire a projectile over 130km with a muzzle velocity of 1640m/s. It still took the projectile over 3 minutes to reach its target.

Now back to our 1kg projectile traveling at 1% the speed of light. When it impacts the moon. It will deliver 0.45x10^13 Joules of kinetic energy.

The Hiroshima nuclear bomb delivered approximately 1.8x10^13 joules of energy

This means that our 1kg projectile hits with the punch of 1/4 of a city destroying nuclear bomb.

It’s truly incredible how much energy you can store in something just by making it go really fast. Which coincidently, is also really helpful when you are wanting to deliver that energy to a target in as short a period as possible.

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Random Sci Fi OC: Keira

Keira Fuchs is a tall woman, 6'3", with bright hazel eyes and dirty blonde hair pulled back into a loose ponytail. Her face was a strange sort of beautiful, with a square jaw and strong chin, a heart-shaped face, full lips, and a small, almost button-like nose. In fact, out of everything, her nose stood out the most, as it just didn't seem to fit the rest of her strong features, even though it was cute. Her large eyes were protected by long, dark eyelashes, expressive thick eyebrows set above. Two strands of her hair framed her face, her small ears barely showing behind them. Her body was amazonian in structure, with hard muscles and little body fat. Seemingly despite the fact that she had an eight pack, and that her thighs were able to crush coconuts, the womans breasts were still the size of grapefruit, defying the rest of her bodies lack of body fat. Her arms ended in hands that seemed to loom, with long fingers and a wide spread. Her feet were equally large, though arched highly. She probably needed a lot of arch support. Her calves and thighs were sculpted and long, giving her a majority of her height. Her skin wasn't without flaws, such as freckles, and a large dark spot across her back, nor was it without piercings or even tattoo's; her face alone had three piercings, two in one eyebrow and a third in her right nostril, usually filled with rings for the eyebrow and a stud for the nose. Her ears had three each, all rings. She even had one in her naval, a stud. She only had three tattoo's; a butterfly on the side of her stomach, a pair of black wings on her right wrist, and a ring of fire around her neck. None of them would show in her armor or in a uniform, if she wore one.

Keira's armor was no joke; metalic, heavy, impossible to operate without training and being on. It weighed at least a ton, but it wasn't bulky; instead, it was seemingly made out of layered powered mesh, form fitting and powerful, two large wing shaped anti-gravity pod rocket wings jutting from the back. They merged seamlessly with the suit, and small cables went from the back of her neck to the suit. Her helmet was a full version, with a raisable visor that could keep air in. Unfortunately, there wasn't much room in the helmet for hair, so, bruises were common for those unused to it, or incapable of putting their hair up in the right way; a tight braid that spread hair out along the entirety of the skull, acting more like layed cornrows than anything. The boots of the Valkyrie suit were high heels, a design malfunction that no one corrected, the 'mesh' nearly skintight on the calves and thighs, though it thickened and became less revealing further up, tightening again around the waist. The suit only slightly hid the breasts, forming a more solid plate material in the area, though it was form fitting at the top. Another design 'malfunction' that no one bothered to fix. The suit worked with nanites who were permanently interlocked, allowing for both 'push' and 'pull' methods for each tiny machine, in every direction, allowing for anyone to be able to fit into the suit rather easily, as well as enhancing strength and dexterity. It was several inches thick at the thinnest, creating inner joints within itself to allow for free motion, never restricting the user. It's only trouble was that it required to be hooked up to the nervous system directly, or else it would not be able to respond in time to motions, simply slowing down the user.

Keira's main weapon is a bolt action open rail railgun, generally firing one ounce slugs at about one per second, depending on user. However, it's rails could spread and fire larger slugs than usual, though it required more power to do so; it could fire slugs as large as a cubic foot in volume, though it would be the only shot for an entire day. Still, such a shot would generally destroy whatever was in it's path for a mile. Even the one ounce slugs were fairly devastating, though, at close range, it tended to simply puncture through with almost no damage, relatively speaking, than at max range. Due to the nature of the velocity of it'sslugs, it was impossible to dodge without prior knowledge of the shot, even at ranges of up to a mile. It also didn't tend to move from wind, gravitational pulls, or pretty much anything else, for up to five miles.

Keira is laid back in the sort of way that could have been attributed to drugs on most people. Fortunately for her, that was just her normal personality, and she actually had no problems baring herself in the suit, even though she did have several words with the leading designer, an egg-head nerd who thought with things other than his brain sometimes. Still, she didn’t mind once he proved that it wasn’t a design flaw and wouldn’t impede her, risk her, or otherwise harm her on missions. Despite being in the military and apart of their Prototypes Testing Division, keira probably cracked the most jokes out of anyone,a nd wasn’t afraid of superior officers, often cracking jokes about them directly to their faces. This was probably why she was put into dangerous testing duty in a time of peace.

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