November 18th, 2002, 12:27 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Re: How do crystallurgy weapons work? -> component descriptions
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how do shard cannons skip armor?
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I think the idea is that the shards are so dense and moving so fast that they just punch straight through the armor, leaving too small a hole in the armor to sigificantly reduce its protection against other weapons. The damage to internals could be more due to explosive decompression than anything else.
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and crystalline armorworks?
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Probably some kind of piezoelectric effect. (There are certain kinds of crystals known to produce electricity while under pressure.)
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Why normal races cant reproduce the Energy Dampener, the Solar Panels or the Energy Transmitting Lense?
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Some mods make the racial techs researchable at a much higher cost for races without the attribute, but I forget offhand which mods they are.
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How does the energy dampener work anyway?
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That could just be an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) temporarily knocking out the ship's systems, or it could be something more exotic using some kind of wave interference pattern.
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